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Cray Releases Latest Version of Its Linux Operating System Equipped With New Cluster Compatibility Mode
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| One of the most important features in this
| latest version of the Cray Linux Environment
| is the introduction of the new Cluster
| Compatibility Mode, which provides users
| with a full-featured cluster environment.
| Cluster Compatibility Mode is a fully
| standard x86 Linux environment that allows
| for simple, out-of-the-box installation and
| running of parallel ISV applications without
| porting, re-linking or recompilation.
| Cluster Compatibly Mode also allows for
| multiple MPI libraries.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cray-releases-latest-version-of-its-linux-operating-system-equipped-with-new-cluster-compatibility-mode-2010-04-14?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Build It And They Will Come
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| I'm talking about purchasing and installing
| a brand new Linux cluster in a pure Windows
| shop and having any expectations that it
| will be used. Your co-workers will probably
| look at you funny, and they might stand way
| over on the other side of the elevator
| during that ride up to the fourth floor, but
| don't count on them knocking your door down
| begging for access to your shiny new Linux
| resource.
|
| [...]
|
| Finally, it was time for our first full
| production run. Voila! In just two hours our
| little 176-core 64-bit cluster ate up data
| and spit out the results for 1,500 runs --
| previously a task that took 3 - 4 people
| three days. Yesterday I checked on the
| cluster and noticed that our new users had
| recently finished their 4,400th run. I
| called on them to pass on my congratulations
| and was told that their P/I was thrilled at
| the increase in productivity the cluster was
| providing.
|
| Now that word of this is out we have new
| application porting activities identified
| and in the works. A Linux success story!
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/build-it-and-they-will-come
Recent:
Cray inks $45m super pact with DoD
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| This Army lab also has a bunch of different
| Linux Networx clusters with several thousands
| cores across all of the machines (SGI ate the
| carcass of Linux Networx in February 2008).
| The ARL also has two Cray XT5 machines, one
| for production called MRAP, with 10,400 cores
| rated at 95.7 teraflops) and a baby machine
| for development. (MRAP is short for Mine
| Resistant Ambush Protected, and refers to
| Humvee and other vehicles used by the Army).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/24/cray_dod_deals/
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