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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:43:46AM +0100, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> 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.

It is actually 16000 cell processors (each of which has 8 SPEs and 1
powerpc based core).  I haven't found anything that says how many opterons
it will have as main processors though.

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