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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: orcpeon on 24 September 2002, 08:33
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Lab to sample Linux for weapons work (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959082.html)
"Los Alamos National Laboratory is buying a $6 million, 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons simulation software, an effort that will test the limits of these less expensive megamachines."
"The Science Appliance, due by the end of the year, will be capable of a peak computational speed of 10 trillion calculations per second, Linux NetworX said. The computing nodes will be stacked 50 to a rack, with 27 racks taking up a patch of floor space about 18 by 25 feet. The nodes are connected with a high-speed switch from Myricom."
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I believe you will find *nix has been used in military simulation and data crunching for many years, I mention such research heavyweights as the Crays. And I for one would rather see less detonations and more computer simulations thank-you. Thank heavens it's not M$ ware. Or you'll probably find Alsaka missing on the day they actually fire one of those babies.
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i use Linux all the time to develop my weapons of mass destr..... I've said too much.