The #1 supercomputer in the world, the IBM Roadrunner, produced at a cost of nearly $100 million dollars, runs Fedora. IBM has been working on and contributing to Fedora, using it as a prototype for the new cell architecture that leads to this supercomputer.
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Based on horsepower output from the cell processor, the PS3 is actually classified as a supercomputer by current benchmarks. Apple had the first desktop available to consumers which broke past the supercomputer benchmark at it's time of release.
I don't know if any of that is remotely on topic or even if you meant because you had a custom rig running fedora as your media center machine. You just reminded me of a conversation a while back when a friend pointed to his PS3 and said; "I can claim that I have a supercomputer to play my games on."
If not mentioned in this article, I read elsewhere that (I thought it was Red Hat proper but), Fedora runs against the intel cpu for general workload while something else handles heavy workload through the cell processors. With it being IBM, I just assumed they did some custom code or used there own inhouse build on top of a Linux kernel against the cells though.
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2008-06-03
So now I can tell people I own a miniature version of the worlds fastest supercomputer in my living room, and it plays Gran Turismo.