Linux drives the world’s fastest computer
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Roadrunner running on Linux, breaks a modest threshold of 1,000 trillion calculations per second on Monday.
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As news spreads of the incredible new threshold performed by IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer (actually over 3,456 tri-blade servers), it seems many of the stories are missing a key ingredient.
The Roadrunner supercomputer broke through one of the absolute world records for computer processing power when it performed one Petaflop or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Not a trifling achievement considering that just a decade ago reaching the billion mark was a record.
But perhaps most notable, and prominently absent from news stories and the AP wire reviews is the question of what runs this powerful hardware. Few seem to be taking a good hard look at the key ingredient that drives the computing capabilities of ... Full Story |
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