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NASA To Get 10,240 Node Itanium 2 Linux Cluster

Posted by Hemos on from the building-it-better-safer-and-faster dept.

starwindsurfer writes "US space agency Nasa is to get a massive supercomputing boost to help get its shuttle missions back in action after the 2003 shuttle disaster. Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants, will mean Nasa's computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to do complex simulations."

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  1. speaking of clusters... by Savves · · Score: 0, Redundant

    are we gonna get another barrage of /. beowulf cluster jokes?

  2. Doom.... by MortgageMan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't care as long as you can play DOOM on it...