 |
|
Paracel Cyclone Cluster Giveaway!
The cluster will include two AMD Opteron(TM) based nodes, each with 2 GB memory and 60 GB hard drive, and SuSE Enterprise Edition 8 operating system. This cluster will be granted to an educational, government or commercial organization or research project in the US. Enter to win...
|
Gelato Federation Keeps Growing!
The Gelato Federation continues to draw prestigious universities, national laboratories and research units into the Linux-on-Itanium community. Read more...
|
Linux on Itanium2
|
| Computerworld: Linux: Not Ready for the Data Center |
|
Posted by Kenneth Farmer (Monday January 06 2003 @ 07:54AM EST) [ ]
|
The virtues of Linux are well known: It's free, open source and pretty cool, especially if it's running in a bunch of high-volume locations, like a chain of retail stores. Issues of support and reliability have been addressed to some degree as well. For example, over the summer, Oracle ported its database engine and apps to Red Hat's Linux distribution and announced that it would offer enterprise-level operating system support, thus joining Veritas, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell on the Linux bandwagon. Even Linux's performance is starting to look good.
But despite these advances, it's still unclear whether going with Linux (your CFO's interest in anything free notwithstanding) can save you money inside the data center.
Brian Richardson, program director at Meta Group, says that while Linux has moved from "bleeding-edge" to "early-adopter" status, multiprocessor CPU deployments are rare.
Full story...
|
|
|
|
Upcoming Workshops:
|
December 8-12 Experience the Performance of AMD Opteron Technology, Center for HPC/UNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico
More info...
|
Powered by:
|
|
spyderbyte.com:
