Linxe's eye

My good friend Charlie ask me my opinion about some server/high-end computers, one of the options was the historically important Cray. Cray isn't producing their amazing systems that dominate the supercomputer field for years. Now they're producing high-performance desktop computers like the CX1-iWS . Well, it's a nice computer with cool hardware but with Windows 7 as OS (maybe to reach some 3D modeling tools, because all the HPC software I know run on Linux/OSX). This model in particular is being sold by Dell , I see the page to get more details and I found one of the reviews highly interesting: Date: October 8, 2010 Title: Helping our country's defense Review: We have been using a few of these units for a while and they scream! I work for a defense contractor (Cyberdyne Systems) and part of the reason we were able to get the contract was by leveraging these units rather than a dedicated supercomputer. We've been developing new microprocessors for ...

The IEEE Spectrum presents this interactive chart, really nice. I remember when people asked me how to hack a computer or email, I never know, but I found more interesting hacking genomes than machines.

from Abstruse Goose.

An excellent article about this area " Next-Generation Supercomputers " [Peter Kogge 2011] . He pointed that the exaflops machines is far away, we need new technology to decrease the power consumption. The PS3 comparison is cute too:

I'm still here (busy but here).

After a short wait, I received the GuruPlug, this little computer will host the GLiB website (currently down ...). This is the pretty and elegant package: and the unpacking: It include only the GuruPlug, one eth cable and two electric adapters. The specifications and diagram are: Of course this machine runs Linux (Debian Lenny) and it includes some basic services: Wifi server, CUPS, LAMP (lighttp + MySQL + PHP), ssh, samba. This is the GuruPlug in action: Some action in the terminal: $ ssh root@192.168.1.1 Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.1' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. root@192.168.1.1's password: Linux sheevaplug-debian 2.6.32-00007-g56678ec #1 PREEMPT Thu Dec 24 03:15:48 PST 2009 armv5tel The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicabl...