Re: Dell stops offering Red Hat on desktops

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Sean /The RIMBoy/ said:
> Actually, the largest known Linux cluster is NCSA's Platinum, checking in
> at 512 nodes (1024 procs).  That said, 1024 is the next mark to break, and
> several places, including NCSA are working to break that mark.

Last I heard, Google was running something like 10k Linux boxes.
Granted, not in a traditional compute cluster...

The only mention I can find quickly of numbers on Google's cluster is
here:

    http://www.google.com/press/highlights.html

Apparently they "conduct more than 100 million searches per day by
building the web's largest index of web pages (over 1.3 billion),
powered by the world's largest commercial Linux cluster (more than
8,000 servers)."

Steve
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