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32,000 processors and no license fee for Linux!
"IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new computing milestone for the company".

"Roadrunner, which will run Linux and include software to juggle tasks between the Opteron and Cell processors, will be built using commercially available IBM hardware".

Meanwhile, in Redmond, a similar Windows based project (with Windows per-processor licensing fees running into millions of dollars) has had to be scrapped due to the fact that

a) Windows won't scale
and
b) If it did, it would just get infected by viruses quicker
Posted by: whisperycat   Posted on: 09/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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32,000 processors and no license fee for Linux!  whisperycat | 09/07/06
So  Loverock Davidson | 09/07/06
No it isn't Microsoft's market  Sabz5150 | 09/07/06
was Linux meant to scale...  spatula6 | 09/07/06
Look at the top 500 supercomputers in the world  Sabz5150 | 09/07/06
That they spent all their money on hardware?  CattleProd | 09/07/06
And got more hardware that they would have otherwise  Sabz5150 | 09/07/06

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