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Government Linux Gaming Supercomputer

Posted by michael on from the dream-come-true dept.

pupkick writes "Wired news has a story about a government supercomputer running Linux that 'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'"

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  1. Dupe by Hockney+Twang · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/2013233&tid=126&tid=137&tid=185&tid= 14

  2. Checking Facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    They need to double check their facts:

    From the story:one at the Maui High Performance Computing Center in Hawaii and the other at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio

    From Photo Gallery: thanks to two supercomputers in Virginia and Hawaii.

  3. This sounds like the DARPA project... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...Cougaar.

    There are a bunch of distributed agents scattered around lots of machines; some use more resources than others, and the system moves them from machine to machine in response to high loads. Nifty stuff, and open source - BSD licensed!

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  4. Re:Good news! by Rikus · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are actually many games that are either written for or will run on Linux. Just go to the sourceforge games section and see for yourself.

  5. government uses linux a lot by carnivore302 · · Score: 5, Informative
    The article suggests that the US government doesn't use linux supercomputers all that much. Because I felt the opposite is true I did a quick search on google which confirmed my initial beliefs. Mind you, I don't know if all these stories are true or hoaxes, but a couple of interesting ones are

    Linux NetworxTM EvolocityTM cluster supercomputer to study smallpox genomics in light of the threat of possible bioterror attacks here

    The Linux open-source operating system powers a new government supercomputer that will help meteorologists forecast the weather more accurately. here

    New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to 1,024 CPUs
    The National Center for Supercomputing Applications will use it for research here

    And the list goes on and on.

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  6. Re:Complex people ? by JPriest · · Score: 4, Informative

    The idea is not that new, the ARMY has some warehouses full of tank sims plugged into a central servers (usually IRIX/SGI). It is pretty cool to place several companies in there with some geeks throwing computer tanks/rpg's/crunchies etc. at you. One of the few things I did in the ARMY that was actually in the brochure :)

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  7. Semi Dupe? by drew · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not exactly a dupe, because it is referring to a different article, but this article is discussing the same project that was covered Wednesday in The War of the Virtual Worlds

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