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nessuno

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Nov 16, 2009, 12:55:33 PM11/16/09
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<Quote>
The fall edition of the list was announced this morning at the SC09
supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon. The single biggest
transition in the list is the move to quad-core - and in some notable
cases, six-core - processors inside supercomputing systems. And most
of the machines on the list now run Linux with x64 processors.
</Quote>

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/top500_supers_nov_2009/

Mr. Majestic

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Nov 16, 2009, 1:03:09 PM11/16/09
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Damn, he is not bashing MS? He must have gotten out of the wrong side of
the bed today.

bbgruff

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Nov 16, 2009, 2:08:45 PM11/16/09
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nessuno wrote:

OS Count Share

Linux 446 89.20 %
Windows 5 1.00 %
Unix 25 5.00 %
BSD Based 1 0.20 %
Mixed 23 4.60 %

Totals 500 100.00 %

No further comment needed?

Wintrolls Lie

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Nov 16, 2009, 2:14:20 PM11/16/09
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Just one:

"Gates also announced that, as part of the company’s steps toward
realizing this vision, Microsoft is funding joint research projects at 10
academic centers worldwide and has released the beta 2 version of
Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft’s first product offering
for high-performance computing."

<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>

bbgruff

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Nov 16, 2009, 2:56:56 PM11/16/09
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Wintrolls Lie wrote:

Ah - thanks for the link.
I went to
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx

It seems to be dated November 15, 2005?
That being the case, presumably you are telling me that Linux won't last
long now in the Super-Computer OS field, and that Windows will be taking
over soon? :-)

Hadron

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Nov 16, 2009, 2:58:45 PM11/16/09
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bbgruff <bbg...@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

In another post 7" screens on substandard HW is more than anyone needs
and is really cheap and .... oh fuck! It's running Windows CE. ROTFLM!
Classic. Mind you CE is a heap of junk.

Mr. Majestic

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Nov 16, 2009, 4:22:33 PM11/16/09
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Can someone explain what the hell bbgruff and this moron Wintrolls Lie
are talking about?

Neither one of those jackasses know what clustered computing, mirroring
of fail-over is about and have no clue about it in enterprise level
computing infrastructures, none whatsoever.

Hadron

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Nov 16, 2009, 4:24:13 PM11/16/09
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"Mr. Majestic" <Maje...@Majestic1.com> writes:


They are giving each other a reach around because despite running
machines they scavenged from a dumpster diving session they get a woody
when thinking of something like WOPR from War Games running Linux and
sitting there in a really big cellar saying in a high pitched synth
voice "Greeting Wintrolls Lie - Would you lie to play a game?".

It's all very sad.

Terry Porter

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Nov 16, 2009, 4:25:10 PM11/16/09
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Begone windows sock!

PLONK!


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Mr. Majestic

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Nov 16, 2009, 4:31:26 PM11/16/09
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Terry Porter wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:03:09 -0500, Mr. Majestic wrote:
>
>> nessuno wrote:
>>> <Quote>
>>> The fall edition of the list was announced this morning at the SC09
>>> supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon. The single biggest
>>> transition in the list is the move to quad-core - and in some notable
>>> cases, six-core - processors inside supercomputing systems. And most of
>>> the machines on the list now run Linux with x64 processors. </Quote>
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/top500_supers_nov_2009/
>> Damn, he is not bashing MS? He must have gotten out of the wrong side of
>> the bed today.
>
> Begone windows sock!
>
> PLONK!

That's all you're good for anyway is a plonk-and-run. What else is new
from Ben Hur Porter?

OLAY!

JEDIDIAH

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Nov 16, 2009, 5:51:41 PM11/16/09
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...repeating a lie won't make it any more true.

>
>
> They are giving each other a reach around because despite running
> machines they scavenged from a dumpster diving session they get a woody
> when thinking of something like WOPR from War Games running Linux and
> sitting there in a really big cellar saying in a high pitched synth
> voice "Greeting Wintrolls Lie - Would you lie to play a game?".
>
> It's all very sad.

Yes you are.

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arbitrarily assigned.

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Nov 16, 2009, 6:06:40 PM11/16/09
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____/ Wintrolls Lie on Monday 16 Nov 2009 19:14 : \____

Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave it
away for free or something. What a fail.

