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July 28, 2004
10240 Processors!
Slashdot posted a story today about a planned NASA cluster of 20 SGI Altix 3000s, each of which has 512 processor. Thats 10240 processors total, running only 20 system images. Pretty amazing stuff. I get to use one of those 512 processor machines at work sometimes and it is ridiculously fast. Imagine, if you will, "make -j1024 client.mk build"... (no I haven't actually tried that - yet)
I'm been really busy studying the Linux VM system lately and haven't had much time for Mozilla.org stuff. I'll be back to working on that in about a week. A bug in my Camino tooltips patch was found and it has been driving me crazy, so perhaps this break for another project is good.
Posted by josh at July 28, 2004 9:18 PM
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I used to work with Octane SGI machines, I love them. I'm always bit@#&*g at work becuase now we use wintel, we got virus, spyware, blue screens of dead... hopefuly, SGI will release a Linux -ItaniumŪ2 workstation based on the Altix server, something that will kill longhorn for good ...
Posted by: cesar at August 1, 2004 3:55 PM