Cray feeling super amid company turnaround
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| Supercomputers may appear to be an ethereal realm, but they are important
| bastions of futuristic research. They often portend new technologies.
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| For example, the Linux operating system was embraced early on by the
| budget-constricted national laboratories, a signal to corporate IT managers
| that the free operating system was OK to use. Some techniques developed in
| massively parallel processing machines, where thousands of chips gang
| together to share computing of big scientific problems, were adapted in the
| development of multi-core chips for personal computers and network servers.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cray-feeling-super-amid-company/story.aspx?guid=%7B83BB04E1%2DF8BC%2D44A0%2D8CB2%2D62862B2C7071%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2vf2jk
Cray shows off new Linux supercomputers
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| Cray first introduced a Linux supercomputer called Red Storm back in 2004.
| However the announcement is significant, as it the first time that Cray has
| introduced a family of supercomputers rather than stand-alone machines.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/hardware/mainframes-supercomputers/news/index.cfm?newsid=6085
http://tinyurl.com/2q4z8v
Lots of headlines. GNU/Linux reigns in this space.
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
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