Hardware Hacks: Onion Pi, DesignSpark and Arduino Control Boards

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June 18, 2013

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Tor anonymising proxy, RS Components introduces a site for open source hardware projects, two new boards to control Arduino projects from mobile devices, and an augmented reality backend for Drupal.

Zenoss’ Alan Conley: Doing the Dynamic Infrastructure Dance

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LinuxInsider

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June 18, 2013

A thin line between traditional IT monitoring and management services and monitoring real-time operations divides what Zenoss offers its customers and what other vendors provide. The IT monitoring space is becoming more crowded with proprietary and open source software solutions. Zenoss, according to Chief Technology Officer Alan Conley, offers a uniform platform that extends its reach. “We are categorized as being in the monitoring space, but I really see us as participating in the real-time operations,” Conley said.

AMD Bets ARM, Server Chip Experience Means Market Gains

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ZDNet

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June 18, 2013

AMD wants to be more than just an alternative to Intel. It wants to lead ARM’s gains in the data center as 2014 shapes up to be a pilot year for hyperscale servers.

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Distribution Release: SolydXK 201306

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DistroWatch

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June 18, 2013

Arjen Balfoort has announced the release of SolydXK 201306, an updated version of the project’s desktop Linux distribution with Xfce (SolydX) or KDE (SolydK) based on Debian’s “testing” branch: “The new SolydXK ISO images include the latest updates from June’s Update Pack. Changes: thanks to forum users the….

Open Source Initiative Seeks First Manager

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The H

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June 18, 2013

Reflecting the OSI’s transition to a membership-driven organisation, the group that defines open source and advocates its use is seeking a General Manager to help run the operation.

Red Hat Says No MariaDB/MySQL Decision Made

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The H

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June 18, 2013

Red Hat’s marketing denies the company has made a decision about which database will be default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, despite an apparent announcement at the company’s summit. The confusion may be down to possible packaging changes for RHEL 7.

Do We Underestimate the Real Challenge of Exascale?

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insideHPC

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June 18, 2013

Over at the ISC Blog, Mark Parsons from the EPCC supercomputing centre writes that scalable software is the real Grand Challenge of Exascale.

I believe that the problems that we’ve seen at the Petascale with regard to the scaling of many codes are insurmountable if we take the incremental change approach at the Exascale. Looking at the CRESTA codes, it is highly unlikely any of them will scale to the Exascale, even allowing for weak scaling (through increased resolution of the model under study) using incremental improvements. This means we need to think about disruptive changes to codes in order to meet the challenge.

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Nvidia’s Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains

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CNET

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June 18, 2013

The company’s graphics chips are finding a foothold in neural networks, a biology-inspired form of computing that is moving from research to commercial tasks like Google’s photo recognition. [Read more]

Distribution Release: Bridge Linux 2013.06

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DistroWatch

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June 18, 2013

Dalton Miller has announced the availability of Bridge Linux 2013.06, an Arch-based Linux distribution available in four separate flavours (with Xfce, GNOME, KDE and LXDE desktops) and now also featuring Pacaur, a simple and powerful package management wrapper for Arch Linux packages: “Announcing Bridge Linux 2013.06. This update….

LLVM 3.3 Officially Released

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Phoronix

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June 18, 2013

After a two week hiatus, LLVM 3.3 has been officially released!..