Aug 1, 2003 : IBM to Deliver Linux Supercomputer

📅 August 1, 2003 - IBM (ibm.com) announced yesterday that an IBM eServer Linux supercomputer has been ordered by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan's largest national research organization. IBM said that when the system is completed, it will deliver more than 11 trillion calculations per second, making it the world's most powerful Linux-based supercomputer.

According to the company, the supercomputer has a total of 2,636 processors and will include 1,058 eServer 325 systems, which were introduced today with 2,116 AMD Opteron processors.
The eServer 325 systems to be delivered to AIST each contain two AMD Opteron processors in a 1U (1.75") rack mounted form factor. AIST will run SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on the supercomputer.
"The eServer 325 powered by the Opteron processor offers strong performance and extended memory addressability while ensuring backward compatibility that preserves customers existing 32-bit software investments. Many high performance computing customers have expressed interest in acquiring this technology," said David Turek, vice-president of IBM Deep Computing. "Our Deep Computing on Demand offering provides high performance computing customers the flexibility to purchase these new systems or access them on demand, paying for the compute cycles used."
IBM also said the supercomputer will be integrated with other non-Linux systems to form a distributed computing Grid, enabling collaboration between corporations, academia and government.

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