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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with clustering pioneer Donald Becker, who started the Beowful project, and is now the CTO of Penguin Computing. I asked him a few questions about the ...

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Veritas Software Corp. last week announced a set of applications aimed at letting storage administrators cluster their Linux servers and create Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) systems. The ...

The latest version of PathScale's compiler suite includes support for AMD's 64-bit architecture, Intel's Extended Memory 64 Technology and performance improvements, the company said on Tuesday.

Oracle is breaking out the Linux clustering component of its Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) package and offering it to customers of its Unbreakable Linux support program for Linux users.

Linux clustering start-up Terascala is generating interest among investors, as the Massachusetts-based company recently received a $3 million in first-round venture capital funding. Terascala is ...

Special considerations are involved when completing the implementation of a cluster. Even with the queue system and parallel environment, extra services are required for a cluster to function as a ...