[wellylug] Shuttle based supercomputer (& Falcon woes)

[Wood Brent]

For those interested, the info on the Shuttle based supercomputer is at 
http://space-simulator.lanl.gov/

They used the older (but still available) SF51 Shuttle box using a P4 CPU & SiS
chipset. The cluster is supposedly ranked at 85th most powerful supercomputer
in the world.

Interestingly (to me anyway) they used the SiS chipset version instead of the
Intel 845 & Maxtor hard drives.



Those interested in the Falcon SFF can hold off a week or two. It seems that
around 50% have power supply problems in NZ, & there is some deep & meaningful
dialogue ongoing between FIC & the local distributors. The hoped for solution
is to have a heap of replacement power supplies shipped out & swapped in within
a week or so. 

I should still have one for March 10 meeting, I guess I was lucky :-)


Cheers

   Brent 

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