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Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior?
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 01:11PM EST views: 177

The Register: Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise. Others have a decent mix of business types and technology talents. Then there are start-ups like Secure64 Software Corp. that have nothing but the richest pedigree of pure, unadulterated genius running through their giddy veins.
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Objectivity Underscores Scalability At Intel-SGI PAC
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 01:03PM EST views: 188

Concurrent with the launch of the world's first Intel and SGI Parallel Application Center (PAC), Objectivity, a leader in high performance databases for real-time knowledge-based management solutions, announced Objectivity has concluded its "First Project" using the outstanding PAC resources. The project is the first step of a retest of a previous 32-bit UNIX benchmark, done this time on the 64-bit standards-based high-performance SGI Altix platform. This project demonstrates how the breakthrough technologies of Objectivity, Linux, Intel and SGI together meet the rapidly growing demand for managing very large and complex data.
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Microway To Provide AMD Opteron Cluster To UNH Institute
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 01:02PM EST views: 369

The Institute for the study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has announced the award of their supercomputing cluster for space, atmospheric, and Earth systems research to Microway, Inc. of Plymouth, Massachusetts. A leading manufacturer of custom- configured Linux Beowulf Clusters, Microway was selected because it offered the best designed and best priced solution for the university's specific needs. The supercomputing system will be used by EOS researchers to simulate processes in space plasmas, to model the spread of pollutants through New England's air and their influence on climate, and to model Earth's ecosystems.
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LBNL Forms Institute To Improve HPC Performance Analysis
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 01:01PM EST views: 207

In the field of high performance computing, "peak performance" has been defined as the speed at which the manufacturer guarantees that you can't compute faster than. Although peak performance figures make for good marketing, they don't provide much insight into actual performance
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NCSA Adds Dell Cluster to Private Sector Resources
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 12:59PM EST views: 178

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is installing a new computing resource for use by the industry leaders participating in NCSA's Private Sector Partner Program. The 512-node Dell cluster has been dubbed T2 because of its similarity to the center's 15-teraflop Tungsten cluster.
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Linux Server Adoption Broadens, Dual-Processor Systems Becoming Predominant Form-Factor
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 12:09PM EST views: 166

RedNOVA: End-user adoption of Linux servers for enterprise workloads, hosting ISV applications and databases, is on the rise, fueling a transition in the marketplace. The annual growth rate of Linux server unit shipments has been increasing over the past three years from 15% in 2Q01 to 40% in 2Q04. Given this rapid adoption, the mix of form-factors for these Linux servers has been changing over time, with the result that dual-processor systems are the predominant form-factor, followed by uniprocessors and four-processor systems. A new IDC Insight study provides data about this trend, and shows the market dynamics, by form-factor segment, within the Linux server market space.
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Fedora Core 3: A whole new level
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Monday December 06 2004 @ 10:38AM EST views: 590

NewsForge: Fedora Core 3 (FC3), released last month as the successor to Red Hat's consumer-grade product that was discontinued a year ago, takes Linux to a whole new level.
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Terra Soft Completes TI04 Services for Lockheed Martin, U.S. Navy
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Thursday December 02 2004 @ 05:30PM EST views: 207

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, has completed support for TI04, the most recent installation of the Lockheed Martin-integrated Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf Installation (ARCI) program for the U.S. Navy.
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Golden Eggs: Updated DL380 G4 3600MHz 2P EM64T System
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Wednesday December 01 2004 @ 08:05PM EST views: 204

Due to the high popularity of HP's ProLiant DL380 G4 EM64T server, I have added a second page in
the DL360G4 Golden Eggs information PDF document. The second page is intended to help
in selecting the suitable server.
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Scali Appoints Vice President of Finance and Administration
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Wednesday December 01 2004 @ 08:00PM EST views: 160

Scali, a leader in high performance clustering solutions, today announced the appointment of Andrew Sutherland as Vice President of Finance and Administration to focus on developing an
international infrastructure to encourage future revenue growth. Scali continues to take advantage of its expanding growth in the US enterprise
and high performance clustering markets, and Sutherland’s appointment highlights its focused and strategic approach in readying the organization to support the ongoing growth trend.
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Perl 5.8.6 released and available for download
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Tuesday November 30 2004 @ 11:51AM EST views: 202

"The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.8.6, the sixth maintenance release of Perl 5.8. It was uploaded to CPAN shortly before the current master site issues, and so hasn't been affected by this."
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Start Here to learn about Grid computing
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Monday November 29 2004 @ 12:52PM EST views: 117

Grid computing is an emerging technology, and different people will give you different definitions. The concept of Grid computing is simple: With Grid computing you can unite pools of servers, storage systems and networks into one large system to deliver non-trivial qualities of service. To an end user
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PolyServe Introduces High Availability Solution for Oracle Database Clusters on Linux
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Monday November 29 2004 @ 11:07AM EST views: 238

PolyServe, Inc., a leading
supplier of server and storage clustering software for the enterprise data
center, today announced the PolyServe Oracle High Availability (HA) Solution
for Linux. This is the first complete offering for reliable, simply managed
and cost-effective HA clusters of single-system Oracle 9i and 10g databases.
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