HPC
Cray sells Opteron-Linux super to Swiss boffins
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano has coughed up some serious Swiss francs to buy a Cray 141.6 teraflops XT5 system, dubbed Monte Rosa. The deal comes in part from the fact that Thomas Schulthess, director of CSCS and a professor of physics at ETH Zurich, took over the lab after a stint at Oak Ridge …
Yes BUT......
Will it play games.....
Paris, 'cause I know she'll play.
Oh my....
An English statement is available here http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/090529_MonteRosa_CSCS-su/index_EN (even though admittedly it fails to mention the dosh that is spent on the machine).
More troubling is the claim that an article is supposed to be written in "Swiss German", happily ignoring the fact that Swiss German to German is something like, ugh, Cockney to Shakespeare's language.
For a real treat of Swiss German try this: http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweiz
Good luck with feeding it to Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fals.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSchweiz&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=
Crysis crisis.
But will it run Cyrsis?*
*Probably, ...................just.
iStore
If there are no apps on the iStore for it, it can't be that good.
srsly.
& u no it.
But will it run...
....Manic Miner?
Ahh when games were games, it was always sunny and you could go outside without a tin hat...
Nyet to netbooks, oui to Crays
AMD doesnt believe the netbook fad will survive.
Theyre looking the other way.
