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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (122341)	5/4/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 176387

Another 32-node Linux cluster (Beowulf supercomputer) runs on DELL ... computerworld.com Linux gushes savings for oil giant Switch from IBM saves Hess nearly $2M Saddled with low oil prices and a need to cut costs, global oil giant Amerada Hess Corp. is saving millions of dollars by replacing a costly IBM supercomputer with high-end parallel clusters running Linux, the free Unix variant that some CIOs still regard as a wild card. A 32-node Linux cluster, called a Beowulf supercomputer, lets the company render detailed 3-D images of the seafloor from terabytes of data. The $130,000 Beowulf system performs the task in about the same time — two weeks — as the 32-node IBM SP2 system running AIX that the company paid $2 million to lease for three years, said Vic Forsyth, Amerada Hess' Houston-based manager of geophysical systems. ... Amerada Hess implemented one Linux system from Bethlehem, Pa.-based Paralogic Inc. last fall, bought another from Dell Computer Corp. at the beginning of the year and ordered a third from Dell last week. The latest one will cluster 32 500-MHz Pentium III processors and sport 1G byte of RAM on each processor's system board. ... Linux-based Beowulf clusters have become popular supercomputers at several national laboratories, government agencies and universities. But they have been rare in the private sector because CIOs have only begun to consider Linux a reliable, supportable operating system. Translation: Because CIO's are boneheaded, brown nosing, @ss kissing, "yes" men in leisure suits and white ties. In one project at the University of Texas at Austin, researchers in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering have found that a Beowulf cluster with 16 400-MHz Pentium II processors could perform oil-reservoir simulation calculations about as quickly as a comparable SP2. DELL ... the supercomputer superstore. all rights reserved Thanks to slashdot.org

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (122341)	5/4/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

FAST, DELL Team to Build World's Biggest Search Engine Service Super-fast, Low-cost System Designed to Scale with Explosive Web Growth; Offers 80 Million Searchable Documents Today; 200 Million Targeted for Summer 1999, Quest for Entire Web Boston, Mass. and Round Rock, Texas, May 4, 1999 – Fast Search & TransferTM(FASTTM), owner of highly advanced search engine technology, today announced that it has teamed with Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), the world's leading direct computer systems company, to build a next-generation search engine service powered by Dell systems. web.fast.no