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April 18th, 2002, 04:54 AM
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| US Dept. of Energy says yes to Linux
HP will build a Linux powered supercomputer for the US Department of Energy Quote:
The $24.5 million supercomputer will be capable of processing 8.3 trillion calculations per second (8.3 teraflops), according to HP. That would place the system among the current top 10 of the world's fastest supercomputers, if it were operating today.
HP expects to have the supercomputer running at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., early next year. The supercomputer will be used for biological and environmental research, including genomics work, at the laboratory's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
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April 18th, 2002, 05:09 AM
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Here's some other interesting news: Quote:
HANCOM and Korean government stepped into Linux desktop mainstream
- 120K copies desktop packages are to be supplied in this year by the contract between two parties
Jan 11th, 16:39 UTC
January 9th, 2002 in Seoul, Korea - HancomLinux, a Linux expert developing and distributing Linux applications, has announced that they have concluded an agreement with the Central Procurement Office of the Korean Government to supply the 120 (thousand) copies of desktop Linux office packages in this year.
" HancomLinux Deluxe 2.0" is the product that combines the MS compatible office suite and Linux OS.
Total 120,000 Linux office packages for the desktop computers are equavalent to 23% of annual Windows based PC procurement. By the aggressive adoption of the Korean government, Hancom is said to start massive promotion and setting up the nationwide support network for the governemnt agency.
Mr. Dongkun Lee, the chief of the central procurement office who has led this contract said, "the purchase of this Linux office packages in the government will bring to us more than 80% of cost saving compared to buying exclusive softwares produced by Microsoft. We hope that this might be a good start to pump up the Linux vendors to maintain technological competnece"
Adopting this Linux system use into the Korean government agencies and ministries has an huge effect on Asian that is expected to use Linux more.
| http://linuxpr.com/releases/4405.html
About HancomLinux, Inc.(www.hancom.com)
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April 18th, 2002, 10:38 AM
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the penguin is unstoppable! YESSSSSS!
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April 18th, 2002, 02:44 PM
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the penguin isn't unstoppable (nothing in this world or the next is perfectly unstoppable), but it's certainly well suited for tasks like this... | |
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April 18th, 2002, 07:18 PM
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More good news for Linux ! 
Tough luck Micro$oft. | |
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April 19th, 2002, 11:18 AM
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i woudln't say tough luck microsoft. on a high end server setup like this, going with a sparc server with solaris on it would have more likely been the solution, so i'd say tough luck sun...
don't just see something positive for linux and think it's gonna hurt microsoft, because it's not always the case. | |
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