Japan's Newest Linux Supercluster: 13TB RAM

green pizza writes "Following its sale of a 10240 processor cluster to NASA, Silicon Graphics Inc has announced that it's supplying a 2048 processor Altix 3700 Bx2 to the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. Aside from running Linux on Itanium2 processors, the beast also features 13 TB of RAM!"

oh my...

[Quasar1999]

I remember back in my electronics course when we had to design the flip-flop grid for memory... the teacher said he'd give 100% to anyone that could draw out 64K of memory... 13TB just makes me cringe...

Nuke Simulator?

[k0de]

So an American company is selling a computer to a Japanese organization that is ideal for simulating nuclear explosions. Interesting.

Honest curiosity

[erroneus]

I hear gobs about huge clusters and Linux as the OS that makes it all happen but I don't think I've ever heard other OSes uses like this.

Could someone make an "off the top of their head" list of SuperComputing cluster and OSes that are used in them?

I *am* a Linux user and I'm actually kinda curious if Microsoft has an answer to this area of computing?

Others aren't necessarily evil...

[elgatozorbas]

Sorry, the gloves come off when Europeans dare to judge us unfairly just because our country (and Britian) has the cojones to oppose evil in the world. Just because you guys have given up trying to change the world for the better, doesn't mean we will.

I will not go into a discussion about the methods you use to better the world, but will share you a consideration a lot of Europeans have about the US foreign policy: have you ever considered why some of these evils in the world don't turn to Europe, only to the U.S.?

Z