[geeks] Blue Gene/P

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> 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 getsa 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... ;^)

That reminds me, I went out today to torture laptop sales people, er, I mean 
look at laptops.

Hunting was good... :)



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