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OSDL Board Seeks Two-Way Communication With Vendors, Developers

By Jennifer LeClaire
Mar 23, 2006
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The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Technical Advisory Board. The group's initial goal is to improve communication among Linux stakeholders. The OSDL is a non-profit global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux-based operating systems i...

Fast NASA Action Begets World’s Largest Linux Supercomputer

By Paul Korzeniowski
Mar 31, 2005
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The space shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003 sparked development of the world's second largest supercomputer, a system with 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors capable of performing 51.87 trillion calculations per second. Not only did the supercomputer, appropriately dubbed Columbia, stretch Li...

NASA, Intel and SGI Plan Linux Supercomputer

By Elizabeth Millard
Jul 29, 2004
LinuxInsider
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Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced that NASA has chosen the company's Altix as the foundation of Project Columbia, a collaboration between SGI and Intel that is expected to foster scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, global warming research and aerospace engineering. For the project, NASA pl...

SGI Scales Linux to 256 Processors, Plans for 512

By Jay Lyman
Mar 10, 2004
LinuxInsider
552 Words

Silicon Graphics on Wednesday touted as a breakthrough and industry first its achievement of support for as many as 256 Intel Itanium 2 processors with a single instance of the Linux operating system. In addition to immediate availability of its Advanced Linux Environment with ProPack 2.4 for Altix ...