NASA to build 10,000-processor Linux computer (InfoWorld) - Thursday, July 29, 2004 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics Inc.'s (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.
SGI Aims High with NASA Deal (InternetNews.com) - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 SGI's Linux supercomputer powered by Intel chips will lead NASA into the next age of space exploration.
SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster (Slashdot) - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 green pizza writes "NASA has announced plans to cluster twenty 512-processor Silicon Graphics Inc Altix supercomputers connected to a 500-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage SAN. The Altix uses Itanium2 CPUs running Linux atop an Origin 3000-derrived architecture. NASA and SGI scaled Linux to 512 CPUs late last year. There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future. Lots of neat big iron project on the horizon!"