Linux, Los Alamos, Cell Processor, 1.6 petaflops...

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 8 00:43:46 UTC 2006


Saw this earlier this evening:

IBM to Build 1.6 Petaflops Super for Los Alamos Lab
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn090706-story01.html

"Los Alamos plans to build Roadrunner in three stages. The first stage 
is to get the Opteron machines installed, which will comprise just under 
80 teraflops of computing capacity and 16,000 Opteron processor cores. 
In the second phase, IBM will provide Los Alamos with some Cell-base 
blade servers and lots of programming assistance to tune Linux for the 
Cell chip and, more importantly, for the specific workloads at Los Alamos."

We win again. Seems to me Linux (the kernel) and the Cell processor are 
getting a lot of positive press.
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