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World's second fastest computer

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Posted on: July 31, 2009 11:17 AM, by Greg Laden

(The fastest computer is the same thing but running a better operating system.)

Hat tip: Joe, copied from here.

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Man, I just geeked out hardcore...

Posted by: jj | July 31, 2009 11:41 AM

Wow, that's a lot of hard drives...

Posted by: Azkyroth | July 31, 2009 2:02 PM

Great video!

Posted by: Sojournposse | July 31, 2009 2:08 PM

Does anyone want to re-build this thing and try Ubuntu on it? If so, my fees will be extraordinarily reasonable; just provide the hardware, some food and coffee, and a well-ventilated room for a day or so.

Oh, and a trampoline.

Posted by: Jason Thibeault | July 31, 2009 2:21 PM

Wow, that's a lot of hard drives...

Those are SSDs - solid state drives. They cost a lot more than hard drives.

Posted by: Virgil Samms | July 31, 2009 3:19 PM

Thanks for this post. My friend living near the Eiffel Tower may need to look into this. However, I am skeptical at drug companies and their promises. I wonder if this will be another one of those "lifetime treatments" or cures

Posted by: rap | July 31, 2009 3:32 PM

Those are SSDs - solid state drives. They cost a lot more than hard drives.

Ans, they do not have as high of capacity as conventional drives although this is changing. Hence all the drives, which can actually make seek/write times faster, due to using RAID. One wonders what type / how many RAID SATA (I assume not SAS) controllers are in that rig.

Posted by: jj | July 31, 2009 7:08 PM

Is that a critical error at time marker 2:27 I see?

Posted by: Marty | August 1, 2009 4:11 AM

Marty: Well spotted!

Indeed, since they never mention anything about crashes I assume they are working in full Windows Denialism Mode. (WDM) so we have to take this whole thing with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Greg Laden | August 1, 2009 8:33 AM

Did they do a defrag? Never defrag an SSD. Unless you want to wear it out for no performance gain.

Posted by: aporeticus | August 3, 2009 12:58 PM

aporeticus: This is why they should do this with Linux. There is no defrag in Linux.

Posted by: Greg Laden | August 3, 2009 1:10 PM