Re: Large parallel computers

Sandy Harris (sandy.harris@sympatico.ca)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:00:19 -0500

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Robert Hettinga wrote:

> At 10:09 AM -0500 on 3/8/99, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
> > Didn't some government agency recently install a massively parallel
> > computer, with a few thousand Pentium Pros. Does anyone remember stats on
> > that computer?
>
> Wasn't it at Los Alamos, running a parallel version of Linux called Beowulf(?)?

They have an Alpha-based Boewulf:
http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon

Main Boewulf page:
http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov

Boewulf (6 Stromgarms, 64 megs each) on a ~$2000 PCI card:
http://www.dnaco.net/~kragen//sa-beowulf

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