$24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer

An anonymous reader wrote in to say "Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US DOE) signed a $24.5 million dollar contract with HP for a Linux supercomputer. This will be one of the top ten fastest computers in the world. Some cool features: 8.3 Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second, 1.8 Terabytes of RAM, 170 Terabytes of disk, (including a 53 TB SAN), and 1400 Intel McKinley and Madison Processors. Nice quote: 'Today's announcement shows how HP has worked to help accelerate the shift from proprietary platforms to open architectures, which provide increased scalability, speed and functionality at a lower cost,' said Rich DeMillo, vice president and chief technology officer at HP. Read Details of the announcement here or here."

Comments

Re:Other OSes

[hawkstone]

1. IBM ASCI White,SP Power3 375 MHz
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

It runs AIX.

2. Compaq AlphaServer SC ES45/1GHz
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Haven't used it, but I'm guessing Tru64.

3. IBM SP Power3 375 MHz 16 way
NERSC/LBNL

Once again, AIX.

4. Intel ASCI Red
Sandia National Labs

A poor home-grown OS (no offence) called Cougar or TFlops which doesn't even support X11 or sockets.

5. IBM ASCI Blue-Pacific SST,IBM SP 604e
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Can you say AIX?

6. Compaq AlphaServer SC ES45/1GHz
Los Alamos National Laboratory

I assume Tru64.

7. Hitachi SR8000/MPP
University of Tokyo

No idea. Sorry.

8. SGI ASCI Blue Mountain
Los Alamos National Laboratory

IRIX.

9. IB SP Power3 375 MHz
Naval Oceanographic Office

Don't know for sure, but you can bet it's AIX.

10. IBM SP Power3 375 MHz 16 way
Deutscher Wetterdienst

Again, I'm sure it's AIX.

All Unix. No, no linux on there yet, but Pacific Northwest will be right up there near the top, and Lawrence Livermore is also probably getting a linux cluster of almost that size pretty soon. That will make two in the top few slots.

No Windows on these puppies! ;)

Here's another supercomputer running Linux

[qurob]

What about this one?

3:00 a.m. March 22, 2000 PST
The University of New Mexico and IBM are teaming up to build the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer.

Named "LosLobos", the new supercomputer is scheduled to be fully operational by the summer


Whats the current status?

GOOGLE!

[Jagasian]

What about Google?!? It should qualify as a Linux supercomputer. For those who don't know, Google, the popular search engine, uses a huge cluster of PCs running Linux.

Linux IS Unix

[leereyno]

AIX is Unix
BSDI is Unix
HP-UX is Unix
Solaris is Unix
Sun-OS is unix
Digital Unix...is Unix
FreeBSD is Unix
NetBSD is Unix
OpenBSD is Unix
A/UX is unix
Xenix is unix
Unixware is unix
SCO Unix is Unix
NextStep is unix
Unicos is unix
Irix is unix
Ultrix is unix

and yes, Linux is Unix.

It may not be Unix(tm), but it certainly is unix, at least as much as any of the above operating systems are. Whether or not an OS has one line of code from Thompson and Ritchie or BSD is irrelevant. What matters is what kind of a system its code implements. The code for Linux, including all of the GNU components and other userland parts, implement an operating system that is at least as similar to any of the above mentioned OS's as they are to one another. I don't know just exactly how compliant Linux is with the various posix standards, but I have heard it referred to as posix compliant, and I know that NO version of unix is completely compliant.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....its a duck.

Lee