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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. Nice to see SGI still making sales by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... I have something of a soft-spot for SGI, and it's nice to see them still making high-profile sales - it'll do their government profile no end of good :-)

    512 processors running a single image is pretty cool :-))

    Simon

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