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The Innovation Ecosystem Around OpenStack is Finally Ramping Up

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OStatic
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OpenStack has already earned support across the IT industry from users, developers, cloud providers, and vendors, but many deployments are still new, and we have yet to see how people will innovate around the platform. Everybody from AT&T to Rackspace and the Linux Foundation to IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, and Yahoo keeps touting innovation surrounding OpenStack, but where might there be surprises for the platform over the next several years.

That topic has been on the table at some recent events and in recent interviews. Here are the details.

At the OpenStack Summit, HP officials delivered a keynote on innovation and OpenStack. You can watch a video of it here.  Like several other companies, HP is focused on OpenStack for more than just infrastructure. It sees the platform as extensible and is aware of ecosystem of tools that orbit OpenStack.

 

 
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Even With Re-Clocking, Nouveau Remains Behind NVIDIA’s Proprietary Linux Driver

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Phoronix
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Starting out the last week of July’s Linux benchmarking on Phoronix is a fresh comparison of several NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards when comparing the performance of the latest open-source Nouveau driver against the latest NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver. While the Kepler cards now support GPU re-clocking, the results aren’t quite ideal yet.

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Power Up Your Video with VLC Media Player and Other Free Tools

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OStatic
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If you’ve got some time to add another open source application to your arsenal, getting to know VLC Media Player, available for Windows, the Mac and Linux, is one of the best choices you can make. The application is famous for handling nearly any kind of video file format for playback; you can use it as a video transcoder for converting video file formats; and you can listen to and manage podcasts with it.

Version 2.1.5 of VLC Media Player is available now. One thing that people routinely miss about this application is that it’s not just a player. You can use it to stream and broadcast video and other media content, and that includes streaming content to a smartphone, iPad or other mobile device. Here is our newly updated collection of getting started guides for VLC, including guides for streaming your content.

 

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KDE Releases Ice-Cream Coloured Plasma 5 Just in Time for Summer

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The Register
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Melty but refreshing – popular rival to Mint’s Cinnamon’s still a work in progress

Review  Plasma 5, released last week, is a major redesign of the Unix KDE desktop environment and underlying frameworks.…

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Samsung Indefinitely Puts the Brakes on Tizen Launch

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ZDNet
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It’s the Android-rival mobile operating system that never was. At least for now, anyway.

Rackspace Tacks on More Open Source Database Support

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ZDNet
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Rackspace’s senior product director touted the expanded support should make “scaling and performance problems a thing of the past.”

Power-Hungry SSDs: Hotter Than Disks

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ZDNet
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Making flash SSDs look like disks isn’t easy. In fact, advanced high-performance SSDs use more power and run much hotter than disks. They aren’t your fathers thumb drive.

Radio Free HPC Looks at the Need for Better Resource Management in Linux

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insideHPC
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“With next-generation technology like non-volatile memories and PCIe SSDs, there are going to be more resources in addition to the CPU that need to be scheduled to make sure everything fits in memory and does not overflow. I think the time has come for Linux – and likely other operating systems – to develop a more robust framework that can address the needs of future hardware and meet the requirements for scheduling resources. This framework is not going to be easy to develop, but it is needed by everything from databases and MapReduce to simple web queries.”

The post Radio Free HPC Looks at the Need for Better Resource Management in Linux appeared first on insideHPC.

 
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Xen Hypervisor: Assign Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine

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The Linux Foundation
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Dealing with our daily admin tasks we face lot of requests where we need to assign virtual disks or additional disks to Virtual Machines running on Xen hypervisor .

Xen hypervisor have lot of â€œxm†commands that can be used to manage the functionality  of Xen VM’s .

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AWS Worry Misplaced: Welcome to the Maturing Cloud

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ZDNet
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Amazon’s earnings spurred a flurry of worry about Amazon Web Services’ growth. The larger takeaway that the cloud service game is maturing.

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