Thanks to Vladimir Vuksan
for this link.
“In a flurry of camera lights, men and women in suits, and even
a U.S. Senator, UNM’s newest supercomputer joined a national grid
of other supercomputers…”
“The computer is the first 128 node commodity supercluster high
performance computer. In essence, it is 128 off-the-shelf computers
connected together through high speed networking…”
“About 300 people gathered at the dedication ceremony of the new
supercluster. Sen. Pete Domenici said he was pleased…”
“The operating system for the Roadrunner is Linux. Segura said
the main reason to use Linux was it’s open-source code, which
allows access to fix any bugs.
“You can’t go to Microsoft and get the code for Windows NT,” he
said…”