An Australian supercomputing consortium is poised to lease a Hewlett-Packard Itanium 2-based computing cluster to service a multi-year contract to assist car maker Holden in new vehicle design and ...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a Linux cluster around Raspberry Pi devices as part of an effort to help kids and adults learn about parallel computing. SDSC, part of the University of ...

The Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) is a group of 10 high-memory Linux servers, or "nodes," each of which has 1.5 - 2.0 TB of RAM. The latest generation of nodes (klc0304 - klc0307) each have 64 CPU cores ...

Western GeCo, the UK-based oil industry services giant recently formed from the merger of Schlumberger's Geco-Prakla and Baker Hughes' Western Geophysical, is to adopt a Linux-based supercomputer ...

The Rocks project was started at the San Diego Supercomputing Center in early 2000, with the goal of "making clusters easy". Rocks is a user-friendly software package that gives the user of a cluster ...

As the Linux cluster market grows, so should Panasas. Company founders Garth Gibson and Bill Courtwright set out in 2000 to meet the need for scalable Linux storage. The company launched its first ...

Linux Networx Inc. is building a high-performance, 2,132-CPU Linux cluster supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of an IT modernization program being undertaken by the agency. In an ...

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The Linux Foundation has formed a new working group to speed development within the Linux ecosystem that would make the operating system kernel more suitable for building high-availability (HA) ...