[rescue] good sources for USIII + systems

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Sun Jan 27 14:45:09 CST 2008


>From: John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/01/27 Sun AM 11:15:19 CST
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] good sources for USIII + systems

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>We just got a Cray at work, one of the new XT-4's. It doesn't have
>many nodes, just 20-odd, but it's scaleable to MANY more. I don't
>really understand how it's set up, but it looks like there's some sort
>of complex system in which there are several types of nodes and a
>bunch of different networks... doesn't seem as well laid-out as the
>Blue Gene, but still pretty cool.
>You wouldn't use it for serving webpages, though.

Depends on who's paying the power bill ;^)

(after all, this is Rescue)

Lionel



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