Roadrunner Beep bl**dy beep
Tsk Tsk, The road runner always says its name Nimi!
The Supercomputing 2008 trade show kicked off this past weekend, and the centerpiece of the annual event, which is being hosted in Austin, Texas, is the Top 500 ranking of supercomputers that comes out twice a year. This time around, Cray's Jaguar has tried to catch IBM's Roadrunner and has come up with feathers in its mouth. …
I wonder how the system works where a company is waiting for chip developers to come out with the designs they want and have to wait whilst problems knock the shipment times back.
In which case why is the US (which you say like to have as many such companies afloat as possible) not more astringent about chip fabricators?
I'd have thought they see the danger of having only Intel in business was letting the monopolist too much slack.
Love the technical information on the hardware but could we also know what OS's were represented on the list? pleeeeaaaaaaaaase? Personally I'd like to see what the proportions of various *NIX variants and *NIX like OS's were. Obviously I don't expect to see windows on any of them but that's simply because windows is a pile of wank.
Paris, just because.