| IBM to build Linux supercomputer |
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| Publication: | Reuters | Date: | Aug 04 2004 |
International Business Machines says it has been selected to build a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defence that help develop advanced weapons for the army.
The computer, code named "Stryker", will be deployed at the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Centre in Aberdeen, Maryland, IBM said on Tuesday.
IBM did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
The supercomputer consists of 1,186 powerful IBM computers connected together with a total of about 2,300 64-bit microprocessors made by AMD. The supercomputer would run on the Linux operating system.
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