[ Thanks to Ben Rosenberg
for this link. ]
“Cray has chosen SuSE Latest News about SuSE Linux to play a key
role in helping the supercomputer maker build a massive
parallel-processing supercomputer for the U.S. Department of
Energy.“Dubbed “Red Storm,” the supercomputer is expected to be the
fastest supercomputer in the U.S. It will be powered by AMD’s
Opteron 64-bit processors featuring hypertransport technology.“The prestigious contract is a major feather in the cap of SuSE,
who competes head to head with Red Hat, widely regarded as the
leading Linux vendor. SuSE was a natural choice for Cray in this
project because ‘we’ve been working with Opteron 64-bit for three
years,’ SuSE marketing vice president Joseph Eckert told
NewsFactor.“‘We started working with AMD before there was [an Opteron]
chip,’ he said. ‘We were the only operating system at [the chip’s]
launch–of any type–available on 64-bit…'”