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LinuxBIOS, BProc-Based Supercomputer For LANL

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-but-what-about-the-neon-lights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LANL will be receiving a 1024 node (2048 processor) LinuxBIOS/BProc based supercomputer late this year. The story is at this location. This system is unique in Linux cluster terms due to no disks on compute nodes, using LinuxBIOS and Beoboot to accomplish booting, and BProc for job startup and management. It is officially known as the Science Appliance, but is affectionately known as Pink to the team that is building much of it."

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  1. Not a Beowulf cluster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if you'd replace the expensive high-performance interconnect with a cheap ethernet, then it would be a Beowulf cluster.

  2. Re:Wow... by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think so? Wouldn't a system with disks be more suitable for that

    Nah, just one honkin RAMDisk. Could serve up mucho porn/warez, when the feds come knockin, just pull the plug, presto, no evidence :)

  3. Don't do it! by FyRE666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I will personally track down and slaughter the first person to mention a popular clustering architecture, and how one might imagine it...

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    Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
  4. Cluster details by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cluster Overview:
    * 2050 Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors

    Now when people complain about the United States government being responsible for global warming they will have some good hard facts to use.