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 ...

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 ...

The servers are grouped so they share workloads and ensure computing is completed if a single server crashes. Will Big Blue find the concept notoriously tricky as others have? Stephen Shankland worked ...

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.

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 ...

IBM is expected to demonstrate some of the Linux clustering capabilities it is building into its DB2 database at the LinuxWorld conference in New York next week. The new features in the forthcoming ...

Linux Networx, a Linux cluster vendor, announced last week that The Eurocopter Group has installed one of its clusters at its German engineering location to allow them to more efficiently manipulate ...

SO I have a BUNCH of older machines laying around that I probably couldn't get anything for. I was thinking this would be a good time to learn linux clustering. Question is what do I do with a cluster ...

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