My best guess:
Putting Linux on subsidized hardware makes for affordable compute for large labs.
Example [here](https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...).
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Example [here](https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...).
Which it seems to be.
As far as relating goes for most story lines you should be able to relate as much as one possibly could to a space opera.
Source: Sister was studying the Canadian LSAT.