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Boeing on Wednesday bought a 96-processor supercomputer based on the Linux operating system and Advanced Micro Devices processors for use in designing the new Delta IV rocket that launches satellites into space.
The system was built by Linux Networx, a Sandy, Utah-based company that specializes in "Beowulf" clusters--gangs of networked Linux machines that collectively tackle computational problems.

The system is the fourth that Linux Networx has sold to the aerospace giant, but it's the first using AMD (NYSE: AMD) chips, said spokesman Brad Rutledge.

Though AMD is known chiefly for giving rival Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) a run for its money in the desktop computer market, the company also has a modest effort under way to crack into the low-budget Beowulf supercomputer market.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2696507,00.html

 

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so they made, what, $10k from that?

 

[Adul]

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It's more an image, bragging rights, publicity type deal. How much money did IBM make by having one of their supercomputers challenge a world renowned chess champion? I'd be interested to know what the actual role of the AMD beowulf cluster is in the design process. I'm guessing Boeing has some other computing support.