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“The distributed cluster is post-modern networking’s new
darling and industry voyeurs are leering at her sheer computational
potential as she postures to take the quivering geriatric
supercomputer for everything he’s got. She’s got speed, Linux and
big brothers on her side.“
“IBM, for one, has forged several agreements with the likes of
VA Linux Systems in projects as wide reaching as the recently
announced Los Lobos, which is part of the National Science
Foundation’s (NSF’s) National Computational Sciences Alliance
(NCSA), to the Department of Energy’s (DoE’s) Chiba City cluster at
the Argonne National Lab.”