something for the geek astronomers to drool over

[Kal]

Have a read of this article (http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/supercomputer-overhaul-is-out-of-this-world/2007/08/20/1187462175419.html)



Err, over 1 thousand quad core processors, nice!!!!

[Ric]

My little DSI II would love that RAM.

[Ingo]

Dang they should've just ran OSX. Why CentOS though? It's like...redhat enterprise, but free.

[Omaroo]

I use CentOS 3.3 and 4.4 on all of our servers. Rock steady, fast, lean and free. No X-Windows - just the bare essentials. I've also dabbled with Linux clustering - and ran four nodes all linked via 100-base/T ethernet for some pretty incredible test results. Great if you're into lots of tedious number crunching.