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California Digital and Lawrence Livermore Deploy Fastest Linux Cluster

California Digital, Quadrics, and Intel have announced that they have successfully deployed the "most powerful Linux supercomputer ever built", a 4,096 Itanium 2 processor based Linux cluster code named "Thunder" at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Is there another one?

Posted May 16, 2004 22:47 UTC (Sun) by jneves (guest, #2859) [Link]

A guy from IBM in Portugal told me (and the rest of the room) that IBM had deployed a 40 Teraflops cluster with 2500 CPU in Barcelona. Anyone knows anything about this?

California Digital and Lawrence Livermore Deploy Fastest Linux Cluster

Posted May 20, 2004 8:45 UTC (Thu) by fjorba (subscriber, #6175) [Link]

Not yet. They promised the (previous) government to built it, and I don't have confirmation that it will be Linux-based.

California Digital and Lawrence Livermore Deploy Fastest Linux Cluster

Posted May 20, 2004 21:07 UTC (Thu) by rmini (subscriber, #4991) [Link]

Gotta get rid of those Itanics somehow. ;)

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