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____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 14 December 2007 00:42 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World
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>> | The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048
>> | processor cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux --
>> | creating the largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world.
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> http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM07923072007-1.htm
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> Every time I read about this I get goose-bumps. I would love to spend some
> time with this. Again... something you could never, ever do with windows.
Earlier today I read a second article about UNIX being replaced by Linux in the
New York Stock Exchange. Windows was not even mentioned. Mind you, the London
Stock Exchange crashed about a month ago. It appears to be one of the only
ones that run Microsoft technologies and Microsoft puts a /HUGE/ amount of
resources to make it seem like a model deployment (they use it as a reference
in their anti-Linux propaganda, aka "Get the Facts").
Linux just works. Windows is dysfunctional, but it has a PR/spin department
that just works.
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~~ Best of wishes
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