SGI and NASA ready most powerful Linux computer ever

Robin Humble rjh-tkNKonCg4laeFQavDyXPBQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Jul 29 08:13:27 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:18:47PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7317694195.html

that's a lot of boot penguins :-)

BTW, we partition our 1680cpu altix into one kernel per 32 or 64cpus
otherwise any hardware or software glitch would take down the whole
machine. so NASA are being very brave.

cheers,
robin
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