The fact that NOAA doesn't mention Linux in the press release means that NOAA doesn't care what the box is, if it meets the peformance requirements.
If SGI or IBM (the two other leading competitors) had won, the press release wouldn't have mentioned Irix or AIX either.
HPTi could deliver 10,000 trained monkey's in a box if it met the performance requirements.
The fact that a Linux solution could exceed the performance of an SGI or IBM supercomputing solution is important to the Linux community, but not directly to NOAA.
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The fact that NOAA doesn't mention Linux in the press release means that NOAA doesn't care what the box is, if it meets the peformance requirements.
If SGI or IBM (the two other leading competitors) had won, the press release wouldn't have mentioned Irix or AIX either.
HPTi could deliver 10,000 trained monkey's in a box if it met the performance requirements.
The fact that a Linux solution could exceed the performance of an SGI or IBM supercomputing solution is important to the Linux community, but not directly to NOAA.
Mark Vernon
HPTi
Absolutely. This is NOT a Beowulf cluster.
Beowulf refers to the tools created at NASA Goddard CESDIS
This cluster uses MPI and tools developed by the University of Virginia's Legion Project
Beowulf has become, to some, a generic term for a Linux cluster, like Kleenex to tissues.
Mark Vernon HPTi