"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."
