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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. Imagine a... by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Imagine a Beowu-- agh, forget it...

  2. Old joke by sydneyfong · · Score: 0, Troll

    Imagine those imagining a Beowulf cluster of these!!!

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    Don't quote me on this.