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The computer maker will unveil "Terascale," which uses 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors housed in 750 servers and calculates as fast as 10,000 desktop PCs.
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German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.
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