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"Live, installable Linux distribution that communicates between clusters of computers so that they can work in parallel

"Iker Castanos, a student of Technical Engineering in Computerized Management at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has designed the very first live Linux distribution that, initiated either from a DVD or by installation, communicates between clusters of computers so that they can work in parallel.

"Work on a nuclear fusion project to create cleaner energy took Castanos into the world of clusters. Professors Izaskun Garrido and Aitor Josu Garrido of the Advanced Control Group in the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation at UPV/EHU approached students looking for a volunteer to configure a cluster for their project. They were using ASTRA and MATLAB code to simulate a nuclear fusion reactor, and Castanos volunteered for the project."

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