GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[Joe Buck]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:20:24AM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:06, Roger Sayle wrote:
> > But then its a complete
> > mystery why this so many of the top500 supercomputers are now Intel/AMD
> > clusters.
> 
> Economics. Less true nowadays with Apple decision to sell cheap bi G5
> systems, but then it's reflected in the TOP500 with a very nice spot for
> G5.

IBM has a plan to take the #1 spot once the BlueGene project is complete
next year; their architecture is PowerPC based (each of its processor
chips has two PowerPC processors on the chip).  Their 1/128th scale
prototype is already #73.  See

http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/

The completed machine will have 2**16 compute nodes and 1024 I/O nodes.
The I/O nodes run a Linux kernel; the compute nodes run a tiny OS that
supports only one process but provides a Posix interface.