John Gartner and Mi write, at Wired News . . .

“The University of New Mexico and IBM are teaming up to build the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer. Named 'LosLobos', the new supercomputer is scheduled to be fully operational by the summer.”

“LosLobos is a departure from the traditional supercomputer set-up. It's built from 256 IBM Netfinity servers. The Netfinity servers are linked together using special clustering software and high-speed networking hardware, which causes the separate units to act as one computer, delivering a processing speed of 375 gigaflops, or 375 billion operations per second.”

“Although its creators believe LosLobos is the fastest Linux supercomputer, it will only rank 24th on the list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers.”

“Dr. Frank Gilfeather, executive director for the High Performance Computing Education and Research Center at the University of New Mexico, said that LosLobos is part of a 'major supercluster movement' involving many people in the Linux and Open-System communities. He believes superclusters will revolutionize the high-end computing environment.”

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