$24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer

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$24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 17, 2002 @01:32AM 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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*cough* bullshit *cough* by evilpaul13 · 2002-04-17 01:50 · Score: 1, Troll

"Open architecture"? How many other "open architectures" are only and will only be manufactured by one company (Intel)? Itanium is as closed as they come. I've gottta go out now, and buy that "Open Windows" Microsoft just started selling.

McKinley isn't out yet, and Madison is its successor. Why don't they just build it using Pentium 8s and Athlon XP 52s?

Sure, mod me a troll for not eating up the nonsensical marketing garbage that is being passed off as a news story. Did HP start advertising on /.?
1. Re:*cough* bullshit *cough* by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 01:55 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  I'd expect to be modded down by the closed minded 14 year old Wintel whores that read /.
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Not a lot of people know this... by Sobrique · 2002-04-17 01:54 · Score: -1, Troll

Well, not a lot of people know this, but there are a whole bunch of optimisations that have crept into the linux Kernel but are note enabled by default because they've been thought 'unstable'.
One of these is 'exec mode'. When enabled, the linux kernel uses a smart caching algorithm to speed up application load/start times.
It's actually quite easy to install too. Simply add the line 'exec true' to your system profile (/etc/profile generally). It's possible to enable on a per user basis by inserting this into a .bashrc or .profile (depending on shell) but obviously then the system operations don't gain the benefit.
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