William Poaster <wp@linux.amd64.eu> espoused: > On Monday 17 Dec 2007 12:31 pm, Roy Schestowitz wrote in > comp.os.linux.advocacy: > >> German Climate Computing Centre invests in new super computer >> >> ,----[ Quote ] >> | The new computer uses IBM Power6 processors and is to achieve a maximum >> | performance of 140 TFlop/s. >> `---- >> >> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/100672/from/rss09 > > The Met Office weather centre's supercomputer runs linux, & all the graphics the > BBC shows on its forecasts. It's been used for over 3 years. > > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2124661/met-office-readies-27m-weather-forecast > > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2124725/weather-forecasters-deploy-linux > > ><snip> Indeed. It's quite surprising that Ashley Highfield and friends didn't seem to see where this was going. -- | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk | | Cola faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ | | Cola trolls: http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ | | My (new) blog: http://www.thereisnomagic.org |