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Reuters/Yahoo!: NSF to Fund $53 Million Dollar Linux Super Computer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 10, 2001

Anthony Awtrey
writes:

I love good news! Enterprise ready, anyone?

“The National Science Foundation said it will spend $53
million to build a massive computing grid that will be the most
powerful of its kind ever completed and could lead to
ground-breaking research that would have otherwise taken years, if
not decades, to complete.

“…The DTF, which will be connected using Qwest Communications
International Inc.’s 40-gigabit-per-second network, will be built
by International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM)
, using Intel Corp.’s (NASDAQ:INTC)
Itanium microprocessors and the Linux operating system. More than a
thousand IBM servers and 3,300 next-generation Itanium McKinley
chips will comprise the DTF.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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