Science Grid Genesis

Cranial Dome writes "According to this Cnet.com story, the Department of Energy (DOE) is working to interconnect the first two computers which will form the genesis of the DOE Science Grid, a virtual supercomputing system which will eventually encompass many more systems at several locations. The larger of the two machines: DOE National Energy Research Science Center's (NERSC) IBM SP RS/6000, a distributed memory machine with 2,944 compute processors. This machine, together with a smaller 160 processor Intel system, will make up a combined 3,328 processor Unix system with 1.3 petabytes(!) of storage space. And this is only the beginning..."

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And that's just for Bill's salary accounting...

[TiredGamer]

And what Operating System will DOE be running on this state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge, faster-than-God-intended computer?

Windows NT 2k2 (laugh thee not, M$ doth speak of such a beast)...

Oh, and don't forget that wonderful .Net accessability, where 16-y/o girl geeks can write C# virii to prove women really do hate M$ as much as their fellow male geeks.

-TG, more power = faster virii production, woohoo!

PS: In all seriousness (ack, there goes my Funny)... It would be cool if we could put this bad boy to work on some nasty stuff, like Superstring Theory, Proteins, and other Monstrously Huge Data Crunching Projects. But somehow I get the feeling this is going to be a toy for atom-smashers... never something practical or real-world.