An Australian car manufacturer has chosen a Linux-based supercomputing cluster for its design process and dismissed SCO's recent warnings about using Linux.
An Australian supercomputing consortium is poised to lease a Hewlett-Packard Itanium 2-based computing cluster to service a multi-year contract to assist car maker Holden in new vehicle design and development.
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) chief executive Dr Bill Appelbe told ZDNet Australia VPAC had opted to lease an HP Itanium 2 cluster consisting of 171GHz Itanium 2 processors, 64GB RAM, eight rx2600 nodes and more than a terabyte of storage to service the contract.
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