Showing posts with label top500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top500. Show all posts
18 November 2010

Microsoft: "Linux at the End of its Life Cycle"

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Regular readers of this blog will know that I've tracked the rather painful history of attempts to increase the deployment of free soft...
15 November 2010

Microsoft: Super - But Not Quite Super Enough

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Once upon a time, the Netcraft Web server market share was reported upon eagerly every month for the fact that it showed open source soundly...
01 June 2010

GNU/Linux *Does* Scale – and How

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As everyone knows, GNU/Linux grew up as a project to create a completely free alternative to Unix. Key parts were written by Richard Stallma...
31 December 2009

What Lies at the Heart of "Avatar"?

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If nothing else, "Avatar" is a computational tour-de-force. Here are some details of the kit they used: It takes a lot of data c...
12 October 2009

Windows Does Not Scale

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Who's afraid of the data deluge ? Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will so...
07 October 2009

Meet Microsoft, the Delusional

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This is hilarious : Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. He said Bing...
14 July 2009

I Fear Microsoft Geeks Bearing Gifts...

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Look, those nice people at Microsoft Research are saving science from its data deluge: Addressing an audience of prominent academic researc...
23 June 2009

GNU/Linux Tops TOP500 Supercomputers Again

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The fact that GNU/Linux totally dominates the top 500 supercomputing list is hardly news, but the fact that it has managed to *increase* its...
31 January 2007

Steve Ballmer on Open Source

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I am always amused - and slightly annoyed - that so much space is devoted to the wit and wisdom of Steve Ballmer, because basically he has n...
10 January 2007

The Other Thunderbird

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No, not that one , this one : Sandia National Laboratories’ 8960-processor Thunderbird Linux cluster, developed in collaboration with Dell, ...
14 November 2006

Top500 Supercomputers: Guess Who's Top?

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The Top500 Supercomputer list is always fun, not least because it shows us where we will all be in a few years' time. There are all so...
17 July 2006

The Other GNU/Linux

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Think of GNU/Linux and you probably think of servers, maybe with a smidgeon of desktop thrown in for good measure. In fact, the domain wher...