I was a member of the team that installed #17 at ARL this year.
I was a member of the team that installed #17 at ARL this year.
Wow. Looking back 10 years, #1 had just topped one teraflop.
Wow! It seems like yesterday when the 1 teraflop ceiling was shattered - now it’s over 280! Just staggering to contemplate. What I find even more astonishing is the statement, “The average age of a system in the Top500 list is only 1 year and 2 months.”
Is it possible the capacity limit is growing that rapidly or are these units just suffering a proportionally short life span?
I am excited by the rapid increase in capacity and performance and am looking forward to the day when AI systems become smarter than us despite their linear limitations. By then, I hope, we will have the means of linking our “holistic” brains with theirs and get the best of both worlds ...
We have a few WinTel (Windows/Intel) servers that run a several non mission critical apps and they require manpower just to keep them running. With our IBM System i we focus on the business of the Company not just keeping a system available.
Congrats. I'll bet that was interesting work.
How many of the top 500 are some variant of Unix, and how many are some version of windows?
“I was a member of the team that installed #17 at ARL this year.”
Thank God for conservative Linux/Unix users. With all of the Stallmanites out there, I’d go mad without you guys.