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BIOS: World’s Most Powerful Linux System

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 27, 2006

“Silicon Graphics has announced another high-performance
computing (HPC) first: the world’s largest computer to operate
under a single copy of the Linux OS.

“On its powerful and acclaimed SGI Altix 4700 blade platform and
a beta version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell, SGI
demonstrated a single system image (SSI) running on a world-record
1024 processors. Until that moment, the largest Linux SSI operated
on 512 processors–another SGI record…”

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Web Webster

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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