The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

Linux high availability is a must when the platform supports mission-critical applications, which is increasingly the case in enterprise data centers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 offers the Red ...

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How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...

Linux NetworX has sent out a press release proclaiming the sale of "the largest and most powerful Linux cluster" ever. This system has been sold to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and should ...

The latest version of PathScale's compiler suite includes support for AMD's 64-bit architecture, Intel's Extended Memory 64 Technology and performance improvements, the company said on Tuesday.

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with clustering pioneer Donald Becker, who started the Beowful project, and is now the CTO of Penguin Computing. I asked him a few questions about the ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Linux NetworX Announces LinuxBIOS Availability for its Evolocity Cluster Systems Provides Quicker Boot Times and Enhanced Management Capabilities SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 23, 2002 - ...

Special considerations are involved when completing the implementation of a cluster. Even with the queue system and parallel environment, extra services are required for a cluster to function as a ...

As many people know Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft, now runs on the Cell engine in Sony's PS3. That's very cool, but the thing many people may not realize is that Terra Soft isn't so much in the ...

Veritas Software Corp. last week announced a set of applications aimed at letting storage administrators cluster their Linux servers and create Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) systems. The ...