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SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-chips dept.

im333mfg writes "ComputerWorld has an article up about an upcoming SGI Machine, being built for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, "that will run a single Linux operating system image across 1,024 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 processors and 3TB of shared memory.""

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  1. Re:Big Mac by devphaeton · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bring on the Apple Fan-Boy partylines about their Innovative(tm) G5 with the BEST GUI on top of their FULLY OPENSOURCED UNIX UNDERPINNINGS(tm).....

    It's not Offtopic! you *know* that there's going go be a bunch of Apple strokes talking about how superior the Big Mac is/was to this, based on any real or imagined aspect.

    (yeah, i quoting myself, get over it) :D

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  2. Re:Whoa! by D'Sphitz · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please, the parent is -1 whining about moderating.

  3. Government spending by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You could have linked 5 Xserves together for the same power.

    Or a quad operton.

  4. Re:Will it be done in time for Quake 3? by Chicane-UK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Worst.. FP.. ever!

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  5. Arvindn Again Late To Party by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hereby nominate this to be the next standard in-joke of slashdot in Japan. The previous candidate, evil overlords, never really took off in popularity, leaving us in the pathetic situation that every single bad joke available is soooo 2002 in Japan! I particularly like "but can it run Longhorn?" because it will be funny until Longhorn is out, which is (hopefully) a long long time from now in Japan. ;-)

  6. Re:Sun and/or IBM zseries hardware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    A few questions:

    * What if an error happens in the comparison unit?
    * What happens to the program that was running on the CPU as it is taken down? (The CPU registers is part of the program state, so you cannot just continue on another CPU).

    You don't think they've thought of this?
    In this situation, in order to ensure that the data is correct, the hard drive is immediately formatted.