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IBM chooses Red Hat Linux for supercomputers

IBM has chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as the operating system for its parallel BlueGene/Q and Power 775 supercomputers. On the one hand based on the excellent performance of the linux-kernel, on the other one because of the cut-throat price that Linux infrastructure offers.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/19/ibm_redhat_linux_supers_loadleveler