IBM Sells 60 Teraflops Power6-Linux Super in Holland
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| Server maker IBM has spent more than a decade taking on the supercomputer
| market, and has become one of the big dogs, if not the big dog, when it comes
| to building different styles of high performance computer clusters. Last
| week, the company announced its first big Power6-based Power 575
| supercomputer running Linux, nicknamed Huygens after the famous Dutch
| scientist, which was sold to SARA Computing and Networking, the national
| supercomputing network built and managed by the national government in The
| Netherlands.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071508-story02.html
Still chasing the elusive 95% market share (still at ~92%).
Recent:
Linux still super in Top500
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| In the June 2008 Top500 list, Linux still lives large with a role in 92% of
| systems (It is the only OS for 85.4%, but when considering all distributions
| (SUSE, Red Hat, CentOS, and general ‘Linux,’ as well as mixed uses that
| include Linux, I figure the share is more like the 92%).
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/26/linux-still-super-in-top500/
Debian GNU/Linux powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer
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| A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
| have created Germany's 4th largest supercomputer by using Debian GNU/Linux.
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http://times.debian.net/1250-Debian-32.8-TFlops-at-Max-Planck-Institute
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