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Originally Posted by mjohnson
So does Cray. Our now-five year old machine, "Trinity", runs what's claimed to be a Cray-modified linux system with >960,000 cores (almost 9 megawatts!). The next gen that's now running at LLNL is similar but bigger I think and the forthcoming third-gen 150 petaflop system coming in 2022 will also use that.
You know it's serious when the computers have building-sized cooling towers out back.
Just a humble little OS. It's probably installed with a USB-stick like mine at home.
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It is kinda funny, in the very beginning of computers the FAA had an entire building to house and keep cool a computer that had less than a megabyte of memory. Huge banks of tape drives. Then PCs changed everything, and they closed that huge outdated mainframe. Modern cell phones have more processing power than the 1960s mainframes.
Now the super computers are more advanced than could be imagined in the 1950s. 960,000 cores is an 5 year old system. Wow.