Barcelona Boasts EU's Top Supercomputer

Roy Culley

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Apr 13, 2005, 8:57:05 AM4/13/05

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Europe's fastest supercomputer -- an IBM (NYSE: IBM) that can make
40 trillion calculations per second -- booted up for the first time
yesterday at a research center in Barcelona.

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Spain's MareNostrum was made entirely with components available on
the open market, such as conventional blade servers, and uses a
Linux operating system.

Mark Kent

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Apr 13, 2005, 10:18:44 AM4/13/05

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Roy Culley <r...@nodomain.none> espoused:

I wonder what might happen if linux had really good hardware support ;-)

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Hurray for Peter Pumpkinhead

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Apr 13, 2005, 10:57:38 AM4/13/05

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So, sorry, that computer is from Barcelona.

Linønut

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Apr 13, 2005, 11:39:37 AM4/13/05

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Is that a Fawlty Towers reference?

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Peter Köhlmann

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Apr 13, 2005, 12:03:33 PM4/13/05

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begin virus.scr Linønut wrote:

No, thats a Bailo remark. As usual, he does not understand what the thread
is about

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez

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Apr 13, 2005, 2:41:11 PM4/13/05

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Today I can hardly believe we have such a monster here :-)

Regards.

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Ramon F Herrera

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Apr 13, 2005, 5:57:47 PM4/13/05

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Jose Maria:

I sat on IBM's presentation of that supercomputer in the recent Linux
expo here in Boston. The announcement was being made the next day in
Barcelona but they showed us a 'hush-hush' sneak video of the project.
They used a former -and really beautiful- chapel to house all the
circuitry. They also praised the Spanish technicians for their
detailed craftmanship -almost medieval- work in cabling and everything
else.

The whole thing looks awesome.

-Ramon F Herrera

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez

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Apr 14, 2005, 3:45:10 AM4/14/05

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You are lucky. I have some friends that probably can let me
give it a look someday.

> -Ramon F Herrera

Mark Kent

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Apr 14, 2005, 8:41:40 AM4/14/05

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Linųnut <linųn...@bone.com> espoused:

But meeesta fawwlteee...

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