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Australian IT: Universities’ $8m Linux Foray

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 15, 2003

“The Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation (QPSF)
expects to complete installation of the systems in February, making
it one of the first users of the newly launched Itanium 2-based
Linux SGI machines worldwide…

“QPSF acting chief executive Ian Atkinson said the foundation
had acquired a 64-node Altix 3700 system with 64Gb of memory for
use in production, and a 16-node system to be used as an
interactive graphical system.

“Atkinson said this was the first time QPSF had bought systems
based either on Intel processors or the Linux operating
system…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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