us army & linux:
“A U.S. Army supercomputing center with a legacy that dates back to the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) launched in 1946 is moving to Linux-based clusters that will more than double its computing capability.
The Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) in Aberdeen, Md., is buying four Linux Networx Inc. Advanced Technology Clusters, including a system with 4,488 processing cores, or 1,122 nodes, with each node made up of two dual-core Intel Xeon chips. A second system has 842 nodes. In total, the purchase will increase the MSRC’s computing capability from 36 trillion floating-point operations per second to more than 80 TFLOPS, Army officials said…”
vise o tome:
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,108971,00.html
americka vlada mnogo voli linux, prvo NSA, onda igrica za poularizaciju vojnog zanimanja (AA), pa oruzje sa RT linux kernelom i trenutno ovo.
pitam se, pitam se, koji OS koriste nase vlade i njihove institucije i koliko nas to kosta?
ne verujem da koriste “sigurnost, stabilnost i otvorenost” 🙄