[Beowulf] China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S.

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hahn
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S.
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> > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/technology/28compute.html
> 
> "wrests", bah.  you get exactly the rank on top500 that you pay for.
> 

In a way, that's kind of a cool verification that Beowulfery works.. it's scalable and configurable, so you *can* buy exactly what you need.