Ashlee Vance reports on the unveiling of Green Destiny — a compact Beowolf supercomputer powered by Crusoe processors and Linux — at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday. Vance writes at InfoWorld . . .

” . . . Gordon Bell, one of the original brains behind the minicomputer, and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, joined a collection of scientists for the unveiling of the supercomputer, a Beowolf cluster called Green Destiny and was built from hundreds of so-called blade servers — compact servers stripped down to their most basic components . . . “

” . . . The engineers who developed the systems here said they preferred to use blades powered by Crusoe processors from Transmeta because the Crusoe chips don't rely on boosting transistor count to achieve faster performance, which they said is the case with chips from rivals Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel . . . “

A white paper about the project is available in pdf format.

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