Number 3 computer in the world is a Linux box

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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 ;)

Either that, or some NSA employee is playing a *FAST* game of solitaire! 
  ;-)

> 
> The Lustre cluster filesystem used on #3 looks good:
> 
> http://www.lustre.org/
> 
> Rob
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