Sounds good to me... Jamie >Well I hardly ever make Thursday meetings anyway, but a buddy of mine, >Matthew Sottile >who schooled here at UO, is now working with linux clusters at lanl. >I got to spend a few days down in Sante Fe where he's living, and tour >the lab where he works -- it's mostly unclassified stuff, twerking with >systems that wouldn't otherwise be: they got folks in hardware, kernel >land, visuals, and the rest. I got to see 'xed', the alpha-linux >testbed. It's made of 104 nodes of Compaq DS-10 (462Mhz, 1GB RAM, DEC >Tulip 100baseT) + 4 nodes of Compaq ES40 (4x833Mhz, 16GB RAM, Alteon >Gbit) + 16 nodes of Compaq CS-20 (2x833Mhz, 2GB RAM, intel 100baseT) + >switches + another ES-40 for the frontend. When I was there, every node >was running folding : > well a few were out of commission, but hey... >We checked the 'top 100' list while I was there, and they (lanl) had 4 >of 'em! The 2 teraflop testbed at #6, #8 is the ASCI Bliue Mtn at 1.6 >TF, the 690 Gflop 'Origin' was at #33, and the 344 Gflop 'Wolverine' was >at #83... The dual Ghz G4's out now are (max-)rated at ~15 Gflops, but >that's using the AltiVec. So anyway, they're working on something >called ClusterMatic, which is basically their distro -- they give it >away at conferences and shows like super computing... But Matt is coming >through Eugene on March 28th, and offered to make an appearance at our >Thursday evening meeting if there's interest. He talked about bringing >their latest toy/creation, which they call the 'lunch box cluster'. >It's more of a small toolchest, but sweet and a great proof of concept. >I think it's a protoype for a new weather sampling system... >linuxbios is developed there, too. Also: I heard lots of details that >grounded me out of some notions I've been entertaining about linux. >Fun! So Whaddya think? > >http://www.acl.lanl.gov > >-- >-- >Ben Barrett >Software & Systems Engineer >counterclaim >Phone: 541.484.9235 >Fax: 541.484.9193
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