[plug] Top 500 supercomputers

[Garry]

Found this interesting..

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000048640,20275659,00.htm

including:

" Big Blue continues to lead when it comes to the largest fraction of the total computing horsepower. Of the total ability of 375 trillion calculations per second, or teraflops, IBM machines account for 34 percent. More than a tenth of the total comes from the Japanese Earth Simulator, a behemoth with a 36 teraflop rating."

and:

"A Windows system has made a rare appearance. This cluster of Dell Computer servers with 384 Xeon processors built at the Cornell Theory Center ranked No. 50."

The numbers are staggering. Just makes me wonder how quickly the Japanese Earth Simulator could compile a kernel.. 

8^)==

Garry.