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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. Imagine... by mikiN · · Score: 0, Redundant

    a Beowulf cluster of those...err, never mind.

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  2. Worst. Joke. Ever. by paintballluvr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those.

    Worst. Joke. Ever.
    I stand by my decleration.

  3. Imagne a..... by EmagGeek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    oh wait... nevermind...

    I wonder how fast this sucker can run a spell check on the word "derived."