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| | California Digital Corporation - Thunder |
 | | Thunder uses 1,024 California Digital 6440 servers, each with four Intel Itanium2 1.4GHz processors with 4MB of cache, 8GB of RAM, and 73GB of local storage. |
 | | Despite the technical sophistication of Thunder and the incorporation of new technologies, California Digital deployed Thunder in five months, speeding delivery of computing solutions to support Lawrence Livermore's national security and science programs in fields such as materials science, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, atmospheric science, seismology, biology, and inertial confinement fusion. |
 | | Thunder uses a number of innovative open-source software tools developed by California Digital and Lawrence Livermore to manage the cluster effectively, leveraging the industry-leading remote management capability of Intel's Itanium2 system family. |
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