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[News] Open Supercomputer Systems Claim Openness of Hardware and Software

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T2K Open Supercomputer Systems with Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Processors Now in
Operation

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| "The universities aimed to adopt the most advanced and highest performance 
| technology as early as possible, and have engaged in three pillars of 
| openness that make up this new shared specifications experiment: the use of 
| open source hardware architecture, open source system software, and their 
| desire to make the supercomputers widely available amongst the three 
| institutions..."     
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http://newsticker.welt.de/index.php?channel=fin&module=smarthouse&id=734463


Recent:

Purdue IT Staff Builds Supercomputer In A Half Day

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| Dwight McKay, Purdue's director of systems engineering, said Steele is
| running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. It's running a number of scientific
| programming libraries, typical scientific applications, and the cfengine, an
| open source management tool for running a large cluster.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207601782


French hybrid supercomputer to exceed 300 TFLOPS by 2009

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| Bull also emphasises that the system will run under Linux and use other open 
| source software, such as the Lustre cluster file system.  
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106975/from/rss09


Related:

Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers

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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.  
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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