Linux Cluster supercomputer at NOAA unveiled

Boulder 27 Apr 00 The $17 million Linux cluster called JET at NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been unveiled this week. Cluster top speed is 5 Tflop/s. JET was developed by High Performance Technologies Inc.

With the new high-speed computing ability, data can be collected as close as every mile and still processed fast enough to make a forecast.

For the FSL HPCS solution HPTi has four teammates - Compaq, University of Virginia (UVa), Myricom, andPatuxent Technology Partners (PTP). Compaq provides the core computational system -the Alpha, extensiveexperience with installed large clusters, and the commitment to a clustered approach for their next-generationsystems. Myricom is the provider of the high performance processor interconnect that enables the system toscale thousands of processors. PTP is providing an integrated storage solution from their experience as pioneersin Storage Area Networks. UVa was the site of HPTi's benchmarking activities and hosted the live testdemonstration to NOAA and FSL representatives. Our direct and client related relationships with UVa havefocused on the application of advanced cluster technologies in HPC.

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