From: Adam Flinton 

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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