"It took just three days to build one of the world's fastest
super-computers using off-the-shelf commercial parts, according to
researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
Dubbed Avalon, tha machine runs 68 Digital Equipment Alpha processors
in parallel under Linux, a free-source operating system that, so far at
least, has refused to crash under the load.
... Avalon ranked number 315 for speed on the 11th TOP 500 list of the
fastest super-computers in the world.
... "The key to the success of these machines lies in their software,
and the most important part of that software is the Linux operating
system," ... the computer hasn't suffered a single operating system crash
on any of its 68 processors during six weeks of operation.
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