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Mr. Majestic

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Nov 16, 2009, 6:37:38 PM11/16/09
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>> for high-performance computing."
>>
>> <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>
>
> Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave it
> away for free or something. What a fail.
>

Does this moron know what clustered SQL servers are about running on Win
2k3 servers, Win 2k8 servers or Win 7 servers?

Does he know what distributed computing is about, using COM+ or .NET
Remoting?

Schestowitz is some kind of an idiot talking out the side of his head.

Justin

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Nov 17, 2009, 12:12:14 AM11/17/09
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you had me worried! Your nephew Joel was running around without you. I
was thinking maybe you had a stroke or something.
How did your colonoscopy go?
Are they renewing your AARP membership?

William Poaster

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Nov 17, 2009, 6:07:21 AM11/17/09
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Above the wailing & moaning of the trolls, Justin was heard to say:

"References: earthlink.com" It's probably the dumb Duh-Inane 'The Bee'
Arnold troll again.

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Mr. Majestic

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Nov 17, 2009, 9:24:29 AM11/17/09
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Justin wrote:

>>
>> That's all you're good for anyway is a plonk-and-run. What else is new
>> from Ben Hur Porter?
>>
>> OLAY!
>
>
> you had me worried!


Worried about what boy? I didn't know you cared junior. Did you learn
anything new in school you little wet behind the ears clown? How about
your latest dreams/plans of shooting up a school? How is that going,
stupid?

JEDIDIAH

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Nov 17, 2009, 11:23:35 AM11/17/09
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On 2009-11-16, Mr. Majestic <Maje...@Majestic2.com> wrote:
>
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>> for high-performance computing."
>>>
>>> <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>
>>
>> Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave it
>> away for free or something. What a fail.
>>
>
> Does this moron know what clustered SQL servers are about running on Win
> 2k3 servers, Win 2k8 servers or Win 7 servers?

...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.

That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.

>
> Does he know what distributed computing is about, using COM+ or .NET
> Remoting?
>
> Schestowitz is some kind of an idiot talking out the side of his head.

Chris Ahlstrom

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Nov 17, 2009, 12:20:32 PM11/17/09
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JEDIDIAH pulled this Usenet boner:

> On 2009-11-16, Mr. Majestic <Maje...@Majestic2.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>
>>>
>>> Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave it
>>> away for free or something. What a fail.
>>
>> Does this moron know what clustered SQL servers are about running on Win
>> 2k3 servers, Win 2k8 servers or Win 7 servers?

Bwahahahaha.

> ...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.

Exactly. Microsoft's original clustering implementation was (and is) a
complete misnomer, a marketing lie. It is failover. In no way is it a way
to distribute the computing load.

> That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
> do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.

And even Microsoft failover doesn't behave as advertised. The notification
for a resource recovery would come in and... you still had to wait a few
seconds before you could actually access the resource.

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Mr. Majestic

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Nov 17, 2009, 4:55:43 PM11/17/09
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JEDIDIAH wrote:

>
> ...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.
>
> That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
> do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.

You dumb *clown* home user, you know nothing about this. So don't
pretend that you do idiot.

You go cluster a piece of toast, a cup of coffee, and sweep your floors.
You cluster that.

Mr. Majestic

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Nov 17, 2009, 5:00:30 PM11/17/09
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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>
> And even Microsoft failover doesn't behave as advertised. The notification
> for a resource recovery would come in and... you still had to wait a few
> seconds before you could actually access the resource.
>


Idiot, how to do you know? You have never seen a Win 2k3 server running
SQL server fail over in a sever cluster.

High Plains Thumper

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Nov 17, 2009, 8:11:19 PM11/17/09
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JEDIDIAH wrote:
> Hadron wrote:

>> Mr. Majestic (The Bee nymshifter) writes:
>>
>>> Neither one of those jackasses know what clustered computing,
>>> mirroring of fail-over is about and have no clue about it in
>>> enterprise level computing infrastructures, none whatsoever.
>
> ...repeating a lie won't make it any more true.

Thanks. As a result my kill filter on The Bee is now updated.

