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TACC Ranger on #4 of Top 500 list

Wednesday, June 18. 2008

The TACC Ranger Supercomputer based on Sun´s Constellation system made a fourth rank on the top 500 supercomputers list. Additionally it´s the most powerful system in the list purely based on standard technology (no special CPUs/FPGAS or special interconnects).

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 21:57 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)
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and we all know it runs linux because sun still doesn't have Solaris-drivers for their Mellanox Connect-X cards (aka X4217A-Z)

#1 molli123 (Homepage) on 2008-06-18 22:43 (Reply)

Sorry, but this comment is a little bit underinformed. The system uses the X5196A. And the Solaris driver will be available really soon now (when it´s not available right now ... i have to look it up tomorrow morning)

#1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2008-06-18 23:09 (Reply)

they use the same driver since they are both Mellanox PCI-E Connect-X HCAs.

Look for optioncards for X4150 on Suns website. "Driver for Solaris10: included in OS" - this is not true. But I also heard that the hermon-driver should arrive this year...

#1.1.1 molli123 (Homepage) on 2008-06-19 18:04 (Reply)

Fiscal year ...

#1.1.1.1 joerg M. (Homepage) on 2008-06-19 18:49 (Reply)

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