The cluster, dubbed Roadrunner , is the latest addition to the National Technology Grid, the Alliance's collection of powerful computational resources. Roadrunner is a 64-node AltaCluster by Alta Technology Corporation containing 128 Intel 450 MHz Pentium II processors. The supercluster runs the Linux operating system, and the processors are interconnected via a Myrinet network for high-speed communications. Plans are to grow the Roadrunner Supercluster to 512 processors over the next 12 months, subject to the availability of necessary resources. A brief photo gallery of the opening and other events held during the week are available online.
Access also has photos of the event .
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