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Compaq To Build DEC Beowulf Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the imagine-a-beow-aww-never-mind dept.

Tower writes: "Compaq Computer (Digital) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center have won a $36 million contract to build a 2,728-processor supercomputer using 1.1 GHz EV68 processors in a 682 node Beowulf setup. Check it out here." This is a different machine than this one: That one was supposed to be used to calculate nuclear explosions, this one will be used by the National Science Foundation to work on biophysics, global climate change, astrophysics and materials science, according to the article.

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  1. Test Drive a Beowulf by chamber · · Score: 5
    As a matter of fact, we've just set up a new Beowulf cluster that people can play with. It's got 9 DS10L's (1U rack-mountable Alpha systems), each with a 466 MHz EV6 Alpha, 256 MB of RAM, and two 10,000 RPM UltraSCSI drives. If you're interested, stop by http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/, where you can get all the dirt and get a free shell account on it and our other Test Drive machines.

    Yes, I work for Compaq. No, I don't speak for them.

  2. Not Beowulf/Linux by Wookie+Athos · · Score: 4

    If you read the C|Net page carefully you will see it says the machines are to be 4-CPU Compaq boxes running Tru64 Unix.

    The writer did mention Beowulf, but only to say that it was similar.

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