It comes direct from Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. with 1 Install DVD, 1 Source DVD, a Printed Guide to Install, a Yellow Dog Linux Flexible Flyer, a Yellow Dog Linux sticker, 6 months Install Support via YDL.net Enhanced account which features a private yum repository, personal email, blog, and more.
Archive for December 11, 2006
PlayStation3 based super-computing clusters running on Linux
As many people know Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft, now runs on the Cell engine in Sony’s PS3. That’s very cool, but the thing many people may not realize is that Terra Soft isn’t so much in the yellow dog business as it is in the supercomputing and life sciences software businesses. It is a perfect match for the supercomputing first generation Cell processor that is already up to 60 times faster, and between and 200 times more power efficient, than its competitors — numbers to keep in mind when you think about Apple’s triumph in arranging to get dual core Xeon CPUs from Intel for only slightly more than than four times the $89 Sony is estimated to pay for an 8+1 cell at 3.2Ghz.
