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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • March 22, 2000
    "Los Lobos is a departure from the traditional supercomputer set-up. It's built from many smaller, industry standard computers – 64 of IBM Netfinity 256 servers, specifically. The Netfinity servers are linked together using special clustering software and high-speed networking hardware, which causes the separate units to act as one computer, delivering a processing speed of 375 gigaflops, or 375 billion operations per second. Although its creators believe Los Lobos is the fastest Linux supercomputer, it will only rank 24th on the list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers."

    Full story:
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35113,00.html

    ONLY 24th. Link by Slashdot.com (yes, .com).

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