KLAT2 In The News

The following stories have appeared about our work with KLAT2 (some of the stories discuss our work as an introduction to another system). Where possible, the link provided is to the story archived on the site that published it. Otherwise, a generic link is given. In some cases, we also have provided a link to a locally-cached GIF-image, Postscript, or PDF copy of the article marked with "(cached)."

December 29, 2001: Window Planet
What I Want For Christmas (cached)
December 27, 2001: I Cringely: The Pulpit
What I Want For Christmas: A Supercomputer In Every Garage! (cached PS) (cached PDF)
December 26, 2001: Slashdot
Cringely Wants A Supercomputer in Every Garage (cached 65-page PDF, part 1) (cached 19-page PDF, part 2)
(Yes, this is an anti-causal reference to the above article.)
September 16, 2001: UK Research Challenge Initiative
Governor's Conference on Postsecondary Education Trusteeship (cached)
Spring 2001: CMP134 at Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul
KLAT 2 - Alex Ferreira
May 17, 2001: AMD News Release
AMD Athlon[tm] Processor Gaining Global Recognition as Supercomputing Superstar
May 1, 2001: Enginews
University of Kentucky College of Engineering Awards and Honors (cached PDF)
April 23, 2001: 21st Century Achievement Awards Finalists
Science: University of Kentucky, for KLAT2 Supercomputer
April 20, 2001: UK Engineering News
Dietz Recieves Computerworld Honors Medalion (cached PDF)
April 8-9, 2001: Computerworld Honors Program, 2001 Laureate in Science
KLAT2 Supercomputer
March 14, 2001: Linux Weekly News
AMD, Linux NetworX Deliver Linux Supercluster to Boeing
March 14, 2001: AMD News Release
AMD, Linux NetworX Deliver Linux Supercluster to Boeing
January 23, 2001: Maximum Linux
New Supercomputer Clusters 128 Athlons
January 22, 2001: ZDNet News
AMD chips fuel new supercomputer (cached)
January 22, 2001: CNet News
AMD chips power new supercomputer (cached)
January 22, 2001: Maximum PC Magazine
New Supercomputer Clusters 128 Athlons (cached)
January 22, 2001: The Register
Athlon supercomp gets an airing
January 22, 2001: Yahoo Finance
AMD Athlon Processors Power University of Delaware Supercomputer (cached)
January 22, 2001: Yahoo Daily News
AMD chips fuel new supercomputer (cached)
January 22, 2001: AMD
AMD Athlon Processors Power University of Delaware Supercomputer
January 19, 2001: CMP's TechWeb Technology News
AMD-Based Supercomputer Debuts Next Week (cached)
December 13, 2000: Sm@rt Partner, ZDNet
Strength In Numbers
This article by Bill Nicholls has appeared with dates ranging from December 11, 2000 to December 17, 2000; for example, this ZDNet Reviews article is essentially the same.
December 8, 2000: Ethel the Blog
KLAT2, FNN & SWAR (cached part 1, 2, 3)
December 7, 2000: Linux Weekly News
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer (Ars Technica)
December 6, 2000: Elegant Innovations
Cool Toy
December 6, 2000: RootPrompt.Org
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer
December 4, 2000: Computer User
Ballyhoo for Beowulf (cached)
December 4, 2000: TecChannel.de
AMD-Linux-Supercomputer: 1,86 Dollar pro MFLOP (cached)
December 4, 2000: theGEEK.org
Swift like a prancing bison... KLAT2 SuperComputer-It's in the Genes ;-) (cached)
December 1, 2000: ZDNet LhD Article
Beowulf Clusters: University of Kentucky Wins Two Supercomputing Awards (cached)
December 1, 2000: 2CPU.com
KLAT2 Back in the Spotlight (cached)
November 30, 2000: Linux Weekly News
U. of Kentucky wins two SC2000 awards for Beowulf clusters
November 29, 2000: AMD Zone
University of Kentucky Athlon Supercomputer Awards
November 28, 2000: PC Quest
Supercomputers (cached)
November 27, 2000: Linux PR
University of Kentucky Wins Two Awards with Linux Clusters
November 27, 2000: Linux Today
LinuxPR: University of Kentucky Wins Two Awards with Linux Clusters
November 22, 2000: Beowulf Underground
Kentucky Athlon clusters win awards at SC2000
November 16, 2000: NCSA Access Online
SC2000 Conference Capped One Of Biggest Years Ever With Awards And Recognition
November 15, 2000: IEEE/ACM SC2000 Awards
SC2000 Conference Capped One Of Biggest Years Ever With Awards And Recognition
November 9, 2000: Gordon Bell Awards (at IEEE/ACM SC2000)
Gordon Bell Awards
Our paper, High Cost CFD on a Low Cost Cluster wins honorable mention for KLAT2's price performance.
