itanium2

[Daniel Kidger]

Pacific Northwestern National Lab has an Itanium II cluster.

There were only around 80 processors (as 2U 1GHz dual-cpu HP rx2600's) when
I visited earlier in the year, but the final size will be around 1400 CPUs.

e.g.
http://www.pnl.gov/news/2002/computer.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2002-04/dnnl-wmp061302.php

I also know of 5 other sites that have smaller Itanium II clusters.


(for information Doug's HP zx2000 nodes are AFAIK single CPU desktop boxes
that rack as 4U units - so probably offer better price performance as long
as you have the space)

Yours,
Daniel.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Johnson [mailto:djohnson at osc.edu]
Sent: 30 September 2002 21:12
To: beowulf at beowulf.org
Cc: Galen Arnold; Lauro L. A. Whately
Subject: Re: itanium2


Hi,

It appears that the original question was about Itanium 2 (see subject
line), not the first generation IA64. We've ordered a 300 processor
Itanium 2 cluster based on the HP zx2000 systems. These have a chipset
that was developed by HP and we've been very impressed with the
performance. There is also a 'whitebox' board available from Intel but we
do not have any experience with these.

For distribution we've been using the redhat-7.2 for IA64 (needed a newer
kernel for the HP chipset, all else works ok). We've also received a beta
copy of the 'redhat linux advanced workstation for itanium 2' but have not
had a chance to install it on our systems.

Doug


On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Galen Arnold wrote:

> Lauro,
> 
> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/IA64LinuxCluster/
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Lauro L. A. Whately wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   is someone running a cluster of itanium ?
> > how is it working ? which motherboard are you using ?
> > and Linux distribution ?
> > 
> >   Thanks in advance !
> > Lauro Whately.



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