:LinuxInsider: Fast NASA Action Begets World's Largest Linux Supercomputer
LinuxInsider: Fast NASA Action Begets World's Largest Linux Supercomputer Apr 1, 2005, 00 :15 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (10117 reads) (Other stories by Paul Korzeniowski)
"The space shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003 sparked development of the world's second largest supercomputer, a system with 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors capable of performing 51.87 trillion calculations per second.
"Not only did the supercomputer, appropriately dubbed Columbia, stretch Linux's performance boundaries, but it also strained NASA's installation capabilities and the manufacturing ability of the hardware supplier, Silicon Graphics Inc. That's because the supercomputer went from design to deployment in 120 days rather than the years typically associated with building such a complicated system..."
