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New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to 1,024 CPUs (Computerworld Australia)
Computerworld Australia
takes a look at new supercomputer under construction at SGI.
"Silicon Graphics is building an Altix supercomputer for the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) that will run a single Linux
operating system image across 1,024 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 3TB of
shared memory."
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Is that all? Posted Jul 20, 2004 1:55 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] Pft! Is that all you can muster? 1,024 CPUs _only_. I dare you to do 2,048. In fact, I double dare you - do 4,096. Ha!Linux - it's a toy (TM). ;-)
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