To start a supercomputer company it only takes two brothers - Swiss Dalco delivers 500 processor system to ETH Zuerich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ETH Zuerich has installed a large Linux cluster that will be expanded later this month to 500 processors, 250 Gbyte of memory and 2 Tbyte of data. Because the machine is worth more that 1.5 million Swiss Francs, European regulations require an open tender that has to adhere to strict rules. So who won this tender? One of the big supercomputer companies you would assume. Not so, a small Swiss company Dalco employing 8 people but with a yearly turnover in the 10 million Franc range, solved the legal issues, the technical problems, convinced the ETH they could do the job, and offered the lowest price. Hence the cluster, called Asgard, was installed by the company of Christian and Francois Dallman. The cluster runs Linux, provided by SuSE which has a number of additional tools for running a cluster and supporting parallel programmes. Read more: http://www.hoise.com/primeur/00/articles/corner/AE-PL-06-00-5.html More articles from Ad Emmen: http://www.top500.org/Articles/ Best Wishes, Stefanovic _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
