IDG Singapore: IBM Plans World's Most Powerful Linux Supercomputer
Jul 30, 2003, 16:00 (1 Talkback[s])
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"A Japanese national research laboratory has placed an order
with IBM Corp. for a supercomputer cluster that, when completed, is
expected to be the most powerful Linux-based computer in the
world.
"The order, from Japan's National Institute for Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), was announced by the
company on Wednesday as it simultaneously launched the eServer 325
system on which the cluster will be largely based. The eServer 325
is a 1U rack mount system that includes two Advanced Micro Devices
Inc. Opteron processors of either model 240, 242 or 246, said IBM
in a statement.
"The supercomputer ordered by AIST will be built around 1,058 of
these eServer 325 systems, to make a total of 2,116 Opteron 246
processors, and an additional number of Intel Corp. servers that
include a total of 520 of the company's third-generation Itanium 2
processor, also known by its code name Madison..."
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