"Linux boxes are being deployed in HPC (High Performance Computing), oil & gas, manufacturing, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and pharmaceuticals. The HPC market remains the biggest supporter of the Penguin, however. As Pallab Talukdar, Director, Enterprise Marketing & Alliances, Customer Solutions Group, HP India Sales, puts, 'For lower TCO, you need an architecture that supports open source.'
"Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Pune, is a one teraflop installation with 78 nodes in clusters based on the 64-bit Itanium 2 processor running Linux..."
