NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer

unassimilatible writes: "Federal Computer Week reports that NASA plans to study the ocean's future with the help of the world's first supercomputer of its kind to run on the Linux operating system. The new supercomputer -- an SGI AltixT 3000 single-system image supercomputer -- has been installed at the space agency's Ames Research Center in California."

Comments

I can almost..

[aaron_ds]

Imagine a beo...oh never mind.

Uh-oh...

[Hanzie]

The article explicitly says they're using NUMA archeticture.

Obviously, it's running SCO's intellectual property. SGI doesn't really own NUMA, they only wrote it. Deep down, it's really a derivative of vi.

NASA was going to roll this out earlier...

[AvantLegion]

... but their copy of Mandrake 9.2 broke their supercomputer's LG CD-ROM drive.

Patches ?

[noselasd]

Whewre can I get the patches from SGI to make 2.4 run on such insane hardware ?

Re:Ocean? NASA?

[Stubtify]

Didn't you see the movie "The Abyss"?

or the tv show "Seaquest DSV"?

the ocean seems to be a gateway to the stars...

In other news.....

[micaiah]

SCO sues Nasa for using Linux.

Darl McBride stated yesturday, "Since Nasa is using Linux we now own the entire universe and are claiming our rightful ownership."

Re:In other news.....

[klafhat]

SCO sues Nasa for using Linux. Darl McBride ...

In yet other news, Darl McBride is now so afraid how NASA is going to respond, that he have hired a couple of bodyguards.

they also have.

[rf0]

A 512 CPU and 1024 CPU IRIX system. The 512 one is referred to as the small one :)

Rus

Bad Influence

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't using a supercomputer that has hundreds of very hot processors to simulate climatic change going to directly cause a change in the climet be ejecting large quantities of hot air?

3000 Procs @ $699 each.

[kidgenius]

3000 Processors @ $699 ea ~ $2.1 million
3000 Processirs @ $1399 ~ $4.2 million

So that's where SCO was planning on getting its money for Linux. It all makes sense now

Re:Not quite "Supercomputing"

[Realistic_Dragon]

And the 3700 is even faster than the 3700, so what's so special about it?

If it's faster than itself, then with some handy infinite recursion you can prove it's infinatly fast!

Sounds pretty special to me.

Re:Not quite "Supercomputing"

[martingunnarsson]

"And the 3700 is even faster than the 3700, so what's so special about it?"

It's obviously faster than itself, that sounds pretty special to me!

Heads are going to roll

[dcordeiro]

Linus is going to ask the responsible for the /proc/interrupts code how on hell didn't he tested that at home:
" Why didn't you test /proc/interrupts with 512 CPU in ?"

DUH!!

This new supercomputer has paid off already...

[Anonymous Coward]

... as it has completed it's simulation of the ocean in order to predict it's future:

cold and wet.

256 Procesors, that's not parallel computing!!!

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

I am at work just at email reading and reloading Slashdot, the radio at high volume, Watching an Iron Maiden '92 live video, while i'm on the phone with yet another client that is mad 'cause we deactivated http upload for php, Now, *That* is _real_ Multitasking!!!!