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Linux on Mars: NASA and SGI Search for Little Green Men, LinuxWorld

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

August 16, 2004

“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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