US Army Linux Supercomputer

[James R. Sissel]

Just curious but are we talking about the same kind of clustering?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Taylor 
To: 'Brian Densmore' ; kclug at kclug.org 
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: RE: US Army Linux Supercomputer

M$ does offer clustering.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/clustering/default.asp

We use various cluster solutions at work, including M$.

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From: owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Densmore
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:21 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: US Army Linux Supercomputer

Chump change! NASA's building an SGI 10,240 CPU Linux cluster. Don't recall the cpus, probably 
Intels.
Let's see M$ build a Windows cluster that size that doesn't take out a small city with it when it 
crashes.
Oh wait... M$ Windows doesn't cluster. ;')
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) [mailto:jmcqk6 at umkc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:11 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: US Army Linux Supercomputer

IBM announced that they will be building a supercomputer for the Army, that will have 2,300 AMD 64 
bit processors and run linux, making it the biggest Linux based supercomputer in the world 
(distributed computing projects aside?)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040803/tc_nm/tech_ibm_dc