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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Mare Nostrum: the Mediterranean by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-15 21:38 · Score: 0, Troll

The literal translation of 'Mare Nostrum' is 'Our Sea' it however referred to the Mediterranean, which was controlled by the Roman Empire.

In the same way Americans (well USIANS) today refer to Earth as 'Our Planet' (because Earth is controlled and policed by the US Government) and 'Pax Romana' is equivalent to 'Pax Americana.