The Grid’s Virtual Machine Room Narrows Gap Between Desktop
Systems and Supercomputers
“The National Computational Science Alliance will introduce its
first 128 processor workstation supercluster running the Linux
operating system as the latest addition to the National Technology
Grid, its arsenal of powerful computational resources. The
supercluster, called Roadrunner, will be unveiled at an April 8
dedication of the Supercluster Computing Facility of the
Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC), located on
the University of New Mexico (UNM) campus.”
” “Scalable clusters represent the most rapidly growing
architecture of high-end computing,” said Larry Smarr, director of
the Alliance and the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. “By filling the gap between desktop workstations
and teraflop-scale supercomputing systems, clusters provide a very
cost-effective source of computing power close to the user.”