World's Most Powerful Linux Supercomputer Unveiled

[AGodspeed]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/18/doe.linux.idg/index.html

HP will supply the supercomputer, consisting of 1,400 of Intel's next-generation Itanium processors, code named McKinley and Madison. The computer will have 1.8TB of memory and 170TB of disk space, the statement said. One terabyte is one million megabytes.

The computer should reach processing speeds of 8.3T flops (8.3 trillion floating point operations per second) at peak performance, making it the most powerful Linux computer in the world, HP said. It will also be among the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Yeah, this baby should pack a nice punch.

 

[Baronz]

Too bad you can't SLI geforce 4s, thats the only part its lacking in

 

[ProviaFan]

Wow, that thing could probably finish the ECCp-109 challenge in a matter of days (or even hours?).

 

[Dreadogg]

noway my linux box is much faster than that!

 

[smp]

What's it gonna be used for? Echelon? Carnivore? ... solitaire?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

wow i wonder what the OS is like on that thing, whether they modified the kernel at all, and how its all set up. i would find it hard to believe that they just threw redhat on it or something. not that they couldnt, just that there would probably be some things they would want to tailor to this behemoth.