These links are presented, to help in understanding the concept of building a world class supercomputer, out of off the shelf parts.
The Supercomputer Project involves linking over 200 Pentium-2 - Pentium-4 computers together in a parallel processing mode. Successful completion of this project by Global could place the company in a position of having one of the top 500 super computers in the world. The projected time line for this project is 1 year. After that time computing time could be rented out at fair market value.
Turning the U.S. into a super-computer power
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Antidumping Laws Trash Supercomputer Competition
Oak Ridge National Lab Selects IBM Supercomputer for global warming research
POWER4-based System Addresses Need in the U.S. for Powerful
Supercomputer to Investigate Earth's Climate
Compaq wins bids for academic supercomputer
By Stephen Shankland
Processor Wars Part 2: Vector Processing
Free ISP Subscribers To Create Virtual Supercomputer
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By Tim McDonald
NewsFactor Network
February 2, 2001
Juno's idea to sell the unused power housed in its customers' computers may be the first such commercial venture, setting up a new business model for ISPs.
Tera Computer Company to Acquire Supercomputer Pioneer Cray from SGI
Acquisition Creates a High-Performance and Supercomputing Powerhouse; Combined Company Holds Market Leadership and 21st Century Vision
IBM Unveils Fastest
Supercomputer Yet - Will
Test Nuclear Weapons Tests
By Nicole Volpe
Smarr to Keynote Mannheim Supercomputer Conference
While the semi-annual Top 500 list of supercomputer sites has in recent years been dominated by IBM Corp, SGI Inc, and Cray Inc at the very high end, Sun has been working hard to build its profile in the HPC market, particularly among genomics and other bioinformatics firms that cannot match the level of funding enjoyed by governmental and research institutions with the their sophisticated weapons and physics simulations, but who nonetheless need to acquire lots of computing power to do their work.
CRAY INC. SUPERCOMPUTERS ARE LARGEST AND FASTEST AMONG LEADING VENDORS ON WORLD'S "TOP500 SUPERCOMPUTERS" LIST
Cray Systems Average 34 Percent Faster Than Closest Major Competitor On Theoretical Speed Test and Retain World Record For Actual Speed
NEC and SGI Japan today signed a memorandum of understanding on the joint marketing of two of the companies' supercomputing products in Japan.
Linux cluster supercomputer uses Infiniband
14:21 Tuesday 30th October 2001 Computerwire.com
Using a subset of the Beowulf clustering technology, 17 of IBM's Netfinity servers containing 36 Pentium II chips and running an off-the-shelf copy of Linux matched the scalability and performance of a Cray supercomputer. The IBM system executed a computer graphics-rendering application called the PovRay benchmark
Networking Clustering
By JULIA KING
Open-source supercomputer beats Cray
March 16, 1999 Web posted at: 10:32 a.m. EST (1532 GMT)
How to Build a Pile of PCs Supercomputer
Peter Bastian
last updated: 11 January 1999
Department of Defense to install Linux supercomputer
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The Beowulf Project
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The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer
Scientists have found a cheaper way
to solve tremendously difficult computational problems:
connect ordinary PCs so that they can work together
While our first Beowulf-style parallel computer isn't built out of the most impressive hardware, we got tired of fighting for funding and went ahead with what we could find. Much like the classic Tale of Stone Soup
Parallel Computing Powerhouse
Many of the complex problems in this world were once impossible to solve due to the incredibly long time it takes to solve complex mathematical formulas. KiloClusters dramatically reduce computational processing time in a parallel computing environment by providing the power of up to thousands of computers working in unison.
Distributed Computing
KiloClusters are not only effective in parallel computing environments. They are also a reliable choice in batch or distributed computing environments. Each cluster can be configured to operate the batch software of your choice. Once installed, KiloClusters act in unison with the server, breaking down large complex problems into smaller batch sizes thus dramatically reducing computational time.
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