The Globe and Mail: PCs By Day, Supercomputers By Night | Linux Today

The Globe and Mail: PCs By Day, Supercomputers By Night

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 19, 2006

“The students who use the computer lab at St. Francis Xavier
University in Antigonish, N.S., probably aren’t aware that at night
the lab transforms into the equivalent of a supercomputer.

“All day long, St. Francis Xavier University students sit at the
lab’s rows of PCs to surf the Internet, write papers, arrange dates
or listen to podcasts. During the day, the machines run Microsoft’s
Windows operating system. But at night that all changes. At 11 p.m,
the students are gone, the doors are locked and the lights are out.
It’s time to close Windows until morning…”


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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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