[ShadowAce]

I was a member of the team that installed #17 at ARL this year.

[Cicero]

Sun says they expect to beat IBM with a 1.7 petaflop computer, soon to be released:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Sun_We_Can_Build_a_Faster_Supercomputer_Than_IBM/1182889189

Of course it’s not officially out yet, and we haven’t seen what IBM will do next.

Something a bit awkward sounding about “petaflop” to my ear.

[Mr. K]

Does it come with Windows Vista?

[Golden Eagle]

This is simply false, of course. HP has more supercomputers on the list than IBM, with IBM’s overall share dropping from 47 percent to 38 percent since the last report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070627/tc_pcworld/133515

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... I had the opportunity to meet Seymour Cray. Great fellow.

[avacado]

Anyone have more specific information on these winners? For instance, how many clusters running and how many nodes per cluster?

I do software development for seismic processing and we run 100s of clusters with 1000s of nodes in parallel, so I am wondering what these winning computers are configured as? There’s no “wow” factor for me without that info. If you run enough computers in parallel you can achieve practically anything you want.