From: Mike '/m' 


Now all you need to do is fire up abcde and hook it up to one of those
clusters for the conversion tasks.  :-)

 /m


On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:01:04 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>Now here are some machines for doing some serious DVD2AVI ripping :
>
>http://lwn.net/Articles/37504/
>
>"SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Selected by Cray Inc. for the U.S. Department
>of Energy's New "Red Storm" Supercomputer
>
>Computer Simulations Will Monitor US Nuclear Stockpile
>
>Oakland, California, June 23, 2003 -- SuSE Linux today announced that it
>has been chosen by Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) to drive key aspects of the
>U.S. Department of Energy's new massively parallel processing (MPP)
>supercomputer called Red Storm at Sandia National Laboratories, California,
>which, when completed, will be the fastest supercomputer in the US."
>
>So the fastest computer in the US......will be running linux...
>
>Oh &
>
>http://www.vnunet.com/News/1141778
>
>"A Linux cluster supercomputer, built for the US Lawrence Livermore
>National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2002, has become the third fastest
>supercomputer in the world.
>
>According to the 21st TOP500 supercomputing list, the Linux Networx
>Evolocity system, known as MCR, can process 7.6 trillion calculations
>per second (teraflops) running the Linpack benchmark, and is the fastest
>Linux cluster in the world.
>
>It is the highest ranking ever for a Linux cluster, according to Erich
>Strohmaier, computer scientist at the National Energy Research
>Scientific Computing Center/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and
>co-founder of the TOP500 list.
>
>"Only a year and a half ago, MCR would have ranked as the fastest
>supercomputer in the world with this performance, which gives a good
>indication of the power of this machine," he said.
>
>The Linux Networx system is also the fastest Intel-based machine ever
>built. It harnesses 2,304 2.4GHz Xeon processors and is connected using
>the Quadrics interconnect. LLNL uses the Linux Networx ICE Box cluster
>appliance for system management.
>
>LLNL is using the cluster to conduct experiments in global climate
>modelling, material properties, earthquakes and other large-scale,
>high-performance simulations of physical phenomena.
>
>The system specs include:
>
>     * 7.6 teraflops Linux cluster of Dual Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors.
>     * 4.6TB of aggregate memory.
>     * 115.2TB of aggregate local disk space.
>     * 1,154 total nodes plus separate hot spare clusters and
>development clusters.
>     * 2,304 Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors.
>     * Sub 1U Evolocity node for 1,116 compute nodes.
>     * LinuxBIOS on all nodes.
>     * Linux Networx ICE Box Management Appliance.
>     * Blue Arc Si7500 Storage Systems with a combined storage capacity
>of 115TB.
>     * Cluster File Systems' Lustre Open Source cluster wide file system."

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