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Our Blogs Core Dump Microsoft scrapes into top 500 supercomputer list, but IBM rules supreme
Our Blogs Core Dump Microsoft scrapes into top 500 supercomputer list, but IBM rules supreme | Microsoft scrapes into top 500 supercomputer list, but IBM rules supreme |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 19 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Well, even though the Windows HPC Server software hasn't quite reached release candidate stage (which reminds us of the time it took Vista to come to market) it is used on the number 23 supercomputer. Featured Whitepaper
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But to put that into perspective, it’s roughly one-quarter of the performance of the number 2 supercomputer (an IBM Blue Gene at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and less than one-eleventh of Roadrunner's. So Microsoft still has a long way to go, but it’s also the actual hardware that’s important. Dell aren’t using the IBM Cell processor, after all. And Abe isn’t exclusively running Windows either. While it is the fastest Windows cluster to date, Abe also runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4! "Our experience with Windows HPC Server 2008 has been impressive," said Robert Pennington, deputy director of the NCSA. "Deploying it was much easier than we expected, and the performance results have surpassed our expectations. When we deployed Windows on our cluster, which has more than 1000 nodes, we went from bare metal to running the LINPACK benchmark programs in just four hours. The performance of Windows HPC Server 2008 has yielded efficiencies that are among the highest we've seen for this class of machine." Microsoft will also be happy to see that two other Windows HPC systems made the top 100. Which systems were they, and what is one little IBM and Microsoft surprise? Please read on to page 3. |
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