[ Thanks to Cy
Guy for this link. ]
“Dell (Nasdaq:DELL – news) today announced that its cluster of
Dell PowerEdge servers located at Cornell University has been named
to the “Top 500 Supercomputing Sites.”
“Named ‘Velocity,’ the cluster of Dell PowerEdge
servers enables researchers at Cornell to study complex, real-world
applications previously reserved for multimillion-dollar
supercomputers or mainframes. A server cluster is usually defined
as two or more interconnected servers that perform as a highly
efficient system.”
“There are several Dell clusters at CTC. Velocity, which made
the Top 500, is a cluster of 64 Dell PowerEdge 6350 Servers,
each of which has four Intel Pentium III Xeon 500 megahertz (MHz)
processors, 4 gigabytes of RAM and 50 gigabytes of disk space.
The servers are connected to a Dell PowerVault 200S Storage system
with 4 terabytes of storage capacity, and a 4 terabyte Dell
PowerVault 130T Tape Library. …Velocity is one of the first
systems running Microsoft Windows 2000 to appear in the top
500.”