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AMD Announces Five More
Linux-Based Supercomputer Installations
May 18, 2001, 18 :35 UTC
AMD has announced that five more academic
institutions have installed new Beowulf-based supercomputers using
Athlons and Linux. The schools include Hong Kong University of Science
& Technology, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) funded program at the University of
California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), as well as National Science Foundation
(NSF) funded programs at Western Michigan University and Calvin College.
According to the company, The Hong
Kong University of Science & Technology,has developed a supercomputer
featuring 80 of the processors, which a professor at the university
said will be used for design of advanced composite materials and material
physics calculations.
The Tokyo Institute of Technology
has built the PRESTO III, a 78 Athlon processor-based cluster that
will be employed at the Matsuoka Laboratory of the Global Scientific
Information and Computing Center & Department of Mathematical
and Computing Sciences.
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) has helped fund a 32 Athlon processor-based
cluster node supercomputer located at UCSC. The UCSC supercomputer,
developed and built by Racksaver, Inc. through the assistance of Dolphin
Interconnect, will be used to study collisional processes in the solar
system, and run simulations of planetary dynamos, such as the one
responsible for Earth's magnetic field.
Another 32-node supercomputer has
been installed at the ParInt Research Group at Western Michigan University
under an NSF-funded grant. "Very early on in our purchasing decision
process we decided to go with AMD Athlon processors, for their performance
and pricing, and we have not been disappointed," said Elise de
Doncker, Professor in the Computer Science department at Western Michigan
University. "The cluster has been very reliable and invaluable
to our research efforts in parallel numerical integration, and for
class projects in various advanced computer science courses."
Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
is the location of an 18 AMD Athlon processor-based cluster.
Previously reported AMD Athlon processor-based
supercomputers are located at the University of Delaware, the University
of Kentucky, and the University of Utah. Each of these systems employ
the Beowulf Cluster design architecture, which involves connecting
each processor in parallel to maximize speed and processing power
while providing inter-communications between the processors and compute
nodes, and use a Linux-based operating system.
