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SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-cluster-of-grapes dept.

green pizza writes "NASA has announced plans to cluster twenty 512-processor Silicon Graphics Inc Altix supercomputers connected to a 500-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage SAN. The Altix uses Itanium2 CPUs running Linux atop an Origin 3000-derrived architecture. NASA and SGI scaled Linux to 512 CPUs late last year. There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future. Lots of neat big iron project on the horizon!"

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  1. is tihs flamebait? by stealth.c · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I thought Linux clusters brought us Google and Pixar.

    And good luck licensing a 10240-processor copy of Windows.

  2. Future Jim Carey victim by heroine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When Jim Carey gets elected, don't be surprised if these monster computer projects get cancelled. For all the simultaneous worshipping of big iron and hatred of republicans, computer scientists still haven't figured out that big iron is defense spending and defense spending is big iron. The two are inseparable.