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[News] Inside NASA's World-Class Supercomputer Center: GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Inside NASA's World-Class Supercomputer Center: GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 23:28:04 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Inside NASA's world-class supercomputer center

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| That place is the advanced supercomputing 
| facility at the Ames Research Center here, 
| the home of Pleiades, NASA's flagship 
| computer, a monster of a machine that, with 
| a current rating of 973 teraflops--or 973 
| trillion floating point operations per 
| second--is today ranked the sixth-most 
| powerful supercomputer on Earth.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20003333-52.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Recent:

NASA's Nebula cloud descends on Washington

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| Nebula runs Eucalyptus using Linux and the XEN
| and KVM open source hypervisors. It also makes
| use of MySQL and the open source RabbitMQ
| messaging system, used to communicate between
| virtual machines and to push information down
| to end user browsers, according to Rabbit
| Technologies CEO Alexis Richardson.
| Richardson's outfit was recently purchased by
| VMware's SpringSource division.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/28/nebula_goes_to_goddard/
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