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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:37:08 -0700
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The next time one of your users complains about the speed of their server ...

U.S. DOE buys fastest Linux system
Gillian Law

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 
(PNNL) has ordered a .5 million supercomputer running the Linux operating 
system for its facility in Richland, Wash., it announced Tuesday.


Scientists will use the computer to study chemical problems in life 
sciences, material design, atmospheric chemistry and combustion, PNNL said 
in a joint statement with supplier Hewlett-Packard (HP) of Palo Alto, 
Calif. The computer will also be used to study areas including geochemistry 
and biochemistry, radioactive and chemical waste detection, storage and 
management, systems biology, genomics and proteomics.

Demand for access to the system is likely to be high, and scientists will 
be granted access based on a competitive proposal process, the statement said.

HP will supply the supercomputer, consisting of 1,400 of Intel's 
next-generation Itanium processors, code named McKinley and Madison. The 
computer will have 1.8TB of memory and 170TB of disk space, the statement 
said. One terabyte is one million megabytes.

The computer should reach processing speeds of 8.3T flops (8.3 trillion 
floating point operations per second) at peak performance, making it the 
most powerful Linux computer in the world, HP said. It will also be among 
the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

The computer will be installed at the Molecular Sciences Computing Facility 
within the William R Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a 
DOE facility at PNNL.

It is expected to be operational in early 2003, the statement said.

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