Linux supercomputer rocks down under (Vnunet)

[Posted August 15, 2003 by ris]

Vnunet covers the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACcESS) at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. "It is based around an SGI Altix 3000 supercomputer, powered by 208 Intel Itanium 2 processors. Built on SGI's NUMAflex non uniform memory access scalable architecture, it boasts a hefty 208GB of main memory and also uses the new Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision graphics system."

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