[SFS] Surprising news (to me) today
Chris Fedde
chris@fedde.us
Mon, 2 Jun 2014 22:34:07 -0600
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take a look at the top500 site to get a feel for the state of the art:
http://www.top500.org/
It's surprising how much COTS (commercial off the shelf) stuff goes into
most of these systems.
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:16 AM, David L. Willson <dlwillson@sofree.us>
wrote:
> This surprises me.
>
> I expected the world's fastest supercomputer to run a
> home-grown/specialized Linux (not Ubuntu).
>
> Also, it *runs* openstack; it doesn't run *on* openstack. Big difference.
>
>
> http://ostatic.com/blog/the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-runs-on-ubuntu-and-openstack
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<div dir=3D"ltr">take a look at the top500 site to get a feel for the state=
of the art:=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.top500.org/">http://www.top500.org/=
</a><div>It's surprising how much COTS (commercial off the shelf) stuff=
goes into most of these systems.</div>
</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon,=
Jun 2, 2014 at 11:16 AM, David L. Willson <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D=
"mailto:dlwillson@sofree.us" target=3D"_blank">dlwillson@sofree.us</a>><=
/span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This surprises me.<br>
<br>
I expected the world's fastest supercomputer to run a home-grown/specia=
lized Linux (not Ubuntu).<br>
<br>
Also, it *runs* openstack; it doesn't run *on* openstack. Big differenc=
e.<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"http://ostatic.com/blog/the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-runs-on=
-ubuntu-and-openstack" target=3D"_blank">http://ostatic.com/blog/the-worlds=
-fastest-supercomputer-runs-on-ubuntu-and-openstack</a><br>
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