[ug-bosug] Interesting News

[Amit Sharma]

For those who are not aware, Lustre is opensource aswell.
See www.lustre.org or www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/index.jsp

regards,
Amit



ameya agnihotri wrote:
> Point to note:
> "AMD quad-cores processors"
> "Thumpers: 72 (1.728 PB)"
> "Tape storage: STK SL8500"
> 
> All of it is a commodity hardware!!!!!
> I am sure OS running on it will be either Solaris or Linux ( commodity 
> again!!!)
> 
> Thats quite amazing!! Everything build on commodity stuff...
> 
> 
> On Feb 7, 2008 8:23 PM, Amit Sharma <Amit.Sharma at sun.com 
> <mailto:Amit.Sharma at sun.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Just to add, some of the most innovative and new products from Sun have
>     made their debut at the Ranger, among them is the world's biggest IB
>     switch Mangum (with 3456 ports).
> 
>     It also deploys Lustre (distributed file system), infact lustre is
>     deployed at 7 of the worlds top 10 Super Computers.
> 
>     Some more stats on the Ranger:
> 
>     TFLOPs: approximately 500 TERAFLOPs
>     Magnums: 2 (>2000 4x IB ports each, expandable to 6,912 ports)
>     Thumpers: 72 (1.728 PB)
>     Metadata storage: STK6450 RAID (9.3 TB)
>     Tape storage: STK SL8500
>     Racks: 82
>     IB NEMs: 328
>     Pegasus blades: 3936
>     Aggregate memory size: 123 TB
>     Number of cores: 62,976
> 
>     Total racks: 94
>     Approx footprint: 2,037 sq ft
>     Approx power: 2.4 MWatts
>     IB cable length: ~14 kilometers
> 
>     Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      >    Some interesting news:
>      >    A huge supercomputing system from SUN called Ranger (SUN
>      > Constellation Series) at TACC Univ. Of Texas has come into
>     production.
>      > It is built out of AMD quad-cores processors with 123TB or RAM, 1.7PB
>      > of disk space with 504 TFlops of peak performance, 4000 compute nodes
>      > and a staggering 62976 CPU cores whew!
>      >
>      > What more, this is a general purpose system, not a special purpose
>      > supercomputer only meant for certain tasks (eg. weather forecasting).
>      > It is probably the World's most powerful general purpose
>     supercomputing
>      > cluster today. Among other things it will be used by NASA to do some
>      > Big Bang simulations!
>      >
>      > Some more details here:
>      > http://blogs.sun.com/HPC/entry/tacc_ranger_in_production
>      >
>     http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/02/05/University/Worlds.Largest.Supercomputer.Opens.For.Access-3187904.shtml
>      > http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-0626/feature/index.jsp
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      > Moinak.
>      >
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