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Roy Schestowitz

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Nov 17, 2009, 8:29:26 PM11/17/09
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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 17 Nov 2009 17:20 : \____

> JEDIDIAH pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> On 2009-11-16, Mr. Majestic <Maje...@Majestic2.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>
>>>>
>>>> Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave
>>>> it away for free or something. What a fail.
>>>
>>> Does this moron know what clustered SQL servers are about running on Win
>>> 2k3 servers, Win 2k8 servers or Win 7 servers?
>
> Bwahahahaha.
>
>> ...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.
>
> Exactly. Microsoft's original clustering implementation was (and is) a
> complete misnomer, a marketing lie. It is failover. In no way is it a way
> to distribute the computing load.
>
>> That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
>> do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.
>
> And even Microsoft failover doesn't behave as advertised. The notification
> for a resource recovery would come in and... you still had to wait a few
> seconds before you could actually access the resource.

3 letters: L S E.

:-)

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Chris Ahlstrom

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Nov 18, 2009, 7:29:26 AM11/18/09
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Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:

> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 17 Nov 2009 17:20 : \____
>

>> And even Microsoft failover doesn't behave as advertised. The notification
>> for a resource recovery would come in and... you still had to wait a few
>> seconds before you could actually access the resource.
>
> 3 letters: L S E.

Now that *was* a cluster... of the fsck sort.

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Roy Schestowitz

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> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 17 Nov 2009 17:20 : \____
>>
>>> And even Microsoft failover doesn't behave as advertised. The notification
>>> for a resource recovery would come in and... you still had to wait a few
>>> seconds before you could actually access the resource.
>>
>> 3 letters: L S E.
>
> Now that *was* a cluster... of the fsck sort.

Furse should not resign, she should be sacked

,----[ Quote ]
| Comment The farce of the London Stock Exchange not only crashing but failing
| to get its systems up and running again should surprise no one.
|
| Well, no one except LSE boss Clara Furse, who demonstrates little
| understanding that technology is crucial to her business.
|
| I’ve worked for members of the London Stock Exchange and everyone agrees she
| is world-class at corporate presentations, but the evidence that she can
| actually run things is rather harder to come by.
|
| No one expects her to write FIX handlers, or optimise an order-matching
| engine, but her yes-men simply were not in the position to make any
| intelligent decisions on technology, if we look at the board of the LSE.
|
| Do we see anything that even looks like experience in technology? No. We see
| three from the media, and of course accountancy, but no mention of
| technology.
|
| To be sure, the CIO (not on the board) is ex-Accenture man David Lester. To a
| Reg reader, Accenture will be associated in the context of technology with
| the words “screw up”, “late”, and “over budget”. Clara Furse cannot be held
| responsible for problems with Cisco switches - one of the suggested
| culprits - but she is absolutely in the frame for the choice of senior
| management and strategic vendors.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/furse_lse_comment/

London Stock Exchange in talks to buy Turquoise Trading technology

,----[ Quote ]
| Last month, the LSE announced it will acquire Sri Lankan
| trading firm Millennium IT for £18 million, replacing its
| Accenture built, Microsoft .Net-based TradElect platform.
| The new platform is understood to be based on Linux.
`----

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/it-organisation/news/index.cfm?newsid=16883


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JEDIDIAH

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Nov 18, 2009, 10:07:01 AM11/18/09
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On 2009-11-17, Mr. Majestic <Maje...@Majestic2.com> wrote:
>
>
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>>
>> ...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.
>>
>> That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
>> do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.
>
> You dumb *clown* home user, you know nothing about this. So don't
> pretend that you do idiot.

Is this really the best you can do. You really must live in your
mother's basement.

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Mr. Majestic

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Nov 18, 2009, 1:17:13 PM11/18/09
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JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2009-11-17, Mr. Majestic <Maje...@Majestic2.com> wrote:
>>
>> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> ...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.
>>>
>>> That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
>>> do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.
>> You dumb *clown* home user, you know nothing about this. So don't
>> pretend that you do idiot.
>
> Is this really the best you can do. You really must live in your
> mother's basement.
>

Only worthless lip service *clown* such as yourself would comeback weak
like this.

You are pitiful.

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