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Japan's Newest Linux Supercluster: 13TB RAM

Posted by timothy on from the hey-is-that-DDR-you've-got-there dept.

green pizza writes "Following its sale of a 10240 processor cluster to NASA, Silicon Graphics Inc has announced that it's supplying a 2048 processor Altix 3700 Bx2 to the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. Aside from running Linux on Itanium2 processors, the beast also features 13 TB of RAM!"

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  1. oh my... by Quasar1999 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember back in my electronics course when we had to design the flip-flop grid for memory... the teacher said he'd give 100% to anyone that could draw out 64K of memory... 13TB just makes me cringe...

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  2. Nuke Simulator? by k0de · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So an American company is selling a computer to a Japanese organization that is ideal for simulating nuclear explosions. Interesting.

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  3. Honest curiosity by erroneus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hear gobs about huge clusters and Linux as the OS that makes it all happen but I don't think I've ever heard other OSes uses like this.

    Could someone make an "off the top of their head" list of SuperComputing cluster and OSes that are used in them?

    I *am* a Linux user and I'm actually kinda curious if Microsoft has an answer to this area of computing?