Posted on 06/18/2012 7:14:05 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.
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Oh, I’m sure the i5 could handle what the Honeywell 500 did. Maybe not what a cluster of 3 VAX Alphas could do 15 years back, but my point was that it couldn’t handle it under the Windows OS, which is a single user OS (I do know that others can log in to my box), that can barely handle my typing and a couple of virus and malware scans going simultaneously. We’re talking about the CPU power, storage, yes, but also about the capabilities of the operating system. I suppose that a Mac OS being based on UNIX can match some of the older Sun, DEC minis.
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