We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next year. LNXI is the vendor.
In other words, the idea we had 3 years ago has now hit the big time:
http://www.lnxi.com/cgi-bin/news/newsboy.pl?sa_01=opt_500&sub_cat=051700...
So, we did it! I mean all of us -- the people on this list.
One question I keep getting from the Big Computer Vendors: "how many nodes will this sell this year? How much money?" Well, this year, linuxbios will sell at least 2500 or so dual-P4 nodes, not counting all the other types of nodes currently selling. And, though it is a small number, total linuxbios cluster node sales this year are over $16M, up from $0M last year.
Anyway, thanks to all the great people on this list who have contributed code and ideas over the last 3 years. There are a lot of you, too long to list at this point, but you all know who you are. WE DID IT!
ron
Congratulations to the LinuxBIOS team and to LNXI!
Here's hoping this info will find its way over to my motherboard vendors (Gigabyte for big boxes, and Via for the Eden platform).
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next year. LNXI is the vendor.
In other words, the idea we had 3 years ago has now hit the big time:
http://www.lnxi.com/cgi-bin/news/newsboy.pl?sa_01=opt_500&sub_cat=051700...
So, we did it! I mean all of us -- the people on this list.
One question I keep getting from the Big Computer Vendors: "how many nodes will this sell this year? How much money?" Well, this year, linuxbios will sell at least 2500 or so dual-P4 nodes, not counting all the other types of nodes currently selling. And, though it is a small number, total linuxbios cluster node sales this year are over $16M, up from $0M last year.
Anyway, thanks to all the great people on this list who have contributed code and ideas over the last 3 years. There are a lot of you, too long to list at this point, but you all know who you are. WE DID IT!
ron
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On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 00:47, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next year. LNXI is the vendor.
In other words, the idea we had 3 years ago has now hit the big time:
http://www.lnxi.com/cgi-bin/news/newsboy.pl?sa_01=opt_500&sub_cat=051700...
So, we did it! I mean all of us -- the people on this list.
One question I keep getting from the Big Computer Vendors: "how many nodes will this sell this year? How much money?" Well, this year, linuxbios will sell at least 2500 or so dual-P4 nodes, not counting all the other types of nodes currently selling. And, though it is a small number, total linuxbios cluster node sales this year are over $16M, up from $0M last year.
This reminds me the Internet boom !!! Is stocks of LNXI publicly offered ?? Eric, are you Eric So Rich now ??
Anyway, thanks to all the great people on this list who have contributed code and ideas over the last 3 years. There are a lot of you, too long to list at this point, but you all know who you are. WE DID IT!
It is a good sign for LinuxBIOS form bussiness point of view. The is effective demand (someone want to pay) and effective supply (someone can sell real stuff). I expect there will much more deals on LinuxBIOS in the coming years.
Ollie
ollie lho ollie@sis.com.tw writes:
This reminds me the Internet boom !!! Is stocks of LNXI publicly offered ?? Eric, are you Eric So Rich now ??
No public stocks, yet....
There is something real here, and investors aren't as enthusiastic as they once were. Once bitten twice shy as they say.
Anyway, thanks to all the great people on this list who have contributed code and ideas over the last 3 years. There are a lot of you, too long to list at this point, but you all know who you are. WE DID IT!
It is a good sign for LinuxBIOS form bussiness point of view. The is effective demand (someone want to pay) and effective supply (someone can sell real stuff). I expect there will much more deals on LinuxBIOS in the coming years.
The story Ron doesn't tell is how much testing putting LinuxBIOS on a 1000 node cluster gives you. Whenever I upgrade the bios it runs through a rigorous 1000 boot test, catching all kinds of rare and difficult to reproduce bugs. Whenever we do a full software reinstalled I get a 3000 boot test that only lasts about 10 minutes.
I have been tracking a weird issue all day and so far I have seen about 2850 boots go by, and I am only debugging on a 10th of the entire cluster.
I send Ron a romimage and he reports back that it is stable on his development cluster. And I am screaming about how flaky it is in production. Though happily I have finally had a stable build, as long as people don't run LM_sensors and get the hardware in a confused state.
In my case things would be a lot easier if I wasn't doing the dance of the three hardware bugs. But hey I have to live with the components that are on the motherboard.
Big clusters are fun in other ways. The scale is huge. MCR is recently stable enough that we can start running some big jobs on it. And even with jobs running on only half the cluster we are overloading the air conditioning. I can practically hear the alarms from where I am sitting 30 miles away....
Eric
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next year. LNXI is the vendor.
In other words, the idea we had 3 years ago has now hit the big time:
http://www.lnxi.com/cgi-bin/news/newsboy.pl?sa_01=opt_500&sub_cat=051700...
So, we did it! I mean all of us -- the people on this list.
One question I keep getting from the Big Computer Vendors: "how many nodes will this sell this year? How much money?" Well, this year, linuxbios will sell at least 2500 or so dual-P4 nodes, not counting all the other types of nodes currently selling. And, though it is a small number, total linuxbios cluster node sales this year are over $16M, up from $0M last year.
Congratulations!
I've been interested in Linuxbios from the point of view of installing, and configuring large compute farms. I've been doing this on my own time, with some of my own kit, most recently with Antony in Ireland.
This is exactly what I needed to hear - we can point towards a real, live working cluster using these cutting edge techniques. It really does make a difference betwene saying "Hey - here's a great idea" to saying "Hey - Los Alamos are doing this stuff!"
John Hearns
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