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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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Back in another life doing commercial flooring instead of IT stuff we got to put the floors in the expansion at the WI headquarters back in the late 80s. Since I was a geek even back then they let me tour and I got my first look at a 8" floppy disk.
The rest of the factory was interesting though.