Comments on: A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:39:05 +0000

@pallgone: The focus of the article is on hardware, that’s why there isn’t any information on the OS.

By: pallgone

pallgone — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:35:05 +0000

So another supercomputer article without any reference to the operating system. If it would run Windows I bet you would let us know all over the place.

And no, it doesn’t run a “stripped down version of Linux” but “SuSE Linux Enterprise (SLES 10)”

91% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Linux today (www.top500.org)

By: James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil

James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:59:17 +0000

The pictures of them pulling cables reminds me of the days when I worked for IBM and the 360 Model 65 Computers. They were the top of the line in 1970 and took up about as much room as this one. But my 7 y/o Mac laptop is much more powerful than the 360/65.

Furthermore, I have a 1.5 TB external hard drive for my desktop iMac. That little drive contains more disk storage than existed in the entire world in 1968, the year I started with IBM.

It makes me eager to see what the next ten years will bring.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:50:35 +0000

So we are back to the massive computers in huge rooms. We will be talking about this in the future just like we talk about the first computers from the past.

By: A look at the fastest supercomputer in the world | Royal Pingdom

A look at the fastest supercomputer in the world | Royal Pingdom — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:49:45 +0000

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By: Oystein

Oystein — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:07:19 +0000

The BlueGene (L and P) was actually upgraded a couple of times. Increased the speed 700 to 850 if remember correctly, and also double the ram from 500MB to 1GB and then to 2GB.

The cooling is actually just regular server room cooling. (Most other super computers need liquid cooling. Check out the Earth simulator…) The cpu speed was limited for cooling purposes.

The blueGene is not very good for applications like SETI@Home since SETI@HOME is embarrassingly parallel and requires no inter-processor communication during processing. BlueGene is designed with a very fast network that makes it more suitable for more complex applications.

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:59:06 +0000

What is the purpose of this super fast computer, It also seems like the ENIAC as someone said, but I think this doesn’t fit in the USS Enterprise to control telet ransportation, so keep working IBM it’s got to be smaller.

Cual es el proposito de esta super computadora, Tambien me parece como la ENIAC como alguien dijo antes, pero no creo que quepa en el USS Enterprise para controlar la teletransportación, asi que sigan trabajando Señores de IBM, tiene que ser mas Pequeña.

By: steven

steven — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:00:17 +0000

i would like to play a game of chess against this machine.

By: nathan

nathan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:12:23 +0000

wow….IBM server rules..

By: Microsoft Guy

Microsoft Guy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:22:11 +0000

Wow, great stuff! This is all very interesting. It seems like this computer must suck up thousands of kilowatts of power.