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Old 22-08-2007, 08:40 PM
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something for the geek astronomers to drool over

Have a read of this article

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Australia's black-hole hunters have one of the country's fastest computers at their disposal after a million-dollar overhaul of Swinburne University's supercomputing facilities.
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The new cluster runs CentOS Linux on more than a thousand Intel Clovertown quad-core processors, equipped with 2 terabytes of RAM.
Err, over 1 thousand quad core processors, nice!!!!
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