Common computers gain superpowers through student network
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| BOINC is an open-source computer program created at the University of
| California, Berkeley, to create the world’s fastest supercomputer with the
| unused processing power of personal computers.
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http://www.newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/3298/content.htm
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MIT students power supercomputer with bicycles
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| They powered a SiCortex SC648 supercomputer with a Linux cluster of 648 CPUs
| and almost 1TB of main memory in a single cabinet. The system is low-powered
| and draws 1,200 watts without needing special power supplies or cooling.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/121907-mit-students-power-supercomputer-with.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2we49g
Linux Super Computer - Powered By Bicycles
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| SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux cluster from the silicon up,
| showed of the energy efficiency that can be achieved in high performance
| computing.
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http://www.gadgettastic.com/2007/09/15/linux-super-computer-powered-by-bicycles/
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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| There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
| of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
| always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
| fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
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