Linux has not just grown into the commercial enterprise 32-bit marketplace impacting Microsoft market share, but it also has grown up in the 64-bit high performance computing market, negatively impacting the proprietary operating systems of the various flavors of Unix including AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris(tm). Linux is a wildfire that drives costs lower, and performance higher, in the government and defense markets, in energy, in research and development, in manufacturing, and also in media, and in the life sciences. Come learn about how the HPC marketplace is using SGI Altix platforms to innovate, create, and understand their world better, faster, and more cost effectively.

[Full title: "Linux at the Core of High Performance Computing Applications for a Strategic Advantage." This presentation was recorded at the Open Source Business Conference 2004 held in San Francisco, CA. See the complete list of OSBC 2004 presentations on IT Conversations.]