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"The Linux superclusters are the new supercomputers of the 21st Century

"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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