Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) selected Linux NetworX to design, integrate and deliver what will be the largest and most powerful Linux supercomputer by Fall 2002. Multiple programs at LLNL will use the Linux NetworX Evolocity clustered supercomputer to support the Laboratory's national security mission. When delivered, the Intel-based cluster is expected to be one of the five fastest supercomputers in the world.

The Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster will be the fastest Intel-based or Linux cluster machine ever built, as it will harness 1,920 Intel Xeon processors at 2.4 GHz with a theoretical peak of 9.2 teraFLOPS, or 9.2 trillion calculations per second upon delivery.

“This Intel-based Linux NetworX system is historic in that it represents a viable method of using standards-based technologies to create some of the fastest supercomputers in the world,” said Lisa Hambrick, director of enterprise processor marketing for Intel.

For a diagram of the system and more specific detail on the supercomputer Linux NetworX is building for LLNL, visit here.

Interesting Statistics:

• The Linux NetworX system will be seven times more powerful than Deep Blue, the IBM computer that beat world chess champion Garry Kasperov in 1997.
• Compared to the average home PC, the Linux NetworX system will have the same amount of processing power as 9200 PCs and can do in 1 day what would take an average PC 25 years.
• The Linux NetworX system could assemble the human genome in 21 days, compared to the 150 days it took the Compaq Alpha Cluster that Celera used.
• The Linux NetworX system will be able to hold the entire Library of Congress in memory four times.
• The Linux NetworX system will be 4.6 times more powerful than the Sun Enterprise render farm used by Pixar to create the movie Monsters Inc.

 
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