US Forest Service buys Linux-based supercomputer

Officials at Cray Inc., a supercomputer manufacturer, introduced earlier this
week the XD1 Linux-based supercomputer. Starting at less than $100,000, the XD1
is a less expensive alternative to the company's traditional supercomputers, and
it is designed to outperform Linux clusters built using generic off-the-shelf
parts that are increasingly popular with government high-performance computing
shops. The U.S. Forest Service is among the first customers for the XD1, and
officials there will use the computer to predict and track the paths of smoke
plumes from forest fires, according to the agency officials. Source and full
story at:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2004-10-07-trees-n-tux_x\
.htm

Being a forestry research, I whish that Indian forestry can also have one. Or
probably we can have our own Param and generation up from it customized to suite
forestry research.

-Tarun
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