"The Linux superclusters are the new supercomputers of the 21st Century. We see them as replacing the traditional Cray, IBM, and Silicon Graphics supercomputers because of their cost benefit." - Frank Gilfeather, the University of New Mexico's director of supercomputing, predicting big things for the open-source operating system.
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