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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."
thats gotta make one seriously fast game of quake 3...
My friend works for SGI, and they are a company you definatley don't want to work for.
He says that they're working hours are so long that their impossible - you have to work from 6 in the morning right through to 6 at night, sometimes longer, or else your pay will be docked.
They also have really nasty contracts where the small print states you're notice period is five years !
This is why so many stay and work for them. They have one nice office they show people when they start working there, but pretty soon (like, 1 week) later they ship you off to mexico where you have to work on Atari ST's (not even SGI's) and lightbulbs are not alowed because their to expensive.
My friend has even been whipped to make him code faster and has the scars to proove it.
So, Don't ever work at SGI - it'll be five years of hell, and my friend is still waiting to be payed.