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U.S. may select Linux to run world’s biggest computer [The Register]

Feb 1, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 1 views

Andrew Orlowski of The Register reports that Linux is in the running to power the world's biggest computer, something called “Purple”. Orlowski writes . . .

“A bid is being prepared to provide the computing power behind the US government sponsored Project Purple, which will pool a vast server farm to the three leading US research labs, which is scheduled to come on stream by the end of 2004 . . .”

“What is Purple? Well, as Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's Mark Seager explains, it's the fifth generation of ASCI, computer-pooling project between Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos labs. ASCI provides nuclear simulations, and Purple follows Red, Blue and White and Q . . .”

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