Teragrid: Massive Grid Computing

onyxcide writes: "Envision is running a quick article on a new national grid of computing resources called TeraGrid. Half a petabyte of disk storage, 40-gigabyte-per-second national optical backbone, and 13 teraflops of computing power will make up this monster. It will allow "lavish amounts of online data to be continually available for instantaneous analysis, data mining, and knowlege synthesis." There's another article in the same magazine here: Transforming Research with High-Performance Grid Computing" LighthouseJ adds some details: "C|Net's news.com has a story about a new Compaq supercomputer named Terascale. It uses 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors distributed over 750 servers using networking systems from Quadrics. They say it can perform as fast as 10,000 desktop PC's combined in one second. The massive computer will make it's official debut on Monday at the Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh PA."

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More importantly...

[Fembot]

Does it run quake 3???? ;-)

Re:Technology is not the problem ...

[unitron]

Perhaps the moderator who decided to label the parent to this post as "flamebait" would be kind enough to explain, either here or in an email to me, just what it was about the post which struck them that way. They must have a much different perspctive on it than do I.