Clusters - High-performance Computing Discovering the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers 304 systems are now labeled as clusters, making this the most common architecture in the TOP500. The leading IBM Blue Gene/L installation has a total of 65,536 compute nodes and an additional 1024 I/O nodes and reached a new record Linpack benchmark performance of 136.8 TFlop/s.

Today's data-intensive applications like content distribution, webserving, data mining or business intelligence require massive computing power and Linux has become a key operating system, it can be extended to run a computer the size of Blue Gene. But clusters and Linux can also be used for load balancing and high-availability systems.  ¶ 'Clusters - High-performance Computing' posted by eA : 12:58 AM