In article <49420096.CQW30l3LDx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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> Linux Supercomputer Maker SiCortex Lands $10 Million in Funding
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> | Linux pretty much owns the top-end of the high performance computing market
> | these days, thanks to its similarity to Unix, its open source nature, its
> | ports to many chip architectures, and its fine-turning on X64 processors.
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> | The latest round, a $10 million venture debt for SiCortex, was announced this
> | week and comes from Hercules Technology Growth Capital, a venture capitalist
> | from Palo Alto, California, that invests in technology and life sciences
> | firms.
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> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb073107-story06.html
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> Related:
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> Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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> | There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
> | of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
> | always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
> | fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
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> Which supercomputers rule?
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> | Many systems on the newest Top500 ranking, set to be released Wednesday
> | at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany,
> | weren't on the list at all when the last one was released in November 2006.
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> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584-6193475.html
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> | Traditionally, the company has performed this analysis on standard
> | desktop computers; however, the need for higher fidelity models
> | and simulations, coupled with the need to complete jobs faster,
> | necessitated an investment in a Linux supercomputer.
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I can just see gates or blammer pleading with these guys, "Pleeeeease use
winblows crapshoot code on your expensive, high level, critical spec
projects, Pleeeeeeeese."
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