NCSA CREATES FASTEST IBM LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IN ACADEMIA (fwd)

[Frederick Noronha <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:31:07 -0500
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Subject: NCSA CREATES FASTEST IBM LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IN ACADEMIA

NCSA CREATES FASTEST IBM LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IN ACADEMIA
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has built the fastest
Linux supercomputer for academia out of a IBM Linux cluster.
The computer will be used to aid in fundamental scientific
research. NCSA director Dan Reed said, "The explosion of the open
source community, the maturity of clustering software, and the
enthusiasm of the scientific community all tell us that Linux
clusters are the future of high-performance computing." Each
cluster combines two teraflops of computing power with a single
computing interface for systems ranging from single-user desktop
workstations to terascale systems. IBM has installed the first
cluster, which features IBM eServer x330 thin servers running Red
Hat Linux on 1 GHz Intel Pentium III chips. A second cluster will
be built this summer to operate TurboLinux on Intel's next-
generation Itanium processor. Altogether, both clusters will
consist of more than 600 IBM eServer eSeries running Linux and
Myrinet cluster information network software from Myricom.
(Mainframe Computing, March 2001)