Re: NCSA CREATES FASTEST IBM LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IN ACADEMIA (fwd)

["Ruchir Tewari" <ruchir_tewari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

it's very easy to do this in India too. although
Param has been around for a while, linux based
supercomputers aka beowulfs have yet to catch on in India.
(if anyone can claim otherwise, please correct me).

apart from cost, linux supercomputers have the advantage
of being easier to program - the talent pool for
linux development is going to be a lot greater than for Param.
and writing the software to run on supercomputers
is usually the bigger headache than creating the supercomputer
itself. also it's possible to tweak the linux kernel to get
performance gains that would not be possible on a closed source
OS.

> "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."



> From: Frederick Noronha <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LIG] NCSA CREATES FASTEST IBM LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IN ACADEMIA 
> (fwd)

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:31:07 -0500
> From: "George(s) Lessard" <media@xxxxxxx>
> To: fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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)
>
>
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