IBM's Got Serious Game
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| IBM reported last week that it won the bid to supply
| the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration with
| its latest supercomputer. It will begin installing the first phase of
| the machine, nicknamed Roadrunner, this October.
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| Although the supercomputer's name is Roadrunner, and it uses chips
| designed for the gaming industry, its initial task will be no game --
| it'll be simulating nuclear explosions. However, because the machine is
| built from commercially available hardware and based on Linux software,
| the cost of building and maintaining the supercomputer will inevitably
| drop over time. As it does, a variety of new and more
| business-friendly applications will emerge.
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It sounds like a matter of time until the PS3 design is modified to offer
high-performance, low-cost Linux servers. Big Blue is getting bigger with
Linux whilst Microsoft has assigned a budget of half a billion dollars to
combat IBM, directly. And that's just the desktop and server space. Google
is up there with Linux-powered Web services and Web-based applications.
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