“Exploring big scientific mysteries requires big computing
power.”
“Ed Seidel, researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications and astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational Physics, studies black holes and neutron stars in an
attempt to understand the basic properties of space and time.”
“Seidel and the research team he works with use Linux and an
open source program called Cactus they developed to aid them in
their work. And they are eagerly anticipating running those
programs on one of the first supercomputers with Intel’s Itanium
processor.”
“The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana announced on Tuesday
that NCSA will install two IBM Linux clusters at NCSA, creating the
world’s fastest Linux supercomputer in academia, and the fourth
fastest supercomputer overall in the world.”