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TechWeb: IBM, NCSA Team on Linux SuperComputing Cluster
Submitted by David Lapointe; posted on Thursday, January 25, 2001
``The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) will collaborate with IBM on a pair of Linux clusters, a sign that `proves the legitimacy of Linux at the high end,' according to Hurwitz Group President Judith Hurwitz. The first cluster will be installed next month and use 250 IBM eServer x330 thin servers to run Red Hat Linux. Each server will operate a pair of 1 GHz Pentium III processors. The second cluster will be built next summer and run Turbolinux on 160 Itanium 64-bit CPUs, says Dave Gelardi of IBM's pSeries Server Group. The cluster will be the second largest Linux-based supercomputer in the world, claim IBM officials. IBM's Big Blue and other supercomputers run AIX, but the NCSA chose Linux because `the level of acceptance in the scientific community is a key piece,' as the NCSA's Robert Tennington notes. Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the concepts the NCSA plans to explore using the Linux clusters. Cooperative processing between IBM's Linux users and AIX users is likely to take place, predicts Gelardi.''
Full story:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010116S0018
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