NASA bought the largest autonomous Linux system in the world
Silicon Graphics (SGI) and NASA announced that the space agency has chosen the SGI Altix supercomputer to meet its high-performance computer needs. This system was acquired as part of NAS Technology Refresh, a four-step process for upgrading equipment designed to replace the Columbia supercomputer built on SGI Altix 3000.
The new SGI Altix system will be installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing building located at the Ames Research Center in California. This system will be the first supercomputer working with 2048 processor cores (1024 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processors) and 4 TB of RAM under one copy of Linux. Thus, the new system becomes the largest autonomous Linux system in the world.
The new SGI Altix system will be installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing building located at the Ames Research Center in California. This system will be the first supercomputer working with 2048 processor cores (1024 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processors) and 4 TB of RAM under one copy of Linux. Thus, the new system becomes the largest autonomous Linux system in the world.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/12557/
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