[ Thanks to Benjamin Urias Diaz for this
link. ]
“Hewlett-Packard announced a high-profile contract Tuesday to
build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the U.S. Department of
Energy.“The $24.5 million supercomputer will be capable of processing
8.3 trillion calculations per second (8.3 teraflops), according to
HP. That would place the system among the current top 10 of the
world’s fastest supercomputers, if it were operating today.“HP expects to have the supercomputer running at the Department
of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland,
Wash., early next year. The supercomputer will be used for
biological and environmental research, including genomics work, at
the laboratory’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
(EMSL)…”