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NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer

Posted by Cliff on from the penguins-exploring-the-ocean dept.

unassimilatible writes: "Federal Computer Week reports that NASA plans to study the ocean's future with the help of the world's first supercomputer of its kind to run on the Linux operating system. The new supercomputer -- an SGI AltixT 3000 single-system image supercomputer -- has been installed at the space agency's Ames Research Center in California."

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  1. Uh-oh... by Hanzie · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article explicitly says they're using NUMA archeticture.

    Obviously, it's running SCO's intellectual property. SGI doesn't really own NUMA, they only wrote it. Deep down, it's really a derivative of vi.

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  2. NASA was going to roll this out earlier... by AvantLegion · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... but their copy of Mandrake 9.2 broke their supercomputer's LG CD-ROM drive.

  3. In other news..... by micaiah · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO sues Nasa for using Linux.

    Darl McBride stated yesturday, "Since Nasa is using Linux we now own the entire universe and are claiming our rightful ownership."

  4. they also have. by rf0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A 512 CPU and 1024 CPU IRIX system. The 512 one is referred to as the small one :)

    Rus

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  5. Bad Influence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't using a supercomputer that has hundreds of very hot processors to simulate climatic change going to directly cause a change in the climet be ejecting large quantities of hot air?

  6. This new supercomputer has paid off already... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... as it has completed it's simulation of the ocean in order to predict it's future:

    cold and wet.