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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.

-- Nagarjuna