Building The MareNostrum COTS Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @08:40PM from the available-at-every-pharmacy dept.

karvind writes "IBM Power Architecture Community Newsletter has a story about making a supercomputer (Number 4 on top 500 list) from easily available components (like BladeCenter and TotalStorage servers, 970FX PowerPC processors, and Linux 2.6). A joint venture between IBM and the Spanish government, it is named MareNostrum: the Latin term meaning 'our sea.' Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers."

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Did Michael Simms get fired? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-15 20:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So what's the story on that? And why did it take so long?
1. Re:Did Michael Simms get fired? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-15 20:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  welcome to last month, yeah he got fired!
Why bother? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-15 20:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I mean... imagine a beowulf cluster of cell processors!