[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Linux admins, start checking out the HOWTOs and FAQs on Linux
clusters. While they might not be as common as file and print
servers, Linux-based supercomputers are increasingly showing up at
medium and large-sized businesses to simulate everything from
product designs to the company’s own business processes.“Large corporations have been using supercomputers for more than
a decade. Global oil companies, for instance, initially used the
machines to model the geology of potential drilling sites. Some
companies began to use the machines to try ‘what-if’ scenarios
about their own businessprocesses when advanced mathematical
modeling applications became available. Only supercomputers could
handle the dizzying number of variables that describe a large
business…”