[rescue] good sources for USIII + systems

[John Floren]

On 1/27/08, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 26 January 2008 23:40, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >> On Jan 22, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >>> That's a much bigger configuration that what you're looking at,
> >>> though.
> >>>  And it's definitely not compact.  And I don't think you can get an
> >>> Opteron system that big.
> >>
> >> You can get Opteron systems quite a bit larger than that.
> >>
> >> 32-CPU systems from several places, on up to 144CPU supercomputers.
> >
> > I'm sure you can get a larger than 144 CPU Opteron box from Cray. :)
>
> But will it be a cluster of a single system image system?
> _______________________________________________

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.

John
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