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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur is one of the premier institutions established by the Government of India. The institute wanted to modernize and scale proprietary, SMP-UNIX infrastructure and setup a high performance computing environment that can handle cutting edge research projects. The institute also wanted to simplify management and system administration. IIT Kanpur's tryst with Linux on the HPCC front began in late 2002. After setting up its first experimental Beowulf cluster with 16 Pentium III class servers on Red Hat Linux 7, the benefits of using an open source platform became apparent. Initially, the cluster was meant to be only a test bed for running parallel applications.

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