RE: but will it run windows?

I've been discussing with someone else that perhaps they use 92 processes to run Windows and the 8,100 to monitor for errors and do an auto restart...

We started with only 2 process to run windows, but then we thought about Office and upped it to 92...

Mike Kline

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> Obviously not, it would take a single computer that powerful just to make
> Windows run in a meaningful way.
>
> Dick Goulet
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> Date: 8/17/2001 5:15 AM
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> InformationWeek_at_update.informationweek.com:
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> ** The World's Fastest Computer (This Week)
>
> Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
> Livermore, Calif., held a coming-out party this week, but it
> wasn't for a debutante--it was to dedicate the world's fastest
> computer, a silicon belle named ASCI White. And this young lady
> knows how to cook. It works at speeds of 12.3 teraflops, or
> trillion floating operations per second--faster than the combined
> speed of the next three most powerful machines on earth.
>
> The $110 million IBM supercomputer consists of 8,192
> off-the-shelf IBM Power-3-II processors. It's got four terabytes
> of RAM and disk capacity of more than 160 terabytes, and it fills
> a computer room longer than two basketball courts. There's 49.3
> miles of cable connecting the nodes of the machine, and it
> requires enough power to cool 765 homes.
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