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Toaster · 07-02-2001, 10:39 AM

Hi folks,
A site which shows the top 500 of the most powerful supercomputer sites in the world. Of course, these are Linux sites, Micky$oft is nowhere to be found.
One site, in antarctica, boasts 1500 nodes of rack mounted Compaq servers of modest configuration. These are "parallel processing arrays" meaning the complete node is dedicated to one task. It would take 35 Cray1 supercomputers to duplicate this amount of processor power. These systems do many things from Geological, weather forcasting and financial forcasting.
I hope you find this interesting.

http://www.top500.org

07-02-2001, 10:39 AM	#1
Toaster Member (13 bit) Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Now in Phoenix, AZ. Where next? Only 8 states left to see. Posts: 4,661	Top 500 superComputers in the world site. Hi folks, A site which shows the top 500 of the most powerful supercomputer sites in the world. Of course, these are Linux sites, Micky$oft is nowhere to be found. One site, in antarctica, boasts 1500 nodes of rack mounted Compaq servers of modest configuration. These are "parallel processing arrays" meaning the complete node is dedicated to one task. It would take 35 Cray1 supercomputers to duplicate this amount of processor power. These systems do many things from Geological, weather forcasting and financial forcasting. I hope you find this interesting. http://www.top500.org __________________ 2 goldfish were discussing Mythology. The discussion ended when a goldfish replied: "There MUST be a God, who changes the water?"