Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Nov 2006 17:13 UTC, submitted by Uzak Ajays
The University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell to unveil one of the world's fastest supercomputers. The machine, called Darwin, consists of 2340 computers arranged in a cluster. It has been ranked as Europe's seventh fastest supercomputer, and the 20th fastest in the world, according to the top 500 list.
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Correction, Tsubame is #9 on the top500. And if you're going to call a 2 million pound 2340 processor cluster 'sad' compared to a 11088 processor cluster, then your 'faster' Sun is pretty sad compared to #6 which is a 9024 processor Dell cluster at NNSA. Sun used 4U 8-way boxes. How many of those can you put in a 42U rack? 60 2-way poweredge 1955 blades fit into the same space. Seems like Dell can scale out and perform a lot better at much lower cost than Sun, which makes is very attractive for HPC scenarios.