The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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David Heath
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 04:30
Australia's Animal Logic holds down position 279. Weta Studios (in Wellington NZ, responsible for Lord of the Rings and other projects) has 5 identical systems in positions 140 – 144. All six Australasian systems were provided by Hewlett Packard.
Amongst the rest of the world, The Americas has 300 systems (almost all in USA) and Europe 145. Almost all of the remainder are in Asia (China with 21 and Japan with 15 systems).
So, what of the winners?
Interestingly, the top 2 are unchanged from the previous list; they're still the only two systems to beat the 1 petaflop barrier. "Roadrunner," based on 14,400 Playstation 9-core CPUs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (you know: the guys interested in things that "go bump in the night!") remains first and the Cray XT5 Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, built on 37,538 AMD Opteron Quad core processors is still second.
Third is a brand-new system, Germany's JUGENE, a variant of the well-known BlueGene/P family, is almost twice as fast as the 4th placed system.
A new measure is energy-efficiency. As might be expected, the Playstation-based Roadrunner is amongst the most efficient systems (at 536 Mflop / watt), the BlueGene/P systems at 372 Mflop / watt) and interestingly the Intel quad-core blades (at up to 273 Mflop / watt) are making inroads.
From a negative viewpoint, average power consumption of the top ten is unchanged at 2.45 megawatts. Bring your own power station!
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