Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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!"

2 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That'll suffice by di0s · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And *maybe* Half-Life 2.

  2. This comes as a shock by fr0dicus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Linux is a good choice for a supercomputing cluster? No shit sherlocks. This isn't front page news, it's barely news at all. No wonder readership figures are declining.