Salt Lake City, Utah-based Linux Networx will supply a 2,132 processor-based Evolocity II cluster to the Army Research Laboratory’s Major Shared Resource Center, although plans for five further HPCMP cluster systems are in the works.
The Army Research Laboratory cluster will be fully deployed in mid-2004 and will be the HPCMP’s largest Intel Corp processor-based Linux cluster. The cluster will include 1,066 nodes with dual Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz processors and Intel 64-bit extension technologies, as well as Linux Networx’s Clusterworx 3.0 and ICE Box management tools.
The cluster will also use Myricom Inc’s Myrinet high-speed interconnect technology and Gigabit Ethernet from Foundry Networks Inc, and has been purchased through the DoD’s Technology Insertion 2004 program to modernize high-performance computing capabilities.
The latest Linux Networx contract follows the deployment of a 256-processor cluster at the ARL in 2003. Linux Networx and Intel are now working together with the ARL to port its application code to the new cluster.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
