[An interesting day at ILUG-Chennai. Those who remember Anand Babu would also find this intereting ;) - Sandip]
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2004-July/011279.html Talk : Taste the THUNDER Speaker : Mr Anand Babu <ab at gnu.org.in>, VP CDC, USA & Member, FSF-I. Date : Sat Jul 17 17:00 IST 2004 Venue : ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, CSD 320, ESB, IIT-Madras. The super-computer code named THUNDER was built was for Lawrence Livermore National Labs (http://www.llnl.gov) by California Digital Corporation, USA. It has 4096 Itanium2 64 bit Processors, 8TB of RAM, Quadrics Interconnect and runs GNU/Linux. Code named "Thunder", with a performance of 20 trillion floating point operations per second, it has been ranked second in the TOP500 list of the worlds most powerful supercomputers maintained at http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06 Anand Babu, a full-time free software developer is a core developer behind THUNDER, who ensured that all the software he wrote for Thunder was released under GNU GPL. [...] AB was briefly introduced, and immediately, AB started the talk on THUNDER with a torrent of information about the harware and firmware that make up the THUNDER super-computer, which is in fact an assembly of 1000 individual interconnected computers sans screen, keyboard or mouse. Each mother board has four Itanium2 processors, advanced bmc, sensors and each system is connected to the other with Quadrics interconnect. Hardware errors are handled with a great deal of sophistication. Each of the 1000 serial ports are connected to a hub called calypso. With FreeIPMI, and a collection of other tools, it is possible to configure even the bios of all the 1000 computers with a single command or even address a specific machine using its IP address from a single node. Essentially, the network is automated, and manual tasks are minimal that could be taken care by a single sys admin, to whom to the super-computer appears as a single file system. [...] [Lots more at the link. Do check - Sandip] - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.com Home: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
