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In theory, this can do an hour's worth of work in one second. That is a lot of horsepower. Glad I'm not paying the power bill.

Quoted: • 4000 nodes
• 2 quad core Xeons @ 2.5ghz per node
• 4x1TB SATA disks per node
• 8G RAM per node
• 1 gigabit ethernet on each node
• 40 nodes per rack
• 4 gigabit ethernet uplinks from each rack to the core (unfortunately a misconfiguration, we usually do 8 uplinks)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
• Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_05-b13
• So that's well over 30,000 cores with nearly 16PB of raw disk!

Quoted: KOMPLEX is an add-on module to AZTEC that allows users to solve complex-valued linear systems. KOMPLEX solves a complex-valued linear system $Ax = b$ by ...

Poor Stallman. He's just clueless about the real world.

Quoted: The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian.

So how does Digg handle 200+ million page views a month?

This is a nice way to segment the cloud computing industry.

Quoted: This insightful post on the RightScale blog recently got me thinking. The term Cloud Computing is much too vague. People want and need slots or segments

Quoted: At Pi we are working on simple metaphors for managing all your information - your Personal Information – all the information that you have access to, send, receive, search for, and publish.

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Was curious if there was an elastic computing offering for Windows. Seems like there are a few, and Microsoft is planning to launch its own in October.

Quoted: A few companies have attempted to offer on demand Windows clouds including Terremark's "The Enterprise Cloud" (VMware based) and Gogrid. But both have yet to release an API for programmatic access, so there usefulness in a truly "elastic computing" environment is questionable.