World's fastest computer - 1 petaflop - running Linux

IBM's newly unveiled Roadrunner supercomputer became the first to achieve 1.6 petaflops and is officially the world's fastest supercomputer. It runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux on almost 7000 AMD Opteron dual-core CPUs and 13,000 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs. It's no laptop - it covers 1,100 square meters.

Anyone want to run Quake 4 on an IMAX screen?

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I think with that kind of

I think with that kind of power you could run an entire LAN party of Quake 4's on several IMAX screens....

/me drools

Keith Vassallo
Secretary,
Malta Linux User Group

mm, ma pc at home pwns it u

mm, ma pc at home pwns it u hekk

 

M :O