[Am-info] IT Advances Research On Climate.....Linux

[Sujal Shah]

See, I knew there was a reason I went to school there.

Sujal (who got his first exposure to Linux from his sophomore year
roomate at JHU).


On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:49, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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> IT Advances Research On Climate
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> Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are breaking 
> new ground with their study of the Atlantic Ocean's effect on the 
> climate. The project got a boost 18 months ago when the 
> university chose to run its data collection and analysis on a 
> cluster of Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux 6.2. 
> 
> This research couldn't be done without the right IT platform, 
> says Thomas Haine, assistant professor in the department of earth 
> and planetary sciences. Haine's Dell cluster consists of eight 
> Dell 2450 PowerEdge servers with two P3 CPUs, 18 Gbytes of hard 
> drive, and 1 Gbyte of memory each. Data is stored on each server 
> within the cluster, and the cluster is interconnected via two 
> networks. The Dell servers have a Fast Ethernet connection that 
> handles the copying of files and other general 
> system-administration jobs. The cluster also has a faster Myrinet 
> connection from Myricom Inc. that's used for high-speed 
> computations.
> 
> Johns Hopkins considered systems from SGI Inc. and Sun 
> Microsystems but ultimately chose Dell because of pricing. "The 
> cluster was about $50,000, but we were never really presented 
> with a like-for-like comparison" with Sun or SGI, Haine says. "We 
> could have done this with Unix but wouldn't have gotten as much 
> for our money. I suspect we would have been looking at twice that 
> from Sun and SGI." - Larry Greenemeier
> 
> For the full story, go to:
> http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHpj0Bce7K0V20BeoR0A8
> 
> And for more, read:
> Choosing Linux Over Older Systems
> http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHpj0Bce7K0V20BemS0A7
> 
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> Fred A. Miller
> Systems Administrator
> Cornell Univ. Press Services
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