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.

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Attendees at the BioIT World conference last week got a first look at a powerful new Linux clustering package for supercomputing environments. Scyld Software and its parent company Penguin Computing, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

I have a 5 node linux (RedHat 7.2) cluster up and running. I have installed and configured LAM and MPICH, and they are working nicely. Next, I want to benchmark, but I'm having a hard time ...

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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 ...