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Lightweight Linux for High-Performance Computing (LinuxWorld.com)

[Posted December 4, 2006 by ris]

LinuxWorld.com takes a look at lightweight Linux for HPC. "Linux has long provided an outstanding operating system for a wide range of users in a variety of settings. However, high-performance computing users, who must run applications on thousands of nodes, historically have faced challenges that Linux could not effectively address."

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Posted Dec 5, 2006 19:59 UTC (Tue) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]

Lovely article - which does explain the need for lighterweight Linux for
HPC - but it's basically a Cray advertisement. You would get more about
HPC by spending five minutes reading the titles of the threads in the
Beowulf mailing list archives IMHO.