[ale] Linux on a supercomputer

[Brett Spangler]

I single p200 out preforms a sparc20;P

At 08:48 PM 7/30/97 -0400, Fred Werginz wrote:
>Can 3 Pentium Pros really be called a "supercomputer"?  
>
>Just wondering...
>
>Fred.
>
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>> From: Andrew Newton <lfs at eskimo.com>
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiats <ale at cc.gatech.edu>
>> Subject: [ale] Linux on a supercomputer
>> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 1997 9:08 PM
>> 
>> A friend of mine just faxed me an article out of the
>> latest Government Computer News (or whatever GCN
>> stands for).  Anyway, there is an article in there
>> about a NIST scientist that strung together 3
>> Pentium Pros to create a "supercomputer" that can
>> outperform a Connections Machine and Sparcstation
>> 20.  The OS he uses to do it is Linux.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Andrew Newton
>> lfs at eskimo.com
>> alnewton at automatedlogic.com
>> http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
>
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