4,000 Systems
December 14th, 2002 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison | 1 viewsHere’s an intesting use of Linux clustering. Saudi Aramco is building a 4,000 unit Linux cluster to look for oil. According to the article on Vnunet:
The company is using 900 rack-mounted dual Intel Pentium III 1.4GHz processors, each with 2GB of memory, running Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Intel Solution Services helped to optimise the PSTM code, which was written in the Fortran mathematical programming language and uses the Intel Fortran for Linux 6.0 compiler and Intel VTune performance analyser to identify code improvement areas.
This just really adds to the diversity of current Linux use. You can find in nearly anywhere from PDAs to looking for oil.
One Response to “4,000 Systems”
By Neil T. on Dec 15, 2002 | Reply
Don’t tell that to George W. Bush…