LinuxDNA Supercharges Linux with the Intel C/C++ Compiler (Linux Journal)

I have about 1800 Itaniums running in my linux cluster (dual socket). 1700 running user jobs and about 100 for filesystem serving.

We have over 1024 of them running on our SGI Altix machines.

The itaniums are good for scientific computing.

SDSC had some as did Caltech and Argonne Nat'l Labs.

Given that these were released as early as 2002, they don't have energy saving features.

As for performance, Our Mercury cluster was fairly comparable to our old Xeon cluster:

Given that they had about 1250 servers versus the 872 on Mercury and the
top500 numbers were about 10TF versus the 7.2TF Mercury had.