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$24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bigger-is-always-better dept.

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."

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  1. What would a cluster of these be like? by Qbertino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, couldn't resist. :-)
    BTW: First Post? Hope so. Jippeee...

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  2. Gee, that's fast... by gTsiros · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but does it run Serious Sam?! Who gives a damn about a computer if you can't hear Sam's magnificent "WooHoo! Let's go bowling" quote before you woop some kleer ass ;)

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  3. Re:Wow... good thing they chose linux... by KDENCE · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, if I had any mod points at least one would be yours man. This is way too funny!

  4. Something in this story by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is turning SlashDot into an Italic hell!

  5. Someone's going to say it sooner or later... by ari{Dal} · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Might as well be me.

    1) Imagine a beowolf cluster...
    2) Can that thing run Quake?
    3) Finally! A harddrive big enough for my MP3 collection!

    Seriously though, it's nice to see these companies working together to further common platforms. And running linux! If this doesn't show the power of linux scalability, nothing EVER will.

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