[GUFSC] Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer

[Altamir Dias]

Debian powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer

The Observational Relativity and Cosmology Research Group at the Max 
Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics has created Germany's 4th 
largest supercomputer using Debian GNU/Linux. By using Debian GNU / 
Linux on its clusters, the Observational Relativity and Cosmology 
Research Group reduced the amount of work needed on the hardware and 
software infrastructure, compared to other scientific clusters running 
on other distributions, allowing them to focus on their objective of 
detecting gravitational waves. Dr. Aulbert, one of the cluster designers 
said: Thomas Lange's FAI package is extremely useful for automatic 
deployment of Debian. For example, without much tweaking and using only 
two hosts, we were able to reinstall the cluster in about 2.5 hours and 
were only limited by those two servers' network connection.


Fonte:http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/05/
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