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Thursday, November 20, 2003
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Making a case for Efficient Supercomputing: "A supercomputer evokes images of "big iron" and speed; it is the Formula 1 racecar of computing. As we venture forth into the new millennium, however, I argue that efficiency, reliability, and availability will become the dominant issues by the end of this decade, not only for supercomputing, but also for computing in general."
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NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer: "NASA plans to study the ocean's future with the help of the world's first supercomputer of its kind to run on the Linux operating system. The new supercomputer -- an SGI AltixT 3000 single-system image supercomputer -- has been installed at the space agency's Ames Research Center in California." [Slashdot]
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POWER5, UltraSPARC IV and Efficeon: Some thoughts on three new processors: "MPF 2003 was a while ago, and after it was over I started working on a wrap-up of the major announcements. The wrap-up quickly turned into a narrower look at only the three processors that interested me the most." [Ars Technica]
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