Crossword clues for peloton
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, "small body of soldiers, platoon," from French peleton, derivative of pelote "ball, heap, platoon" (11c.); see platoon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) A platoon. 2 (context cycling English) The main group of riders formed during a cycling road race.
Wikipedia
Pelotón ( Spanish for " platoon") is a Chilean reality show on National Television of Chile in which the participants undergo an intense regime of military training. The winner receives 50 million pesos. The first season aired January 2 – May 5, 2007, and the second season ran from October 2, 2007 to March 11, 2008. The third season were premiere in July 2009 and the contestants were Chilean celebrities. The third and 4th season were shooting back to back, and like last season the majority of participants were celebrities.
Peloton is the second album by The Delgados, released in 1998 on their own label, Chemikal Underground. The title refers to the large main group in a road bicycle race.
The Peloton Super Computer purchase is a program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intended to provide tera- FLOP computing capability using commodity Scalable Units (SUs). The Peloton RFP defines the system configurations. Appro was awarded the contract for Peloton which includes the following machines:
Machine
Nodes
TPP (TFLops)
atlas
1152
44.24
hopi
80
2.92
minos
864
33.18
rhea
576
22.12
yana
80
3.07
zeus
288
11.06
All of the machines run the CHAOS variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Moab resource management system. Under the project management of John Lee, the team at Synnex, Voltaire, Supermicro and other suppliers, the scientists were able to dramatically reduce the amount of time it took to go from starting the cluster build to actually having hardware here at Livermore in production. In particular, it went from having 4 SUs on the floor on a Thursday, to bring 2 more SUs in for that final cluster and by Saturday, had all of them wired up, burned in, and running Linpack.
A peloton is the main group of riders in a road bicycle race.
Peloton may also refer to:
- Peloton (album), by Delgados
- Peloton (super computer), a computing cluster
- Peloton (biology), the intracellular portion of an orchid mycorrhiza
- Peloton (software company), a software company
Usage examples of "peloton".
The spectator rarely sees the technical side of cycling, but behind the gorgeous rainbow blur of the peloton is the more boring reality that road racing is a carefully calibrated thing, and often a race is won by a mere fraction of acceleration that was generated in a performance lab or a wind tunnel or a velodrome long before the race ever started.
I would learn that in the peloton, other riders can totally mess you up, just to keep you from winning.
If you flick somebody in the peloton, it means to screw him, just to get him.
The next day the peloton rode in honor of Fabio, and gave our team a ceremonial stage victory.
The peloton was still bunched up, full of banging and maneuvering, and it would be a tricky crossing.
Guys lay prone on the asphalt as the rest of the peloton bore down on them, and more riders fell.
Sestriere, on the French-Italian border, and I knew what the peloton was thinking: that I would fold.
The spectators had been flirting with disaster for days, skipping across the road in front of the peloton, and now a frenzied fan had leaped into the middle of the road with his Instamatic, and stood there taking pictures.
Somehow, we kept most of them in check and controlled the peloton, but the days were broiling and full of tension.
At the end of Stage 17, a long flat ride to Bordeaux, some nutcase shot pepper spray into the peloton, and a handful of riders had to pull over, vomiting.
According to tradition, the peloton would cruise at a leisurely pace, until we saw the Eiffel Tower and reached the Arc de Triomphe, where the U.
He thought he heard the whisper of a groan from the rest of the peloton as they went out the back.
Operation Peloton was a spectacular failure, and the objective was never accomplished.
He stayed back in the pack for the uphill grind, and then, for three glorious minutes, he broke free from the domestiques in the peloton and came right up at the shoulder of Aldo Cipollini.
He describes now the peloton of execution charging their rifles and one of the terrorists begging for mercy.