LinuxWorld: “Thunder”–N. America’s Fastest Linux Supercomputer

“A Linux cluster deployed at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and codenamed ‘Thunder’ yesterday delivered 19.94
teraflops of sustained performance, making it the most powerful
computer in North America–and the second fastest on Earth.

“The 4,096 Itanium 2 processor based cluster is the largest
Itanium 2 processor deployment, as well as the largest
implementation of Quadrics’ low-latency QsNet(II) interconnect
technology–technologies which, in combination, allow Thunder to
achieve record cluster efficiency of 86.9%, an important metric in
measuring cluster scalability…”

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