LWN: Comments on "Japan buys 2048-node Linux cluster"

Japan buys 2048-node Linux cluster

larry — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:10:11 +0000

Or 2 if they buy the theoretical (?) max'd out Altix w/1024 CPU's.

bronson — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 06:26:18 +0000

You're probably thinking of NASA's new 10240 processor monster, also by SGI.

mbp — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 03:17:22 +0000

I thought I saw this reported elsewhere as 10240 CPUs.

emkey — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:07:22 +0000

Actually there could be as few as four nodes if this system is anything like the recently installed NASA cluster. IE, each node could have 512 CPU's.