The World's Biggest Science Experiment Runs Linux

Sep 10, 2008, 15:45 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

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"CernVM runs inside of VMware virtual machines that include PC and Macs across a grid that encompased the power of approximately 40,000 CPUs and some 15 petabytes of data a year."

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