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Paracel Cyclone Cluster Giveaway!
The cluster will include two AMD Opteron(TM) based nodes, each with 2 GB memory and 60 GB hard drive, and SuSE Enterprise Edition 8 operating system. This cluster will be granted to an educational, government or commercial organization or research project in the US. Enter to win...
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Gelato Federation Keeps Growing!
The Gelato Federation continues to draw prestigious universities, national laboratories and research units into the Linux-on-Itanium community. Read more...
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Linux on Itanium2
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| c|net: IBM details Blue Gene supercomputer |
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Posted by Ken Farmer (Thursday May 08 2003 @ 07:24AM EDT) [ ]
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IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a proclivity for the Linux operating system.
"Blue Gene" is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating a system that can perform one quadrillion calculations per second, or one petaflop. IBM expects a machine it calls Blue Gene/P to be the first to achieve the computational milestone. Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator is comparatively slow--about one-thirtieth of a petaflop--but fast enough to worry the United States government that the country is losing its computing lead to Japan.
"Blue Gene is a completely odd-ball, you've-never-seen-anything-like-this-before design," said Illuminata analyst Jonathan Eunice. "It is not custom everything, (but) it is still very exotic compared to anything you can buy."
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December 8-12 Experience the Performance of AMD Opteron Technology, Center for HPC/UNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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