NASA to use giant SGI Linux Itanium cluster

Nomad559

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Wed Jul-28-04 07:27 AM
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NASA to use giant SGI Linux Itanium cluster

Edited on Wed Jul-28-04 08:26 AM by Nomad559

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17491

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A CLUSTER OF 20 supercomputers each of which uses 512 Itanium 2 microprocessors will be used by NASA to chart space, Silicon Graphics said.

The system consists of twenty 512 CPU SGI Altix systems, using 500TB Infinite Storage, amounting to 10,240 Itanium 2s in all.

The computers will power the Space Exploration Simulator which runs on the Linux operating system.

Edit- Found another link

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/28/HNnasalinux_1.html

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