NASA Supercomputer

Would it be eligible for the Single-Machine Cruncher comp :D

How noisy is that room, b-jesus. Glad it's not my electric bill.. but hey you get free hot water!

That lass at the start where is her accent from?
 
I lust for more information! What type of processors are they? What operating system does it run? NASA has been a bit leary of Linux for mission-critical operations so I bet it's running some sort of proprietary UNIX like IRIX or HP-UX.

10 petabytes of tape backup with robots to change the tapes? Sign me up.

EDIT: The vital stats from top500
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System Name  	     Columbia
Site 	             NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
System Family 	     SGI Altix
System Model 	     SGI Altix 3700
Computer 	     SGI Altix 1.5 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
Vendor 	             SGI
URL 	             [url]http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/[/url]...
Application area     Not Specified
Installation Year    2004

Altix is Silicon Graphics's line of servers and supercomputers. Columbia is composed of 20 Altix 3000 clusters each of which contains 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors running Linux. The nodes are connected together with a Voltaire InfiniBand ISR 9288 288 port switch with transfer speeds of up to 10 gigabits (or 10240 megabytes) per second, 10 gigabit Ethernet and multiple 1 gigabit Ethernet nodes.

Shame there's no Itanium2 FAH client...

;)
 
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He mentioned a room of X2's at some point, which are 'different'. I wonder if he'd be referring to the dual cores, although I'm probably way off.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
The nodes are connected together with a Voltaire InfiniBand ISR 9288 288 port switch with transfer speeds of up to 10 gigabits (or 10240 megabytes) per second, 10 gigabit Ethernet and multiple 1 gigabit Ethernet nodes.
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10 gigabit.. IIRC that's 10000Mbit... 1250Mbytes/sec ;) :p
 
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