October 31, 2000: Center for Computational Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
CFD on Low Cost PC Clusters
sometime after October 20, 2000: itech research
AMD Athlon(TM) Processor Powers University of Kentucky Supercomputer (cached)
October 20, 2000: AMD Company Success Stories - University of Kentucky
AMD Athlon Processor Powers University of Kentucky Supercomputer (cached) (cached)
October 13, 2000: TOPCluster
KLAT2 ranks in the ten fastest clusters in the world by peak FLOPS (cached)
October 4, 2000: ALS2000 (USENIX)
KLAT2's Flat Neighborhood Network
September 27, 2000: ECE Seminar (University of Kentucky)
KLAT2's Flat Neighborhood Network
September 21, 2000: AHPCC Workshop 2000
Basics of Network Topologies
September 2000: CS 499 High Performance Computing (at U. of Idaho)
KLAT2
August 28, 2000: List of the world's most powerful computing sites
86) 353.76 - (28-AUG-2000) [UKY] (cached)
July 1, 2000: Code Distortion
GigaFLOPS on the cheap: The KLAT2 Supercomputer (cached)
July 2000: Interactive Essay, IPSJ Magazine, Vol.41 No.7(2000.7)
? KLAT2 ? (cached)
July 2000: SRI Consulting, Business Intelligence Center
Cost-Effective Personal Computer Cluster: KLAT2
June 28, 2000: CNet News
IBM exceeds expectations with supercomputer (cached)
(This article about IBM's ASCI White mentions KLAT2 as evidence of AMD's interest in supercomputing.)
June 27, 2000: ChinaByte
? (cached part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
June 27, 2000: www.myhard.com & www.yesky.com
? ? (cached)
June 27, 2000: Venturing Crew 369's "The Adventure" Newsletter
Clusters - The Flat Neighborhood Network
June 24, 2000: Beowulf Underground
FNN: Flat Neighborhood Networks (cached) (cached)
June 23, 2000: Active Hardware
Inside the KLAT2 Supercomputing Cluster (cached)
June 23, 2000: Firestorm
Take a look inside the KLAT 2 linux cluster supercomputer (cached)
June 23, 2000: NewsPro Archive
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer (cached)
June 23, 2000: Tech Junkie
Athlon Supercomputers (cached)
"date not available": IT Papers
>Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer: The Flat Neighborhood Network & 3DNow! (cached)
June 23, 2000: Silicon Dreams
Ars Technica have posted some information on the KLAT 2... (cached)
June 22, 2000: Overclockers Australia, NewsPro
... ultra-sexy Beowulf cluster ...
June 22, 2000: Maximum PC Magazine
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer (cached)
June 22, 2000: Hardware One
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer
June 22, 2000: Tweakers.net
KLAT2 supercomputer artikel
June 22, 2000: 2CPU
Inside the KLAT2 (cached)
June 22, 2000: Shugashack
The KLAT2 Supercomputer (cached)
June 22, 2000: Chick's Hardware
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer (cached)
June 2000: Knowledge Stor
Kentucky Profs Craft Cheap Linux Supercomputer (cached)
June 22, 2000: The Tech Report
Using 3DNow! for super-cheap supercomputing (cached) (cached)
June 22, 2000: AnandTech
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer: The Flat Neighborhood Network & 3DNow! (cached) (cached)
June 22, 2000: Alereon.org
It's what makes KLAT2 tick (cached)
June 22, 2000: All Games Network
A Look At The KLAT2 (cached)
June 22, 2000: AMDZone.com
Klatonic (cached)
June 22, 2000: Ars Technica
Inside The KLAT2 Supercomputer: The Flat Neighborhood Network & 3DNow!
