Apparently not, or at least not on the one that we picture on WPMU DEV Premium!
(this has to go down as one of the best emails I’ve received this year :)
Subject: Image on your site.
Message: I found it amusing to see this image:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/themes/wpmudev-theme/images/120million.png
on your site advertising for blogging plugins. The image is of the
data center at the National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center
at Berkeley National Laboratory. ( http://www.nersc.gov ) and depicts a
large IBM RS6000 cluster supercomputer that was named Seaborg. Sadly,
it never ran a web server or anything capable of hosting WordPress, it
was strictly used for research computation. (here is another photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/berkeleylab/3525769470/in/set-72157606893223093/)
I am trying to ease WordPress into our environment for use as a
communication vehicle within our group, I’ll let you know if I
succeed.Regards,
Tom Langley
Computational Systems Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(BTW, I’m assured by our designer that we’re using a stock image on Premium :)
Just becuase it didn’t, doesn’t mean it couldn’t…
AFAIK, various Linux distros could be installed on the RS6000:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part3/section-52.html
And I don’t imagine it would have been impossible to install apache, MySQL, PHP, etc…
So, in theory, WordPress “can” run on a supercomputer… it just didn’t on that one…
:)
I think that wordpress will be easily able to run on a supercomputer. But the issue is that the operating system and the browser installed in that computer should be able to support wordpress applications.
Lol, I assumed that given the right OS it would, but it’s funner to think that it couldnt :)
Still – thanks for the comments!
I really wish I knew more about wordpress and how it all works. This article is very confusing to me. What does OS mean?