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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. transmeta.com by jbrw · · Score: 5, Informative
    transmeta.com has more information on why a Crusoe based solution was selected.

    It all comes down to "power consumption, size, reliability and ease of administration", apparently.

    And the marketing people at RLX Technologies should be shot for not having a press release up for this, as it's all based on their product...