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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. Imagine by cca93014 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    a beowolf cluster of those...

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  2. Benji by KDENCE · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have one of these on my desktop right now! I am not running Linux though, I am running Palm OS. However, I only use it to play solitaire and for my address book.

    Sincerely,
    Benjamin Franklin

  3. 11 responses... by evacuate_the_bull · · Score: 1, Redundant

    and already 4 comments about a beowolf cluster of these things. cmon slashdot, you can do better than that

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  4. Imagine... by svara · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those...