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."

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Seti@home

[goonies]

I bet they only want to beat the sith out of the top10 seti@home users by sending in packages every 10 minutes.... ;-)

Interesting

[SilentChris]

"Software includes Linux/ia64, SGI's ia64 compiler suite, MPICH/ch_gm, OpenPBS, and Maui Scheduler."

One only wonders if this would be posted on Slashdot if the OS was Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter. :) Just a thought...

the difference between the elite and the l33t

[Anonymous Coward]

True HPC Coder:
Myrinet interfaced via PCI? Argh! SN-IA won't be here soon enough!

l33t d00d with an overclocked athlon:
SCHWEEEET, a BEOWULF CLUSTER! With an IDE RAID on each node I could have years of DiVX movies on that!!!

Re:obvious

[ThatComputerGuy]

he said no imagining... from now on, all beowulf clusters must be fathomed.

Humm

[Aqua OS X]

Intel... you're painting yourself into a corner with this mhz battle against AMD, Moto, and IBM.

geez.. sounds like your describing Deep Thought

[Pengo]

We can ask it for the answer to the great question of the universe?

a dialogue

[the_tsi]

Slashdotter: I wish to complain about
this company what I read about not half an
hour ago on this very website.
Me: Oh yes, the, uh, the Workstation manufacturer...What's,uh...What's
wrong with it?
S: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. it's dead,
that's what's wrong with it!
M: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.
S: Look, matey, I know a dead company when I see one, and
I'm looking at one right now.
M: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable company,
the SGI, idn'it, ay? Powerfull CPUs!
S: The CPUs don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
M: Nononono, no, no! It's resting!
S: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
(shouting)
'Ello, Mister Bob Bishop! I've got a lovely fresh government
contract for you if you show...
M: There, it moved!
S: No, it didn't, that was you faking a press release!
M: I never!!
S: Yes, you did!
M: I never, never did anything...
S: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO SGI!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine
o'clock alarm call!

See, guys, I told you they still had life left! :)

-Chris

Not a bad deal

[wirefarm]

"... The old system will be divided into smaller clusters and cascaded to faculty ...

"Damn. I asked for an iMac, but got this stupid Linux cluster instead!"

;^)

Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo

Competitors Know the Itanium Sucks

[Orbitalb]

Apple knows that at present, the Itanium (which is based on a RISC-like design scheme called VLIW, or EPIC) is stuck at 800MHz even in its prelease form -- slower even than the shipping PPC 7450 (G4) which is running at 867MHz and expected to cross the GHz barrier by year's end. The Itanium, while offering many important features lacking from previous Intel chips, has also been criticized for its poor performance - particularly when running existing x86 applications and operating systems. Apple's next-generation processor is the PPC 7500 or G5, which is also 64-bit and employs the first complete architectural revamp since the first PowerMacs shipped in the mid-90's...but the G5, unlike Itanium, can process existing 32-bit PowerPC instructions at full performance and is expected to continue to scale upward in clock rates; the initial G5s slated to ship in early or mid-2002 are currently projected to run at 1.2GHz with per-clock performance targeted for roughly 65% beyond Itanium.

Also of note, IBM has stated that current plans for the G5's SIMD/AltiVec engine specify a 256-bit system, rather than a 128-bit one in the G4. This will be one kickass CPU.

Itanium?

[Bobo the Space Chimp]

Dr. Adams: "Welcome to the Silicon Graphics Tantalus V Itanium research campus."

Stan: "Why did you call it 'Itanium'?"

Dr. Adams: "I have a rare marketing disease that prevents me from pronouncing the first 'T' in 'itanium.'"

fascinating

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a snippet from his little bio thing:

Belluzzo was formerly chief executive officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), where he was responsible for defining and executing a return to growth and profitability for the company