Chrysler buys 108 Linux machines for crash testing...
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 21, 2002 at 2:18:09 PM
Crash testing for cars. The 108 machines are clustered to form a supercomputer. Sounds good to me.
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DaimlerChrysler has been using computers to simulate crashes since the early 1990s, first with single supercomputers, then with clusters of systems running Unix. Now the company is switching to less-expensive systems with Intel processors running Red Hat's version of the Linux operating system, DaimlerChrysler said.
The Chrysler system uses 108 IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6850 workstations, each with two 2.2GHz processors and 1 gigabit-per-second network adapters. The system also uses an IBM TotalStorage FastT500 storage system with 2.6 terabytes of capacity.