"Linux is in the running to power the world's biggest computer,
we learned this week at LinuxWorld Expo. A bid is being prepared to
provide the computing power behind the US government sponsored
Project Purple, which will pool a vast server farm to the three
leading US research labs, which is scheduled to come on stream by
the end of 2004.
"But this differs from your usual Linux-employed-in-big-lab
story in a particularly interesting way, which is orthogonal to the
interest in file system architecture raised by our Longhorn
story..."
