SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster 202
green pizza writes "NASA has announced plans to cluster twenty 512-processor Silicon Graphics Inc Altix supercomputers connected to a 500-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage SAN. The Altix uses Itanium2 CPUs running Linux atop an Origin 3000-derrived architecture. NASA and SGI scaled Linux to 512 CPUs late last year. There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future. Lots of neat big iron project on the horizon!"
What would this be used for? (Score:4, Insightful)
Sounds quite insane, I'd love to see the practical reasons for this.
Re:Good News for intel (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Good News for intel (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Honest question: Why Linux? (Score:5, Insightful)
In essence, the BSD license would allow the creation of another Unix model where the core is identical or just similar, but the APIs would be used to lock users in. How would that solve IBM's problem? Or for that matter any Hardware vendors problem? It would not.