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Linux Chosen for IBM's New Supercomputer

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the called-up-from-the-farm-leagues dept.

Uhh_Duh writes "news.com is reporting that Linux will be the main OS in the Blue Gene - IBM's $100m supercomputer project. The Blue Gene will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory." Wow. That's a lot of nuclear weapons simulations.

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  1. Re:Try to /. this baby! by Shillo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On the downside, /. will need one to run a few years down the road. :)

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  2. Quake on IBM.. by MosesJones · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    A Salesman once stated in all seriousness that using the AIX S/80 64Way I could have 128 concurrent Quake users, this meant getting 128 graphics cards but it could be done.

    Now we know how they test them :-)

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