“SGI has demonstrated the first Linux cluster based on
Intel’s IA-64 Itanium processor, using the Supercomputing 99 show
as the venue for the event.”
“The demonstration achieved a number of public firsts including
the first Itanium processor-based cluster and the first technical
computing applications successfully run on the IA-64/Linux
platform. The demo was based entirely on open source components
including Cactus (an open-source simulation toolkit computing
collisions of black holes), MM5 (a multidimensional weather
simulation), Amira (an Advanced 3D Visualization and Volume
Modeling System), C compiler, Fortran compiler, Linux kernel, and
MPICH.”