Heise Online: High-Performance Linux Cluster in Operation in Chemnitz | Linux Today

Heise Online: High-Performance Linux Cluster in Operation in Chemnitz

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 11, 2007

“On February 7, the CHiC massive parallel Linux cluster with
2,152 processors distributed across 538 server nodes went into
operation in Chemnitz. The new Revision F generation of AMD’s
Opteron CPUs, which support DDR2 RAM and AMD’s “Secure Virtual
Machine (SVM) virtualization technology, are used. Infiniband is
used to connect the nodes, which are equipped with IBM server
boards.

“The Technical University of Chemnitz invested a total of 2.64
million euros in the CHiC…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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