[SGVLUG] The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux | Ars Technica

[Claude Felizardo]

Wow so they still like CORBA for messaging eh?  No wonder they need so many
computers.  It wouldn't surprise me if each application is running on a
separate blade computer so if a program crashes or gets stuck in a loop, it
doesn't take everything down with it.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

> On 10/18/2013 05:17 PM, James McDuffie wrote:
> > Here is an article about the USS Zumwalt which runs Linux on commodity
> > hardware in the ship's data center. Additionally, all the station
> > consoles
> > can run multiple Linux virtual machines atop LynuxWorx's Lynx Secure.
> >
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-navys-newest-warship-is-powered-by-linux/
>
>  "Measuring 35 feet long, 8 feet high, and 12 feet wide, the 16 EMEs
> have more than 235 equipment cabinets (racks) in total."
>
> Is that correct?  16 of them on a single ship?  Like 9400U of rack
> space?  Gez.
>
> -braddock
>
>
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