NewsForge: Linux Grids Take Over High Performance Computing at Penn State

“Linux-based computing grids are becoming the default setup at
Penn State University’s High Performance Computing department,
thanks in part to the Emerging Technologies (ET) group at the
college.

“The group investigates and reports on IT technologies,
architectures and strategies that it believes would be beneficial
to the school. With a desire to do scientific research better than
it ever has, three years ago Penn State began implementing Linux
clusters. ‘There’s a huge commitment to high performance
computing,’ says Al Williams, the team leader for ET…”

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