[ Thanks to Ted
Staberow for this link. ]
“Argonne’s most powerful supercomputer is the “Chiba City
Project,” named for the futuristic city in William Gibson’s novel
Neuromancer. Consisting of 512 central processing units, all
running on the Linux operating system, it is intended for use by
universities, laboratories and industry to help advance the use of
state-of-the-art Linux clusters based on affordable industry
standard components in high-performance computing.”
“Chiba City provides a flexible development environment for
scalable open source software in four key categories: cluster
management, high-performance systems software (file systems,
schedulers and libraries), scientific visualization, and
distributed computing.”
“Conceived by Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science
Division, construction was planned and managed by engineers from
Argonne and VA Linux Professional Services, with support from VA
and IBM’s cluster hardware and software experts. VA Linux also
provided cluster management technology and certified new
high-performance Linux drivers for the gigabit ethernet cards and
graphics cards used in the scalable cluster.”