Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux

jgercken writes "The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has brought online a 11.8 teraflops supercomputer based on the Linux operating system, comprised of ~2,000 Itanium processors, and assembled by HP. Touted to be the fastest unclassified computer in the US, its main duties will be atmospheric chemistry, systems biology, catalysis and materials science."

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Re:What about the classified ones?

[stoborrobots]

as some AC pointed out below, you can have classified supercomputers that people know about...

2 classified supercomputers in the US, dedicated to nuclear weapons research...