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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

IBM supercomputer will run AIX, not Linux

"IBM said Monday it had been selected to build a supercomputer for the US Department of Defense that would be used by the military for war simulation, weather forecasting and other applications. The computer will be deployed at the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center in Mississippi, IBM said," reports Reuters.

"The supercomputer consists of 368 powerful computers connected together with a total of about 3,000 64-bit microprocessors made by IBM. The supercomputer would run on IBM's Unix operating system — AIX."

Comment: IBM puts a lot of effort into talking about open source, but when it comes to pocketing tens of millions of dollars, the best solution is clearly an IBM operating system running on IBM processors.

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