This article was written by H. Dietz and T. Mattox at the request of Ars Technica and was edited by Ars Technica's Jon Stokes. There also is an introductory news item describing the article under the heading "Building a new breed of Beowulf: KLAT2" (cached).
June 21, 2000: www.maas.co.yu
KLAT2 superkompijuter... (cached)
June 19, 2000: How Stuff Works
Kentucky Professors Develop Inexpensive Supercomputer (cached)
June 18, 2000: WTVQ Television
UK News Report, 12:30PM Eastern time
(WTVQ is the ABC affiliate and Lexington cable channel 10)
June 17, 2000: Hardware Pros
KLAT2 Supercomputer (cached)
June 17, 2000: KET (Kentucky Educational Television)
UK News Report, 12 Noon Eastern time
June 14, 2000: ChipCenter
Use Those PC Throw-Aways
June 12, 2000: Microelectronics Technology Alert
Supercomputing Gets Cheap (cached)
June 5, 2000: LinuxGram at Linux.Com (issue 120)
The Penguin Hatchery: Kentucky Profs Craft Cheap Linux Supercomputer (This story is also posted at Linuxgram, (cached))
June 5, 2000: Industrial Computing Online
Kentucky group offers cheap gigaflops (cached)
June 5, 2000: CLUSTER SYSTEMS and PARALLEL COMPUTING NEWS
Athron ??? (cached)
June 5, 2000: HPCN (High Performance Computing and Networking)
A supercomputer for less than US$ 1.000 per Gflop/s (cached)
June 3, 2000: WN.RU (Russian)
Technology of games will be used in a new supercomputer
June 1, 2000: Game Monkeys Magazine
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier
June 1, 2000: Hardware One
Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2
June 1, 2000: Hitechbits.com
Cluster project brings cost per Gflop to new low. (cached)
June 1, 2000: Linux Weekly News
News.com looks at the new budget Beowulf cluster in Kentucky (cached)
June 1, 2000: Ars Technica
GFLOPs @ $650 a pop (cached)
June, 2000: ComputorEdge
KLAT2 (Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2): More Gigaflops Than Joe Eszterhas
May 2000: massiveparallel.com
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier (cached)
May 31, 2000: CCIDNET.COM
? AMD Athlon ? (cached)
May 31, 2000: No Spoon
Nec annonce le supercomputer le plus puissant du monde (cached)
May 30, 2000: Svet Hardware
Chcete se s vykonem sveho poeitaee vtlaeit mezi 200 nejvykonnijich stroju svita?
May 30, 2000: ITWare
??? AMD ???
May 30, 2000: EE Times
Cluster project brings cost per Gflop to new low (cached)
May 29, 2000:
AMD Athlon alapu szuperszamitogep (cached)
May 27, 2000: Linux Only .CX
27.5.2000 Linux supertietokone (cached)
May 27, 2000: PC Online China
AMD 3DNow ??? (cached)
May 27, 2000: Medusa.Interpia98.Net
64 ? AMD Athlon ? (cached)
May 27, 2000: Ground Zero - the NEWS
AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer (cached)
May 27, 2000: IT.SOHU.com
AMD ? (cached)
May 27, 2000: Tom's Hardware Guide
AMD 3D gamer chips key to new supercomputer (cached)
(This story appears to have been semi-mechanically translated into many languages for Tom's Hardware sites in Germany (cached) (cached), Japan (cached), Korea (cached), etc.)
May 26, 2000: Signal Ground
Athlon's 3DNow Powers Linux Supercomputer (cached)
May 26, 2000: China Computerworld
AMD ???
May 26, 2000: Computer Times - Computer Edition of Azerbaijan
Kentucky forms a supercomputer on the basis of processors AMD
May 26, 2000: INFOART.RU (Russian)
Kentucky forms a supercomputer on the basis of processors AMD
May 26, 2000: Gamecenter.com
Game Technology Useful for Supercomputers (cached)
May 26, 2000: www.3dnews.ru
3DNow! ?
