Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, uses a Debian cluster with 320 TB HP-SFS
(Lustre) filesystem as part of its 1.5 PB storage for human genome sequencing
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| Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, South Cambridgeshire, UK, runs a
| 640+ cores Debian GNU / Linux cluster with 320 Terabytes of "live data", like
| a giant virtual memory swap partition, out of its 1.5 Petabytes of storage.
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http://times.debian.net/1225-Sanger-Institute-Debian-cluster-320-TB-swap-1.5-PB-storage
Nice list of Linux/FOSS migrations here:
http://lxer.com/module/db/viewby.php?uid=108&option=&value=&sort=108&offset=0&dbn=12
On a separate note, regarding Asus, there is little reason to worry about their
Xandros derivative and Windows XP because Asus has unveiled a desktop Eee and
it runs GNU/Linux. Also, XP availability has a limited life support rope.
See Microsoft's latest SEC filing. Linux is thetop threat. The Eee PC runs XP
only because Microsoft gave ASUS a considerable discount, which is why
Microsoft empties its pocket fighting Linux, not 'piracy'.
Related:
Basically, DNA is a computing problem
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| Think of it as the biggest Linux swap partition in the world, since the whole
| system is running on Debian Linux. The genome project uses open source
| software as much as possible, and one of its major databases is run on MySQL,
| although others rely on Oracle.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/research.computing
Debian Linux cluster beats supercomputer in tsunami warnings
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| The Philippine government's official weather service, PAGASA, has replaced
| its SGI supercomputer with a clustered Debian Linux system that can process
| information vital to protection against typhoons, floods, droughts, tsunamis
| and other wild weather conditions at a fraction of the cost.
|
| The cluster includes eight PCs running as a single node, connected via a
| gigabit switch, each with dual 64-bit Intel Xeon processors running the
| Debian Linux OS.
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| "We tried several Linux flavours, including Red Hat, Mandrake, Fedora etc,"
| said Alan Pineda, head of ICT and flood forecasting at PAGASA.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1611547855
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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