SGI corrects Bull claims for Cardiff supercomputer
Silicon Graphics (SGI) is disputing claims made by Bull Information Systems and Cardiff University for the new supercomputer at its Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) facility.
SGI says the first major system in a UK university to use Intel Xeon Quad-core processors was in fact its installation at the University of Exeter, announced last September.
It’s certainly true that astrophysicists at Exeter took delivery of an SGI Altix ICE high-performance computing blade system, comprising a 128-core, 16TB Altix ICE 8200.
The university's system runs Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, the most scalable implementation of Linux available at the time.