“NASA has decided to base Project Columbia, which will boost its computing capacity tenfold, on SGI’s Linux-based Altix machines and integrate 20 512-processor Altix systems with 500TB of SGI’s InfiniteStorage to create the Space Exploration Simulator.”

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