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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 10:15 PM EDT |
As we all know here, the majority of the world's supercomputers run on Linux.
The CERN Atlas experiment was Canada's contribution to this and it relies on a
an IBM supercomputer at the University of Toronto, which, of course, runs
Linux.
Thanks to AT&T & BSD, Unix and now Linux does very well in the
scientific world.
BTW, those who watched the movie "Contact" may recall a scene where
there was a "Unix Party" button on a computer monitor. When watching
science shows, I'm always on the lookout for computers running Linux. There are
a lot of them.
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Authored by: globularity on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 04:22 AM EDT |
There is a lot more to an accelerator than data processing, the instrumentation
on these machines is prodigious. Epics is a popular accelerator instrumentation
package usually deployed on linux machines. I have no idea how you would manage
a windows accelerator unless ssh was installed on every box, pity about the VME
crates and embedded processors that cannot run windows in that case.
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