Thunderbird Linux Cluster at Sandia National Labs

Some news bites about Thundebird

• Interesting article here from Linux Magazine that talks about Thunderbird's performance improvements
• Thunderbird increases it's Linpack performance to 53.00 TeraFlops (a 38.5% overall gain) from the November 2005 to the November 2006 Top500 List!
  • Tbird clocked in at 84.66% efficiency on 4347 nodes (8694 processors)
  • 18.5% performance improvement per node
  • fueled by a software stack switch to OpenMPI and OpenFabrics (aka OFED)
  • http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2006/thunderbird.html
• http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2006/dell-visit.html
• http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/060804.html
• http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2006/dell-visit.html
• http://www.force10networks.com/news/pressreleases/2006/pr-2006-02-21.asp
• http://www.cs.sandia.gov/platforms/Thunderbird.html

Some pictures of Thunderbird

• /common/TbirdPics/Core1-small.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-CoreCold2.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-raa5239423.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-raa5239424.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-raa5239426.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-raa5239427.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-raa5239428.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-raa5239429.jpg
• /common/TbirdPics/small-RackRear4.jpg