The link below is a graphical view of the top 500.<br>It's quite telling to click on the "by OS" button :-) That M$ even shows up is almost funny.<br clear="all"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm</a><br>
<br>What is more telling is the notion of "what is important" viewed with the "by application" button.<br><br>Weather/climate research has only 4 systems dedicated to it (340TFlops total). Japan, Germany, UK and US have one each. And none of them is "big" at ~8000 cores and 115TFlops compared to the _big_ clusters at 500+TFlops.<br>
<br><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits <br><br>