National lab to harness penguin power
Source: C|NET
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory plans to build the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer for use with national security projects.
The Livermore, Calif.-based supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920 of Intel's 2.4GHz Xeon processors, with a theoretical peak of 9.2 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). Each node will have 4GB of DDR SDRAM memory and 120GB of hard-disk space.
The cluster, to be completed by Linux NetworX this fall, would be the fastest Linux or Intel-based supercomputer, and one of the world's five fastest supercomputers.
