@Morten
The CX1 is a box of INtel MBs with standard IB connectivity. It will run Win HPC as well as Linux.
106 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Feb 2009
Of course they are hedging their bets. They can't afford to develop a new Altix x700 architecture for Tuckwilla, although Ultrviolet was purported to be a design for either Xeon or Itanium.
Don't you just love Barranchea's biz-speak: "interesting and compleeling" sheesh.
The reason the LHC was "switched" on last year, was because the consortia's politicians said it had to be. Being switched on and being switched on at full power are (forgive the pun), light years apart. Another interseting fact is that, (due to time constraints to hit the autumn switch-on), CERN only tested 1/10 of the magnets, which are needed to keep the beam away from the pipelines wall. That's professional isn't it?
My guess therefore is by October 2009, + 6 months they might have ignition at full power and be able to do some useful stuff.
Why tell the truth in the first place.