Cray sells Opteron-Linux super to Swiss boffins

The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano has coughed up some serious Swiss francs to buy a Cray 141.6 teraflops XT5 system, dubbed Monte Rosa. The deal comes in part from the fact that Thomas Schulthess, director of CSCS and a professor of physics at ETH Zurich, took over the lab after a stint at Oak Ridge …

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Posted Saturday 6th June 2009 00:09 GMT

Kwac

and soon #

Microsoft will be demanding it runs Windows.

Posted Saturday 6th June 2009 10:52 GMT

fred slack

Yes BUT...... #

Will it play games.....

Paris, 'cause I know she'll play.

Posted Saturday 6th June 2009 10:52 GMT

Christoph Wernli

Oh my.... #

An English statement is available here http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/090529_MonteRosa_CSCS-su/index_EN (even though admittedly it fails to mention the dosh that is spent on the machine).

More troubling is the claim that an article is supposed to be written in "Swiss German", happily ignoring the fact that Swiss German to German is something like, ugh, Cockney to Shakespeare's language.

For a real treat of Swiss German try this: http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweiz

Good luck with feeding it to Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fals.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSchweiz&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=

Posted Saturday 6th June 2009 11:07 GMT

David S

So. Cut the crap. #

What's it's refresh rate in Far Cry?

Posted Saturday 6th June 2009 13:22 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Crysis crisis. #

But will it run Cyrsis?*

*Probably, ...................just.

Posted Sunday 7th June 2009 10:47 GMT

Anonymous Coward

iStore #

If there are no apps on the iStore for it, it can't be that good.

srsly.

& u no it.

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 08:42 GMT

Anonymous Coward

But will it run... #

....Manic Miner?

Ahh when games were games, it was always sunny and you could go outside without a tin hat...

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 20:53 GMT

zeke

Nyet to netbooks, oui to Crays #

AMD doesnt believe the netbook fad will survive.

Theyre looking the other way.

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