LAWRENCE LIVERMORE TO ADD SUPERCOMPUTING POWER TO ASCI PROJECT.

Mainframe Computing, October, 2001

SGI Federal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SGI, a provider of high-performance computing and visualization solutions for technical and creative users, has teamed up with Linux cluster computing expert Linux NetworX to build three Parallel Capacity Resource (PCR) Linux cluster computing systems totaling 472 Pentium 4 processors for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) ongoing computing element. With a theoretical peak performance of 857 gigaFLOP/s, the largest of the three systems with 252 Pentium 4 processors, named PCR P4A, will be one the fastest Linux clusters ever built.

Linux clustering, an alternative to traditional supercomputing, is a method of linking multiple computers together to form a...

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