Canada to Launch Countrywide Virtual SuperComputer

LadyCatra writes "A serious shortage of world-class computing power in Canada prompted University of Alberta scientists to create the next best thing -- a countrywide, virtual supercomputer. On Nov. 4, thousands of computers from research centres across the country will be strung together by a U of A effort to create the most powerful computer in this country. The full story is here"

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Re:Why build a new, separate system?

[sPaKr]

First of all, screw legion. Your jackasses take public money to develop a system which isnt even opensource! If you want people to use legion why do you lockup access to it? Why do you produce binary releases.. wich arent even availbe unless you prove your self. Damn you look like a bunch of shitty windows java programmers that want to get paid for every line of crappy code you copy and paste into a lame application. So stop trying to push some lame unavailable closed source crap, and start ducking snipers.