From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id VAA64503 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:40:30 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id VAA30347 for linux-list; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:38:48 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id VAA09938; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:38:16 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) Received: from mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.64.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id VAA02111; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:38:10 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Received: from eddie (ralf@eddie.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.17]) by mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA03419; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 06:36:41 +0100 (MET) Received: by eddie (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id GAA08942; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 06:36:38 +0100 Message-ID: <19981206063636.57972@uni-koblenz.de> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 06:36:36 +0100 To: "William J. Earl" Cc: "Eric L. Anderson" , Alex deVries , SGI/Linux mailing list Subject: Re: SGI joins linux international References: <199812041904.LAA63896@oz.engr.sgi.com> <199812042159.NAA19623@fir.engr.sgi.com> <36686269.A6F2AC61@more.net> <199812042233.OAA19757@fir.engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199812042233.OAA19757@fir.engr.sgi.com>; from William J. Earl on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 02:33:03PM -0800 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 02:33:03PM -0800, William J. Earl wrote: > > Does the "list of items" include the VPC video hardware? It would be > > great to see SGI support Linux as an alternative OS for the VPC. > > I don't think I can comment on the VPC right now. Too bad, we might have used a ton of them running Linux for the Clown project, see www.ccnacht.de and slashdot.org. Friends of Realvideo and raytraced anymations will get on their cost :-) For those who still don't know, this night Linux made more Linux history. We've assembled a cluster of 530 Linux nodes in less than 24h plus additional administration and server machines. A large fraction of the machines was loaned by volunteers. Problems solved by the cluster include computing animations, scientific and mathematical problems that were taking advantage of the large available memory space, computational power and fail safe features - we're continuing to compute while we're already disassembling parts of the cluster. The most important benchmark ran was Linpack which was only run on the 50 666MHz 21164 Alphas which at this time is still running since the rest of the cluster was busy with other jobs. Results will be filed for an entry in the top 500 list. The price for the sickest idea to use the cluster goes to the cluster version of a MIDI player using the PCspeaker which right now is playing random sounds on all Intel machines ... Ralf