Alienware Builds Opteron Cluster For Florida International University

Alienware announced that Florida International University has chosen Alienware to deploy a powerful distributed-memory parallel computer to be utilized by the College of Engineering for advanced scientific research in its new Computational Science and Engineering initiative. The parallel computer will be located in the Multi-disciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design, Robust Optimization and Control (MAIDROC) Laboratory at FIU. The server cluster, using Seagate hard drives and 98 AMD Opteron CPUs (with 1Gb RAM on each processor), will operate as a powerful research tool used in the study of hurricane simulation and tracking, protein folding, advanced materials research, biomedical research, and many other sciences. The parallel machine uses a variant of MPI and Linux operating system... Although I can't find which distro they're using.

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