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spankers

04-15-2005, 09:05 AM

Europes fastest supercomputer booted up today in Barcelona. Its name is MareNostrum and it runs Linux.
MareNostrum is built entirely of commercially available components, including 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM Power PC 970FX processors and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers. I wonder how many of the top supercomputers in the world are running Linux.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/14/euro.supercomputer.ap/index.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/power/marenostrum/about.html

Ioman

04-15-2005, 09:29 AM

Whoa think of how fast the ummm.....hmmmm.... Solitaire game would be? hehe

llbbl

04-15-2005, 11:54 AM

I wonder how many of the top supercomputers in the world are running Linux.

Umm like every single one .. lol

MS doesn't support clusters that large. There is absolutely no way, that I know of, to take advantage of that kind of processing power if they are all running Windows XP Professional or 2003 Server.

llbbl

04-15-2005, 11:58 AM

I reffer you to this thread.

http://forums.designtechnica.com/showthread.php?p=49969

Ok maybe not Linux, but certain a Unix derivative.