Sun Microsystems on revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that
could hit a peak performance of 2 petaflops while HP and Microsoft gang up to give High-Performance computers a mass appeal by making it easier to deploy, support and manage. Customers can ‘realistically expect to have a 64-node cluster deployed and running within two hours’, HP said in a statement.
The 2007 Top 500 supercomputer list came out this week. As I remember the top 10 contained six machines from IBM, two from Cray and one each from SGI and Dell. All systems were running Linux.
No Sun no HP and most certainly no MS.
The 2007 Top 500 supercomputer list came out this week. As I remember the top 10 contained six machines from IBM, two from Cray and one each from SGI and Dell. All systems were running Linux.
Number 6, ASCI Purple, runs AIX. The Federation on Linux project was killed