something for the geek astronomers to drool over

Kal (Andrew) · #1 22-08-2007, 08:40 PM

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Australia's black-hole hunters have one of the country's fastest computers at their disposal after a million-dollar overhaul of Swinburne University's supercomputing facilities.
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The new cluster runs CentOS Linux on more than a thousand Intel Clovertown quad-core processors, equipped with 2 terabytes of RAM.

Err, over 1 thousand quad core processors, nice!!!!

Ric · #2 22-08-2007, 11:00 PM

My little DSI II would love that RAM.

Ingo · #3 22-08-2007, 11:23 PM

Dang they should've just ran OSX. Why CentOS though? It's like...redhat enterprise, but free.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #4 23-08-2007, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Ingo

Dang they should've just ran OSX. Why CentOS though? It's like...redhat enterprise, but free.

I use CentOS 3.3 and 4.4 on all of our servers. Rock steady, fast, lean and free. No X-Windows - just the bare essentials. I've also dabbled with Linux clustering - and ran four nodes all linked via 100-base/T ethernet for some pretty incredible test results. Great if you're into lots of tedious number crunching.