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The SC14 supercomputer show at New Orleans saw Intel getting its Xeon, Phi and Lustre hooks into many suppliers, IBM pushing its POWER credentials and ARM punching in there too. There was nothing dramatic, exascale computing not yet having been reached, but a lot of incremental improvements. The November 2014 Top500 list has …

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  1. TheWeddingPhotographer

    Impressive stuff

    Seriously impressive work. This stuff makes things like weather forecasts actually accurate, and the crunching in big science possible. Well done

    Hint. Don't install Windows on one, it will for sure come to a grinding halt in 6 months, and want to restart when it decides it want to.

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  2. Salts
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    Intel CPU

    "Dot Hill provided another example of Intel’s effort to commoditise supercomputing with a scale-out Lustre file server using Dot Hill’s Ultra48 AssuredSAN 4004"

    Does that mean it uses the intel 4004 cpu :-) ok time for a pint!

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