ray wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Cray Lands $200 Million Linux-Opteron Super Deal with DOE
>>
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>> | Yesterday, the company announced that it had landed a
>> | whopping $200 million deal to build an Opteron-based
>> | parallel supercomputer that runs a hyped-up version of
>> | Linux for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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>> http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn061606-story02.html
>
> I wonder why they'd need a "hyped-up version of Linux" and
> what that means anyway.
Term is media industry speak. Article clarifies later as
"tweaked":
/quote/
The "Red Storm" supercomputer that Cray created for Sandia out
of Opteron processors and a tweaked Linux operating system had
a $90 million price tag and delivers about 43.5 teraflops of
peak performance.
/-quote/
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