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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. IIEMYIWKYA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If i ever meet you, I will kick your ass!

  2. Re:Why Linux? by mike3411 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good idea, it might actually have enough processing power not to start chugging when Outlook opens.

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