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So does Cray. Our now-five year old machine, "Trinity", runs what's claimed to be a Cray-modified linux system with >960,000 cores (almost 9 megawatts!). The next gen that's now running at LLNL is similar but bigger I think and the forthcoming third-gen 150 petaflop system coming in 2022 will also use that.

You know it's serious when the computers have building-sized cooling towers out back.

Just a humble little OS. It's probably installed with a USB-stick like mine at home.
Back in another life doing commercial flooring instead of IT stuff we got to put the floors in the expansion at the WI headquarters back in the late 80s. Since I was a geek even back then they let me tour and I got my first look at a 8" floppy disk.

The rest of the factory was interesting though.
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