Saturday June 30, 2007 TACC Ranger: Open Womps Proprietary
The TACC Ranger cluster now under construction could soon dominate the TOP500:
"One of Ranger's biggest impacts, though, might be the way it is built. Sun said it is constructed with open technologies, and its reusable components can be used to build both small and large High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters.
Bjorn Andersson, Sun's director of HPC systems, revealed that the "secret sauce" is innovation at the system level. "It enables us to radically reduce the amount of complexity for petascale level clusters," he said, "making them easier to deploy and manage, and more efficient to own and operate." Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( June 30, 2007 09:18 AM ) PermalinkComments:
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