Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:16:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux Goes Postal Message-ID: <199804231816.LAA27268@rah.star-gate.com>
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http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?52485 Linux goes "Postal" ! Posted by: rmoyers Date posted: Thu Apr 23 0:06:03 PDT 1998 article about Linux batch clusters that are now doing the OCR for mail sorting at the US Postal service. Here is the header and pointer to the story from the fellow that did it. "Linux is reading your mail, John Taves, April 8, 1998 The United States Postal Service deployed over 900 Linux based systems throughout the United States in 1997 to automatically recognize the destination addresses on mail pieces. Each system consists of 5 dual Pentium Pro 200MHz (PP200) computers and one single PP200 all running Linux." http://members.aa.net/~jtaves/linux.htm On an interesting Note, i wonder how many system OEM/VAR teams this fellow beat out in the bid for the job, ill bet 10 dollars to a doughnut that this Linux hacker beat out others offering systems costing 10s of millions more. Other links about Linux supercomputing Linux Brings Titanic to Life Digital Domain uses Linux supercomputing cluster to create high-tech visual effects. http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue46/2494.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/139296.asp I'm Not Going to Pay a Lot for This Super Computer ! http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue45/2392.html "Beowulf" linux supercomputing at NASA http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html the SWARM Linux supercomputer http://www.CS.ORST.EDU/swarm/ the Loki Linux supercomputer http://loki-www.lanl.gov/ The Grendel Linux supercomputing cluster http://ece.clemson.edu/parl/grendel.htm Linux supercomputing cluster at Caltech http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/resea rch/beowulf/ Cheers !! Raymond ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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