Number 3 computer in the world is a Linux box

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Byron Sonne wrote:

> > http://www.top500.org/
>
> It's kinda freaky how far ahead that Japanese Earth Simulator is... I
> suspect what they're really doing with it is rendering anime porn.

;)

I guess sites nominate their supercomputers for testing & inclusion in
the list.  I wonder how many powerful supercomputers are _not_ included in
the list.  Maybe the NSA has a supercomputer rendering anami porn at 10x
time speed of the Earth Simulator ;)

The Lustre cluster filesystem used on #3 looks good:

http://www.lustre.org/

Rob
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