University of Colorado to Use SiCortex Cluster for Space Studies
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| SiCortex, the emerging leader in compact, low power multicore Linux® systems,
| announced today that the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
| at the University of Colorado has purchased and installed a SiCortex SC648
| half-teraflop system as an integral part of its research into solar
| influences, planetary physics, atmospheric science and space physics.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080318005526&newsLang=en
[sarcasm] They tried XP in it , but the cluster caught malware and became part
of a botnet. [/sarcasm]
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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