LinuxBIOS, BProc-Based Supercomputer For LANL 189
An anonymous reader writes "LANL will be receiving a 1024 node (2048 processor) LinuxBIOS/BProc based supercomputer late this year. The story is at this location. This system is unique in Linux cluster terms due to no disks on compute nodes, using LinuxBIOS and Beoboot to accomplish booting, and BProc for job startup and management. It is officially known as the Science Appliance, but is affectionately known as Pink to the team that is building much of it."
Uses (Score:1, Interesting)
Does anybody know other applications that supercomputers are being used for. I know some do weather predictions.
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Re:Uses (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anybody know other applications that supercomputers are being used for. I know some do weather predictions.
Ok, non-military uses, off the top of my head:
I'm sure there are plenty more applications for supercomputer power - any kind of complicated or chaotic system is a good candidate for modelling, especially when there's more than one unknown variable (multivariate analysis is complicated, to say the least).
Re:LinuxBIOS (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Floyd (Score:1, Interesting)
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Good Stuff (Score:3, Interesting)
Scary part is that this will be one of the top 5 supercomputers in the world.
Scary because you could buy all the hardware off the shelf for about half a million dollars.
On a lighter note:
"The Linux NetworX cluster will be used solely for unclassified computing, including testing on ASCI-relevant unclassified applications."
I think they mean text mode quake.
I guess they got tired of "Global Thermo-Nuclear War"
Re:Good Stuff (Score:3, Interesting)
That should give each node about 200 MB/s aggregate bandwidth (the best gigabit ethernet runs at 800 Mb/s or 100 MB/s), easily exeeding what can be achieved with much more expensive solutions.
About the cost of a nice house.
Put into perspective, a cluster that could outperform Japan's earth simulator would cost 2 million in hardware costs. Outperforming Seti@home's 3,000,000 users would require $10,000,000.
I know where my lotto money is going
Re:Why not use embedded tech? (Score:1, Interesting)