Linux and FOSS are key players in science and research, and together they power the biggest research projects in the world. Here are four projects that show four different ways Linux is used in large-scale research.

Clipped from: www.hpc500.com (share this clip) Intersect360 Research is seeking applicants for their new HPC500 organization, an exclusive community of HPC users intent on shaping the future of the HPC industry. The HPC500 are the bellwethers of the HPC industry,” says Intersect360 Research CEO Addison Snell. “These are the organizations who bring high performance computing technology to bear on challenging problems in...

High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.0.x On Debian Squeeze - Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Squeeze) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files...

Vincent Hindriksen from StreamComputing writes that it can be difficult to determine if your CPU supports OpenCL, so he put all the information in one handy place. Often it is not clear how OpenCL works on CPUs. If you have a 8 core processor with double threading, then it mostly is...