Lab to sample Linux for weapons work (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com reports on a new Linux-based supercomputer that is being deployed at LANL for nuclear weapons simulation. "The lab has been a pioneer in building inexpensive supercomputers made out of ordinary computing components and the Linux operating system. Thus far, however, LANL's nuclear weapons simulation software runs on more expensive systems from SGI and Hewlett-Packard such as HP's $215 million "Q" now under construction. A $6 million price tag may sound like a bargain in comparison, but software must be reworked to run using less expensive clusters of Linux machines."

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