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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • August 14, 2001
    ``Forget supercomputers. The US Government is building an incredibly powerful computer.

    ``Next year it hopes to throw the switch on a massive distributed computing system, dubbed the Teragrid, that can carry out over 13 trillion calculations per second.

    ``Four US supercomputer centres are collaborating to create the machine that will employ over 3,000 separate processors.''

    Full story:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1490000/1490272.stm

    And it will run Linux! Seriously, it will!

    Reference by Jarl van Katwijk.

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