Linux NetworX supercomputer ranked as fifth fastest in the WorldSalt Lake City 18 November 2002 MCR, the cluster supercomputer Linux NetworX built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been ranked as the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world on the TOP500 supercomputing list. The 2304-processor cluster can process 5.7 Tflop/s running the Linpak benchmark, and is the only Linux-based supercomputer to be ranked within the top five. A 361-node cluster Linux NetworX built for Argonne National Laboratory also broke the Tflop/s barrier, capable of 1.6 Tflop/s and is ranked 46th on the TOP500 supercomputing list. The TOP500 lists the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world based on Linpak benchmark results.
"For the first time ever, clusters were able to gain a top ten spot in the TOP500 list of supercomputers. At position five, this is the largest Linux cluster ever recorded with a very impressive Linpack performance of 5.7 teraFLOPS", stated Erich Strohmaier, computer scientist at NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and co-founder of the TOP500 list. "The system installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and built by Linux NetworX and Quadrics, is an important step in supercomputing history as it demonstrates the potentially large impact Linux clusters will have in the high performance computing community."
The emergence of Linux clusters in the supercomputing industry is highlighted in Supercomputing's Epic Journey, an illustrated timeline and article researched and written by International Data Corporation (IDC) and an independent research group. The foldout timeline and article was distributed at the SC2002 conference and trade show in Baltimore. Supercomputing's Epic Journey explores the history of supercomputing from some of the first vacuum tube computers in the 1940s and traces landmark systems and events that are leading to the most recent developments in the TeraFLOPs era and cluster computing.
"IDC has done a number of market studies of cluster computing and we see a large number of high performance technical users moving to clustered solutions", stated Earl Joseph, research director at IDC. "We see Linux NetworX well positioned to take advantage of that market trend."
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