Panasas Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Garth Gibson writes that Intel’s acquisition of Whamcloud casts doubt on Lustre’s potential future as an enterprise file system. The Whamcloud acquisition highlights one of the major challenges with the open source Lustre file system. Without sufficient contributors to the Lustre code base – such...

Ars technica has a brief look at the world's fastest x86-based supercomputer and Europe's fastest supercomputer—not to mention the 4th most powerful in the world. The SuperMUC, which runs SUSE Linux, is located at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. "A statement issued by SUSE says...

Over at Scalability.org, Joe Landman writes that the recent financial debacle with the Encanto supercomputer in New Mexico shows that it is more important than ever to have a valid business model in today’s HPC market. University level supercomputing centers are common. State/regional level centers are subject to politics as...

If there's one fact of computing life, it's that there's never enough damn storage, and if you think it's bad now, just wait 'til you're downloading 4K movies. Still, research is at least keeping up, and now scientists can store bits of information on single molecules—which could pave the way...