November 17, 2003

The fastest supercomputer is to run on Linux.

Big Mac, the terascale cluster built entirely out of Macintosh computers is officially the third fastest super computer notes this Wired article.

However its 10.3 teraflop speed may soon be eclipsed by a dishwasher sized super computer being built by IBM which may clock up to 360 teraflops. By comparison, the fastest machine today clocks just 35 teraflops and is the size of four tennis courts. And it is expected to run on Linux…

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