OT: (on or of, whatever you fancy) Roadrunner breaks petaflop barrier

Military Supercomputer Sets Record:

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This is a nice paper describng some aspects:

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Jan Panteltje
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Jan Panteltje wrote in news:g2ipi5$1vu$ snipped-for-privacy@news.datemas.de:

Three megawatts, too--and that's not including the air conditioning bill.

--Damon

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Damon Hill

On a sunny day (Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:01:09 -0500) it happened Damon Hill wrote in :

If they are nice to the Navy, they could perhaps plug it into a nuclear submarine power plant :-)

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Jan Panteltje

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Old news. Was in EE Times and various Linux magazines more than two weeks ago.

It is Cell based. Not the cheaper, PS3 based clusters like the college professors are using... the full on dual Cell blades by IBM with 1GB RAM per core. Cells are Watt stingy too... Still, the damned thing burns a HUGE amount of power. Probably the most directed use of the electron ever.

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ItsASecretDummy

Still puts it in the top 5 on the green500 list.

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Dennis

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