Re: Large parallel computers

Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:10:02 -0500

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At 10:09 AM -0500 on 3/8/99, Bruce Schneier wrote:

> Didn't some government agency recently install a massively parallel
> computer, with a few thousand Pentium Pros. Does anyone remember stats on
> that computer?

Wasn't it at Los Alamos, running a parallel version of Linux called Beowulf(?)?

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RAH
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