“Korea’s Samsung, Zion Linux Systems, and the Korea Research
and Development Information Center are to co-developer a
supercomputer based on the open source operating system and the
Alpha CPU.“
“The deal, according to a report in Korea’s Maeil newspaper,
will see Samsung provide processor and hardware technology that
will be matched with Zion’s clustering expertise.”
“Zion, says the report, has already developed a supercompting
cluster, so it’s not hard to imagine the focus of the research
being on bring those techniques together into a single
machine.”