The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...

On Tuesday, Linux hardware company Penguin Computing announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, maker of the Linux-based Beowulf clustering software. Terms of the deal were not ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

High-end linux clustering comes of age this week with the launch of 32- and 64-bit platforms at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Although the promise of industrial-strength Linux clustering has been a ...

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

Without availability software, users must enable Linux’s CRM and resources like Corosync and Domain Name Systems for uniformity of experience of each node in the cluster. This process is more ...

Good catch by The VAR Guy in highlighting a new marketing campaign from Red Hat: With Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, you don't need expensive add-on software from Veritas to enjoy the ...

When Jehangir Athwal and his colleagues wanted a system to do the heavy lifting at their bioscience software company, they were interested in a supercomputer system. But sticker price shock turned the ...