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US Orders Massive Supercomputer to Manage Nuclear Stockpile
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| Sequoia will occupy 96 server racks over an area a bit larger than a tennis
| court. IBM won't discuss the machine in detail because it is still being
| developed, but Dave Turek, vice president of IBM's Deep Computing initiative,
| said it will be similar in design to its predecessor, Blue Gene/P, but on a
| much larger scale. The system will run a version of the Linux OS, use IBM's
| embedded Power processors and have 1.6 petabytes of main memory.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/158790/us_orders_massive_supercomputer_to_manage_nuclear_stockpile.html?tk=rss_news
IBM's 20 petaflops supercomputer to keep tabs on US nukes
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| IBM HAS TEAMED up with the US government to try and build the most powerful,
| most super supercomputer ever.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/772/1050772/ibm-petaflops-supercomputer-tabs-us-nukes
Need a supercomputer? This guy builds them himself
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| For instance, his first supercomputer was built from a Linux cluster of
| bargain 48 DEC Alpha Servers that had been discontinued, each with a single
| 300-MHz, 64-bit AXP processor. "So I got a very good deal on them. I think
| the list price was $6,000, and I bought them after they were end-of-lifed for
| $800," Allen says. "The switch was a 3Com Superstack 100Mbit/sec. Ethernet
| switch. I think it was a pair of them, each with 24 ports connected by a
| matrix cable."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127150&source=rss_topic122
Atomic Linux.
Market share pie:
http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/linuxposter.jpg
Recent:
Why is Linux THE FASTEST operating system today?
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| Now that I mentioned supercomputers at the time of this writing the worlds
| fastest supercomputer runs Linux. In fact most of them run Linux as you will
| see here in the list of the top 500 supercomputers. Out of all of the
| operating systems on these supercomputers Linux is a whopping 87.8% with
| windows only (giggle) 1% as can be seen here. The current worlds fastest
| supercomputer runs..... Redhat Linux and Fedora. The exact same ones you can
| download and install on your personal computer.
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/why-is-linux-the-fastest-operating-system-today-28534
Linux shows staying power on Top500
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| The latest list indicates growing Linux dominance. Linux is used in the top
| nine supercomputer systems in the world. When considered as the primary OS or
| part of a mixed-OS supersystem, Linux is now present in 469 of the
| supercomputer sites, 93.8% of the Top500 list.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/11/25/linux-shows-staying-power-on-top500/
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