By Egan Orion: Friday 19 July 2002, 09:05 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE National Laboratory in the US has announced a purchase of the fastest supercomputer running Linux yet configured. It will have a peak theoretical speed of 9.2 TeraFlops (trillion floating point operations per second), which will place it right up there among the fastest five supercomputers. It will be tasked to perform National Security computing, which -- at Lawrence Livermore -- means simulations of performance for the US inventory of aging nuclear weapons devices. Of course this won't be your local university math department's typical Beowulf Cluster of older boxes interconnected...