Re: [MLUG] Linux *really* hits the big-time

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jon--

Thanks for sending that announcement.  It's very impressive.  I'm going to
make sure our supercomputing people know about it.  Those new 1.3 GHz
Power4s sound great (we're using 375 MHz Power3s).

I knew Linux was really going places when IBM decided to adopt it a few
years ago.  Another reason to expect to see it really take off is that
people like the people on this list -- mostly young students -- are
becoming real Linux experts.  Those young guys (nearly all guys, in fact,
my apologies to the women on the list) will want to use what they know --
Linux.  Over the years, Linux will take over as the old people die off and
the young people come to power.

Despite all that, I think we'd run AIX on a p690, if we get one, because
we're running AIX on the SP: http://www.msi.umn.edu/sp/ I think all of our
supercomputers are leased, so they can be upgraded often.  This new IBM
p690 sounds excellent, so we'll probably end up getting one (or more)
here, but I don't know when that will happen.

Mike


On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jonathan King wrote:

>
> So IBM released their p690 server today based on their Power4 chip. You
> can run AIX or Linux on the thing, and it looks like a complete *beast* at
> a price that's half of comparable Sun hardware.  The Power4 itself is
> faster than anything out there (Intel, Alpha, SPARC, you name it), and the
> configurations available are, shall we say, pretty heavy duty.
>
> Top of the line would be:
>
> 32-way SMP with 1.3GHz Power4 processors,
> 256 GB RAM
> 96 internal drive bays
> up to 160 PCI adapters
> 4.6 TB of disk (using currently available drives, I believe).
>
> Note that the memory is in gigs and the disk storage is in terabytes.
> For more info, see:
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/datactr/p690_specs.html
>
> But the thing that is most interesting is that you can get Linux to run on
> it, which means that an OS started by a Finnish tinkerer working on a 386
> now runs on essentially the most serious computers in the world that fit
> in one cabinet.
>
> Of course, the real question is whether or not this would have won the
> darts contest. :-)
>
> jking
>
>
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