HP to use Linux in leading supercomputer

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 17, 2002,

[Buffalo Bob]

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Wednesday it will build the world's most powerful supercomputer using the Linux operating system to study biotechnology and radioactive waste detection.

HP won the $24.5 million contract from the Department of Energy to install the computer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., the company said in a statement. The computer will have 1,400 Itanium processors from Intel Corp.

Linux is an open operating system that companies can copy or change without charge.

[isthisnickcool]

You are using Linux right now. FR runs on it.

[altair]

The computer will have 1,400 Itanium processors from Intel Corp.

Yowza.

[Bush2000]

You are using Linux right now. FR runs on it.

No wonder it's so damned slow and down so often...

[isthisnickcool]

Ah, the local Microsoft Kool-Aide drinker. Took you a whole day to find this:)