Linux Networx is launching a Linux supercomputer
platform for the enterprise market.
It hopes to use open source technology to take the supercomputer
outside its traditional sphere of intensive number crunching for
pharmaceutical companies, oil exploration organisations and science
labs.
Linux Networx makes supercomputers made from clusters of Linux
machines, and plans to unveil its new the LS-1 platform at the SC05
supercomputing show in Seattle, Washington, this week.
The company is aiming the LS-1 at potential customers who have
never owned a clustered solution before, and have been put off by
the belief that such a platform is too complicated to manage.
The LS-1 will initially be offered with AMD’s Opteron
processors, but in the first quarter of 2006 users will also be
able to specify a machine with Intel Xeon chips.
The LS-1 has a starting price of around £24,000 for a
16-processor machine. A 64-processor platform costs from about
£77,000.
