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We Can Compete in HPC, Say Chip Vendors
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Despite complaints that x86 chips can't scale properly for high performance computing, Intel and AMD say they have solutions in the works. -
Mozilla launches super-simple Firefox customizer
1 year ago
Browser maker debuts new directory for add-ons that's easy to use but way too sparse. -
Red Hat Delivers First Integrated Linux-Based High Performance Computing Platform
1 year, 1 month ago
Globally available today, the Red Hat HPC Solution includes all of the components necessary to build and manage a complete HPC cluster in a simple, ready-to-deploy package. -
IBM's 4.0GHz Power7 to fuel 40,000 chip monster
1 year, 4 months ago
"IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip .... " -
Parallel Computing`s Already Here
1 year, 8 months ago
Microsoft's Craig Mundie is right. Parallel computing is going to change everything about computing, but his timing is off. Thanks to Linux, it's been here for years. -
Sun offers up Solaris clustering to open source
2 years, 4 months ago
Two years after it first offered open source code for Solaris, Sun Wednesday said it would open source the cluster technology for the operating system.Sun will post the code to High Availability Clusters community on OpenSolaris.org in three phases, the first being a set of 24 high availability agents.
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Nvidia's Tesla chips not just for pretty pictures
2 years, 5 months ago
The graphics chipmaker has a new lineup of chips that can be plugged into servers or workstations to boost the performance of scientific computing applications.
Linux.com : High Performance Computing
Hands-on Hadoop for cluster computing
Hadoop is a distributed computing platform that provides a framework for storing and processing petabytes of data. Because it is Java-based, Hadoop runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X. Hadoop is widely used in organizations that demand a scalable, economical (read commodity hardware), efficent, and reliable platform for processing vast amounts of data.
Open options for cloud computing
Some cloud computing vendors, such as 3tera and Nirvani, push their own proprietary platforms and tools, which forces adopters to limit their options and work in a restricted or closed architecture. When these established vendors say cloud, they mean their cloud. As a result, Web developers may believe that, in order to use cloud computing, they must accept limitations in the way they write and build their applications. But that view is a misconception; open standards for cloud computing are already in place and are being tweaked.
Rocks clusters make sense for educational environments
Cluster computing has played a pivotal role in the way research is conducted in educational environments. Because the amount of available money and hardware varies between university researchers, often it's necessary to find a clustering solution that can work well on a small scale, but also can be expanded into a large computing cluster. To maximize grants, researchers typically ask for an open source solution to meet their needs. Despite the lack of certain desirable features, Rocks clusters are among the best open source solution for building a computing cluster.
Pain-free disk space management with LVM
Managing disk space used to be a royal pain for admins and users. Running out of disk space often meant reinstalling Linux or spending a few hours with tools like Parted to resize partitions. However, using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) tools, you can grow, shrink, and manage disk space with very little hassle.
