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.
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| 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
Three in race for Debian project leader
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| Three developers are in the running for the post of Debian project leader
| (DPL) this year, after nominations closed on March 9.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17102/1090/
Recent:
23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
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| Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing
| them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools
| cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful
| deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are
| underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1163450117
Related:
Sun officials laud Philippines open-source community
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| The Philippines has the eighth largest development community for open source
| in the world. This was revealed by Sun Microsystems executives who were here
| recently to celebrate the third anniversary of the Java Education and
| Development Initiative (JEDI)--an open source skills training program
| initiated in the Philippines by Sun Microsystems together with several local
| universities and college instructors.
|
| [...]
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| He said there are now 273 JEDI member schools in the country with 2,790
| teachers, of which 730 are well trained. He said Sun expects over 114,939
| students to benefit from the JEDI program in the Philippines this year alone.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/07/sun-officials-laud-philippines-open-source-community
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