On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Paul Raulerson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Kind of along those lines, I had the opportunity yesterday to tour the data
> center
> up at Baylor University, and one of the more interesting things they had up
> there
> was a supercomputer - from HP! Running Intel nodes and Red hat Linux no
> less!
>
> http://insidehpc.com/2007/09/27/baylor-university-purchases-hp-cluster/


You might also be interested in the latest supercomputer rankings:
http://www.top500.org/lists/2008/11/press-release

Note that the number 1 supercomputer, Roadrunner, uses RHEL and Fedora as
its operating systems.  Doing a quick glance at the supercomputer's OSs, it
appears that Linux is the preferred OS on all architectures.

Interesting to note too that Play Station 3's enhanced 9 core CPU from IBM
is starting to show up in the top 500 supercomputers.

I was a bit impressed, but it led t me to wonder if MPE/ix and HP3Ks have
> ever
> developed clustering capabilities and were tey ever used in great big
> computing
> tasks?
>
> A casual google search has has basically turned up nil results.


Of course, if someone(s) were to layer MPE on top of Linux...

Pete

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