jbrodkin writes 'SiCortex had an idea that it thought would take the supercomputing world by storm — build the most energy-efficient HPC clusters on the planet. But the recession, and the difficulties of penetrating a market dominated by Intel-based... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Wed, Nov 04 2009
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