The company is using "supersystem" to describe the midrange machine, because when many people hear the word "supercomputer," they typically associate it with a device with a million dollar price tag, according to Ben Passarelli, vice president of product marketing at Linux Networx. The LS-1 is designed so that much of the integration work involved in setting up cluster computing is done at the factory so users don't have to spend as much time on the task, he said in a phone interview Monday.

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