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
Related:
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
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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http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=745663
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