Tuesday, January 7, 2003
SGI is set to announce the launch date for a supercomputer that uses 64 Intel Itanium 2 microprocessors and runs on standard Red Hat Linux software.
SGI will launch the Altix 3000 family of machines in the current quarter designed mainly for scienctists and large corporations that demand a lot of computing power.
So far, the biggest Linux computer is an IBM machine that uses 32 microprocessors; most bigger machines use proprietary versions of Unix.
The company said the Altix family will use as many as 512 Itanium 2 processors later this year and 2,048 processors in 2004.
By: DocMemory
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