Red Hat and Platform Computing Collaborate to Deliver Integrated HPC Solution
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| HPC Solution, that fully integrates Platform's Open Cluster Stack1 with Red
| Hat Enterprise Linux.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071113/20071113006137.html?.v=1
This comes amid:
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| 30th Edition of TOP500 List of World’s Fastest Supercomputers Released, Big
| Turnover Among the Top 10 Systems
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http://top500.org/blog/2007/11/09/30th_edition_top500_list_world_s_fastest_supercomputers_released_big_turnover_among_top_10_systems
Related:
Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
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| The interest in the PS3 really was for two main reasons," explains Khanna, an
| assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth who
| specializes in computational astrophysics. "One of those is that Sony did
| this remarkable thing of making the PS3 an open platform, so you can in fact
| run Linux on it and it doesn't control what you do."
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer
Appro Signs Weapons Lab Supercomputer Deal
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| The $26 million agreement under the new TLCC (Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster)
| program calls for Appro to provide eight rack-mounted clusters with aggregate
| peak performance of 437 teraflops and 96.8 aggregate terabytes of memory. A
| $15.8 million contract option could boost these totals to 620 teraflops and
| 143 terabytes of memory, an Appro spokesperson said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2192303,00.asp
Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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| There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
| of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
| always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
| fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
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