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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. All research welcome by fr0m · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    It is fairly obvious that changes in our environment has increased rapidly during the past years.
    Last winter has been one of the coldest in a few hundred years in Sweden. I was there (south part) during christmas and the warmest temperature we had was -24. The same goes for the summer here in Europe. So damn hot. Here in Paris we've had thousands of deaths due to the heat.

    Something strange is happening. All research about our "new" environment is welcome. Ocean or otherwise. What are your thoughts?