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IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux
bigjnsa500 writes "Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the system for performing nuclear weapons simulations." Blue Gene has been announced for some time, but it's cool to see how it's shaping up.
Hmm, I wonder why they chose to use SCO's OS. You would think with all the lawsuits they would try to stay away from SCO's software...
In other news, Levi's has announced a lawsuit against IBM, citing the name of the server line could confuse their customers.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
The IBM research team is currently running a large Linux cluster to simulate Blue Gene.
So then why don't have we have the simulation of Blue Gene run a simulation of Blue Gene two, and that run a simulation of a quantum computer, and that run a simulation of Deep Thought? Then that can run a simulation of the rest of the universe.
Then the two will bicker and argue about who's real, whom created whom, and millions of Matrix freaks will yell "I told you!!!" to those who have ridiculed them so many, many years.
Ahhh, you are forgetting the army of overpriced IBM consultants that you'll have to hire to install the thing.
Do you go with ATI or Nvidia?
Good frame rate for Quake 3??
AA on or off?
VSynch on or off?
Michael Jackson has released a new hit single that denounces this upstart of a project as anything but his lover.
Dear Linus,
the kernel is becoming slightly unstable with more than 10 trillion bytes and 65000 CPUs, please try to reproduce the situation. See the attached memory dump file.