23 Feb
2004
23 Feb
'04
10:46 p.m.
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 04:00, Jochen Kunz wrote:
CPUs and a global shared memory. Big NUMA machines are
IMHO
supercomuters, where Linux PeeCee clusters are not.
I think that (to most people, and probably not to people on this list)
that there's not that same distiction. Anyways, I said a trend in
Supercomputing[1] not a trend in Supercomputers[2].
[1] "Thing" that collectively can do work together and attain speeds of
multi-Gflops that are high enough to make the TOP500 list.
[2]"Cool computers" I'd like to own and that Dave McGuire has in his
livingroom (and other rooms as I hear) of his house.
Pat
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