[Fsf-friends] Anand Babu in Mumbai
Nagarjuna G.
nagarjun@gnowledge.org
Thu Aug 19 18:04:10 IST 2004
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Please forward this to those in CDAC, Mumbai University, Puna, Nashik,
BARC who will be interested in super computing.
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Talk by Anand Babu on Thunder: Free Software and Super Computing
Venue: TIFR, Colaba (www.tifr.res.in) 11am on Sunday 22nd.
Venue: IIT Mumbai (Kresit Auditorium) 5:30pm on Sunday 22nd.
All are welcome to attend at any of the above convenient venues.
Anand Babu, the main hacker of Thunder, the second fastest super
computer made with GNU/Linux, is visiting Mumbai on his way back to
US. He will be talking about design and development of Thunder Super
Computer and its associated Free Software stack.
Thunder can perform 23 trillion floating point operations per
second (peak) yielding the best price/performance ratio at 86.7%
efficiency. (highest efficiency rating recorded at this scale).
Presentation material: bzip2 compressed PDF document:
http://www.gnu-india.org/ab/thunder/thunder-experience.pdf.bz2
Picture of Thunder Super Computer:
http://gnu-india.org/ab/thunder/ThunderApril2004_300dpi.jpg
You can find a brief intro about Anand Babu at http://chennailug.org/ web
site - main page.
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Nagarjuna
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