The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> writes: > and old email about numerical intensive clustering scalup ... with LLNL > and other gov. labs (just hrs before the effort was transferred and we > were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors). > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email920129 > > then press item a couple weeks later > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1 17feb92 > and then > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2 19jun92 re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#61 IBM to announce new MF's this year the 19jun92 press item includes quote about clustering coming as complete surprise to the company. the indifference to clustering also earlier had contributed to my wife not remaining very long in POK (responsible for mainframe loosely-coupled architecture); that and ongoing battles with the sna organization that the loosely-coupled operations needed to go thru vtam. nearly all the top supercomputers are now clusters (although they may be various kinds of clusters involving clustered combinations of smaller units that have various kinds of shared memory) http://www.top500.org/ LLNL wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory supercomputer wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
