[geeks] Blue Gene/P

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Jun 26 13:52:53 CDT 2007


>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2007/06/26 Tue AM 11:34:58 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Cc: Blue Gene/P at mrbill.net
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Blue Gene/P

>On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:25:48PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Fully configured, 884,736 850MHz PPC450 cores in 216 cabinets yielding 3
>> teraflops.
>
>So what? It still runs VISTA slowly. :-)

It only gets a 4.1 on the "Vista Readiness Tool" - you have to upgrade the graphics card to at least 128 Meg to enable the Aero user interface enhancements... ;^)

Lionel



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