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SGI has announced that it will install the company’s first
production cluster based on Intel Itanium processors at the Ohio
Supercomputer Center (OSC). The 146-processor system will provide
the Ohio research and education community with the world’s largest
system using the new Itanium architecture. Part of the cluster will
be devoted to the National Computational Grid Project.
“SGI is committed to bringing out the best, most powerful
Itanium architecture-based solutions to the high-performance
computing marketplace. We are delighted to continue our
relationship with OSC to improve the performance and functionality
of Linux clusters,” said Jan Silverman, vice president, Advanced
Systems, SGI.
OSC and SGI have a long history of working together on cluster
technology. The relationship includes development of system
software, applications software and support infrastructure concepts
that enable true production cluster computing (PCC). SGI and OSC
have been working on code testing and porting on the Itanium
architecture using a small test cluster that has been installed at
OSC since September 2000. Some of the results of this work were
showcased at SuperComputing 2000 in Dallas.