I've come to expect the first folks who comment on the articles to not RTFA, but it really irks me when the person submitting the article doesn't even appear to have read it and submits pure flamebait. I bet there are plenty of people who don't bother to read the comments and just take the story submissions on the first page as truth. Ahh... misinformation.
I should qualify this slightly. It is sort of a cluster, but they use a proprietary motherboard, interconnect and management processor and basically sell them as a supercomputer. It's hardly a traditional commodity hardware cluster although the internal architecture is more or less a cluster underneath.
An interesting quote i found...
"It is pretty clear that X86 processors and a handful of RISC processors have won the war for HPC," says Terry.
Yes, that Terry. Source: http://www.bradfordlearning.com/_nuke/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=249
Octigabay does (did) in fact make linux solutions. However, it is not a cluster. It's a more traditional supercomputer although it does use low cost AMD processors.
Cray isn't anti-linux per se, just anti-cluster.
Somehow I wouldn't be surprised, the next step seems to be cray-marketed cluster nodes with a proprietary high speed interconnect. (If you can't beat them, join them).
I have been working on (in my spare time... read: slowly) an mp3 player for my home. It is made out of the guts of a compaq pentium 75 (would be better if it was faster, but it seems to cut it) notebook.
It runs Debian, as does the server. I custom wrote a graphical interface which is controlled with a nintendo controller via the parallel port. The interface is built using the allegro game programming API and displays the song info, as well as 'pretty' pictures while playing.
The backend is written by querying a MySQL database on the server, then fetching the files off the NFS filesystem. It works amazingly well so far, and I've been able to get some interesting jukeboxing features too (choose 20% of one music genre, 80% of another and let it play).
It's far from polished enough for most people to deal with, but it's fun nonetheless.
I'd like to put up a page with some information about this, as soon as I get some time. I don't know if there is interest in this or not.
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Precisely.
I've come to expect the first folks who comment on the articles to not RTFA, but it really irks me when the person submitting the article doesn't even appear to have read it and submits pure flamebait. I bet there are plenty of people who don't bother to read the comments and just take the story submissions on the first page as truth. Ahh... misinformation.
I should qualify this slightly. It is sort of a cluster, but they use a proprietary motherboard, interconnect and management processor and basically sell them as a supercomputer. It's hardly a traditional commodity hardware cluster although the internal architecture is more or less a cluster underneath.
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An interesting quote i found...
"It is pretty clear that X86 processors and a handful of RISC processors have won the war for HPC," says Terry.
Yes, that Terry. Source: http://www.bradfordlearning.com/_nuke/html/module
Octigabay does (did) in fact make linux solutions. However, it is not a cluster. It's a more traditional supercomputer although it does use low cost AMD processors.
Cray isn't anti-linux per se, just anti-cluster.
Somehow I wouldn't be surprised, the next step seems to be cray-marketed cluster nodes with a proprietary high speed interconnect. (If you can't beat them, join them).
It runs Debian, as does the server. I custom wrote a graphical interface which is controlled with a nintendo controller via the parallel port. The interface is built using the allegro game programming API and displays the song info, as well as 'pretty' pictures while playing.
The backend is written by querying a MySQL database on the server, then fetching the files off the NFS filesystem. It works amazingly well so far, and I've been able to get some interesting jukeboxing features too (choose 20% of one music genre, 80% of another and let it play).
It's far from polished enough for most people to deal with, but it's fun nonetheless.
I'd like to put up a page with some information about this, as soon as I get some time. I don't know if there is interest in this or not.