May 26, 2000: www.mikroHABER.com
Sper bilgisayarda AMD ilemcileri (cached)
May 26, 2000: PARALLEL RU (Russian)
English scientists create super-computer KLAT2 by record ratio
(Apparently, our Russian friends think "UK" means that the University of Kentucky is in England rather than the USA.... ;-)
May 26, 2000: WKYT Television
Campus Connection, approximately 6:45AM Eastern time
(WKYT is the CBS affiliate and Lexington channel 27, cable channel 2)
May 26, 2000: Linux Today
CNET News.com: AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer (cached) (cached) (cached) (cached)
May 26, 2000: www.GOL.it
Il segreto del supercomputer "KLAT2" nei chip di AMD (cached)
May 26, 2000: TechJockey.net
KLAT2 == Fast Linux Supercomputer (cached) (cached)
May 26, 2000:
Altre info su KLAT2 (cached)
May 26, 2000: The Tech Report
Supercomputing on the cheap (cached)
May 26, 2000: www.phpschool.com
Linux PC Cluster (cached)
May 26, 2000: Dr. Dobb's Microprocessor Headline News
AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer (cached)
May 26, 2000: HPC Wire
Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier (cached)
May 26, 2000: linux.hu
AMD Athlon alapz szuperszammtsgip (cached)
May 26, 2000: Overclocker
3DNow! ?
May 26, 2000: vnunet.com
University clusters Athlons into supercomputer (cached)
May 26, 2000: Non-US CNet News
Translations and/or reposts of Shankland's article: Taiwan, Singapore (cached), Hong Kong, Malaysia
May 25, 2000: Top500
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier (cached)
May 25, 2000: CPU Scorecard
Kentucky Beowulf has Athlon inside (cached)
May 25, 2000: The X Generation Network
Linux feels the power of 3DNow in Mass? (cached)
May 25, 2000: AnandTech
AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer (cached) (cached)
May 25, 2000: Atommart
Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2 (KLAT2) (cached)
May 25, 2000: Tweakers.net
University of Kentucky bouwt 64-node Athlon cluster
May 25, 2000: 3DNow.net
KLAT2 Makes Headlines (cached)
May 25, 2000: geeknews.com
Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2
May 25, 2000: DiBro Computers
Athlon Supercomputer (cached)
May 25, 2000: Overclockin
But is it overclocked??? (cached)
May 25, 2000: Netscape Technews
AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer (A reprint of the CNet News article.)
May 25, 2000: CNet News
AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer (cached) (cached)
May 24, 2000: AMD
University of Kentucky Break GFLOPS Barrier with AMD Athlon Processors (cached)
May 24, 2000: Compu-Mania
KLAT2
May 24, 2000: Linux Power
64 Gigaflops for a Mere $41000
May 24, 2000: Chick's Hardware
KLAT2 Athlon\Linux System (cached)
May 24, 2000: Brain Damage
That is one motha of a... (cached)
May 24, 2000: Linux Today
LinuxMall.com: Linux Goes Greased Lightning (cached)
May 24, 2000: SHORTECH e news
Linux Issues...
May 24, 2000: LinuxMall.com
Linux Goes Greased Lightning (cached) (cached) (cached)
May 23-24, 2000: Internet Business Network
Linux PC cluster - KLAT2 (cached) (cached)
May 23, 2000: Pro-Linux
Linux-Supercomputer durchbricht Preisbarriere (cached) (cached)
May 23, 2000: 3DNow.net
KLAT2 (cached)
May 23, 2000: Alereon.org
Ooh yeah, Athlon Linux cluster (cached)
May 23, 2000: Silicon Dreams
AMD Super Computer! (cached)
May 23, 2000: Tripod HPC news
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier
May 23, 2000: All Games Network
KLAT2 Athlon\Linux System (cached)
May 23, 2000: Linux Today
The Aggregate: University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The \$1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier (cached) (cached)
May 22, 2000: Beowulf Underground
Kentucky Linux Athlon Cluster Under $1K/GFLOPS (cached) (cached)
May 22, 2000: buku.virtualave.net
Athlon Powered Super Computer (cached)
May 22, 2000: JC-News.Com
gotta love that KLAT2 (cached)
May 22, 2000: NewsPro Archive
66 Machine - 700MHz Athlon cluster (cached)
May 22, 2000: MacSurfer's Headline News
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier (cached)
May 22, 2000: TechNN.com
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $1,000 Per GFLOPS Barrier (cached)
May 22, 2000: Boomgames.com
KLAT2???? (cached)
May 22, 2000: AMDZone.com
Athlon Powered Super Computer (cached)

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