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Monday October 02, 2006
TACC Supercomputer
A great news to share with everyone, but seeing that this news has appeared in several other blogs in here, I guess this is old news by now. TACC has been awarded $59M by NSF for a huge Sun supercomputer that will consist of over 13,000 AMD opteron processors and 1.7 petabyte of storage. For more details, stay tune to Marc's Blog.
After reading all the news and blogs about this win, I was kind of a little disappointed. Not that I'm disappointed with the news, but rather on the fact that most of the info and questions people asked are mainly on the hardware. What is the processor? What network interconnect? How much memory/storage space? What about power and cooling? etc. Of course I won't deny the fact that the hardware architecture is the most important factor, but I just don't think that Sun is chosen just because of that, and also because Sun is able to offer much more in terms of HPC Solution -- software included. We have great management tools like N1 Grid Engine and N1 System Manager. Our development tools, Sun Studio compilers and performance analyzer etc, are excellent for HPC. Also not to mentioned that Sun has many partners, CoEs, collaborators who are well-known experts in their own HPC fields, experts who can help Sun to value-add to our customers.
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