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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. Wouldn't it be cool? by MsWillow · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Wouldn't it be great to have a Beowulf cluster of these? Oh, wait. Nevermind :)

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