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SGI Installs First Itanium Cluster At OSC
Troy Baer writes: "SGI and the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) have announced the installation of the first cluster using Itanium processors. The system consists of 73 SGI 750 nodes, each with two Itanium 733MHz procs and 4GB of memory, connected by Myrinet 2000 and Ethernet. Software includes Linux/ia64, SGI's ia64 compiler suite, MPICH/ch_gm, OpenPBS, and Maui Scheduler."
They're using Linux? That's weird. This sounds like bad judgment to me.
Why would a respected organization like the NSF use an operating system made by hobbyists when there are plenty of more professional alternatives. I cannot image a group of hobbyists ever being interested in making an operating system that could compete with any of the more robust, commercial offerings.
Of course, i'm talking about maybe Solaris, or even better, Windows 2000.
It is truly a sad day to see a truly powerful and superior operating system like Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional being passed by like a dead cow along the highway by a _clearly_ inferior operating system like Linux.
I mean, come on. Linux is nice for a few hackers who like to build their own operating system and people who simply can't afford a real-world operating system, but to use it in a real production environment?
I hope these fine people of the NSF will see their obvious mistakes and return to the world of real, commercial operating system offerings.
By the way... is it just me, or does the name NSF remind anybody of a certain computer game?
You're a fucking idiot. If you don't want to code , Don't
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