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Transmeta Meets Blades

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the are-there-any-vampires dept.

The Griller writes "Gordon Bell, one of the creators of VAX, and Linus Torvalds were at the launch of a new supercomputing platform at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Based on Crusoe processors from Transmeta and running a version of linux, it is aimed at being cheaper than conventional supercomputers by requiring no cooling and lower maintenance. " Basically, it's blade clustering, using Beowulf.

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  1. Slashdotted ALREADY?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh well, here's a list of mirrors...

  2. Forget Beowulf by guttentag · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine if these weren't clustered...

  3. Interesting Wording... by evilviper · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Gordon Bell, one of the creators of VAX, and Linus Torvalds"

    Wow, so it is true... Linus is a robot.
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