A wave of linux clustered machines has been anticipated since 1994, when the Goddard Space Flight Center produced the first Beowulf cluster. But only recently have the tools become available for the ...

The company has selected SteelEye Technology's software to help its high-end Linux servers catch up to those running Microsoft Windows, the company is set to announce Wednesday. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle on Wednesday boosted its support for the Linux operating system with a new version of its database software. The software maker said that it has developed a version of its 9i database software ...

Software clustering technologies have been evolving for the past few years and are currently gaining a lot of momentum for several reasons. These reasons include the benefits of deploying commodity, ...

Along with Dell and Red Hat, the software maker says it has developed a version of its 9i database software that can run across multiple Linux servers. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...

* MIT scientist uses Linux cluster as a microscope 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 ...

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 ...

The product news from the LinuxWorld show this week in Boston is trending towards cluster technology, as several vendors are expected to reveal new wares that harness the power of multiple Linux-based ...

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 term "cluster" is actually not very well defined and could mean different things to different people. According to Webopedia, cluster refers to a group of disk sectors. Most Windows users are ...