IBM: Dave Turek on Linux Clusters

“Linux clustering has come a long way since the Beowulf
days and technology is now, I’d say, a significant discriminator.
What sort of hardware does IBM make available in the cluster
space?

“The principal form of hardware that we make available are
pre-integrated collections of servers in multiple form factors,
either the classic U-based kinds of form factors, these pizza box
kinds of implementations or also blade-based kinds of servers.
These all fit into conventional racks to concentrate a lot of
compute power in a small volumetric space…”

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