MegaTux, has 4,480 Intel microprocessors running Linux virtual machines with Wine, making it possible to run 1 million copies of a Windows environment without paying licensing fees to Microsoft.
The Dell Thunderbird supercomputer used for the Sandia project has 4,480 Intel<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/intel_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org>microprocessors, far fewer than the million operating systems the researchers sought to simulate. But they used “virtual machine” software technology to get each microprocessor to simultaneously run many instances of a Linux-based component called a kernel — a basic component of an operating system that manages communications between software and hardware. Because most botnets are written for the Windows operating system, the researchers are planning to use an open source program called Wine, making it possible to run Windows-based programs without actually having the complete Windows operating system. They said they were not using Windows itself because of the licensing costs of purchasing one million copies of Windows. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1# -- "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin Always use Free Software/Open Source Software (http://www.gnu.org) Linux is an operating system, a large piece of software that manages a computer. It is similar to Microsoft Windows, but it is entirely free (as in Freedom/Livre). The accurate name is GNU/Linux but "Linux" is used more often. http://www.getgnulinux.org/linux/ Firefox - Rediscover the web - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Please don´t send me m$-office attachments, use instead an open file format such as the one provided by OpenOffice.org or PDF (http://www.openoffice.org* http://pt.openoffice.org/ * http://www.odfalliance.org/) O meu Blog "O Vigia" - http://ovigia.wordpress.com/ GnuPG/PGP - 1024D/AD29C160 2007/08/05 RJGN (gmail.floss) < [email protected]> Key fingerprint = BABB CED5 E462 C942 4015 FC75 EDEC 8399 AD29 C160
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