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the u.s. airforce navy army and nasa ; and many of the top universities around the world including california institute of technology mit and stanford university . citation needed as an apple value added reseller and ibm business partner terra soft solutions provided turnkey and build to order desktop workstations servers and high performance computing clusters . terra soft made their yellow dog linux distribution solely for power architecture optimizing the distributions for altivec and the cell . terra soft was the first to support a variety of apple computers with linux pre installed under a unique license with apple . when apple abandoned powerpc cpus in favor of the intel core chips terra soft was able to concentrate on high performance computing and the cell broadband engine working closely with ibm and sony for the playstation 3 products . citation needed in 2006 terra soft was contracted by sony to provide a linux operating system for the playstation 3 used by several university researchers as an inexpensive powerful cluster compute node . today fixstars of tokyo japan carries forward the yellow dog linux and yellow dog enterprise linux product line with primary focus on heterogeneous multi core cpus such as the cell broadband engine and nvidia gpu . clarification needed references edit fixstars provides complete cell b.e. ecosystem through acquisition of terra soft solutions press release . fixstars . 11 november 2008 . retrieved 10 april 2016 . external links edit corporate website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fixstars solutions & oldid 714585764 categories companies based in coloradocomputer companies of the united statesfree software companieslinux companiespower architecturesoftware companies based in californiahidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from july 2012all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from july 2012all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles needing additional references from july 2012all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2008wikipedia articles needing clarification from december 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olitaliano svenska edit links this page was last modified on 10 april 2016 at 17 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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