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Linux Cluster RFQ Form
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LinuxHPC.org is Looking for Interns - If you have experience with Linux clusters and/or cluster applications and you're interested in helping out with LinuxHPC.org let me know. I can promise the experience will be rewarding and educational, plus it'll make good resume fodder. You'll work with vendors and cluster users from around the world. We're also looking for writers and people to do hardware/software reviews. Contact Ken Farmer.
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Where does all the time go when performing calculations in a grid?
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Wednesday November 17 2004 @ 12:43PM EST views: 191
In any grid computing environment, you have data nodes, and you have computation nodes. Performance is important, so is it better to send the executables to the data? Or send the data to the executables? Or both? The questions are even more important when your grid is distributed across a number of geographically dispersed sites.
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Securing Linux, Part 2: Planning the Installation
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Tuesday November 16 2004 @ 03:37PM EST views: 211
Only the paranoid survive, and that is no less true when securing Linux systems as any other. Fortunately, a host of security features are built into the kernel, are packaged with one of the many Linux distributions, or are available separately as open source applications.
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SteelEye Technology Releases LifeKeeper for Linux v4.6
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Tuesday November 16 2004 @ 02:26PM EST views: 292
SteelEye Technology® Inc., the leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for Linux and Windows, today announced the release of LifeKeeper™ for Linux version 4.6. LifeKeeper provides data replication and high availability for enterprise applications in Linux and Windows environments. This new version supports an increased number of Linux distributions and kernels in the widest range of configuration options available in the Linux market today - protecting open source adopters' freedom of choice.
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SCALE 3x Opens For Registration
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Tuesday November 16 2004 @ 02:30AM EST views: 154
SCALE 3X is open for business! The Expo is now accepting early registrations. A full pass (expo floor and seminars is $50 until January 1, 2005, and $65 thereafter, a student pass is $25 until January 1, 2005, and $32.50 thereafter, and an expo-floor-only pass is $10.
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HP Selects PolyServe Matrix Server as ProLiant Storage Cluster Solution for Linux
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Monday November 15 2004 @ 11:19AM EST views: 252
PolyServe, Inc. today announced
the availability of PolyServe Matrix Server(TM) software as a complementary
storage cluster offering to HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio announced at the
SC2004 Supercomputing Conference in Pittsburgh, Penn. The new HP Scalable
Storage Cluster, powered by PolyServe Matrix Server, is a fully integrated
server, storage and software solution for cost-effective, high-performance,
network-based file services in high performance computing (HPC) applications.
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Emulating legacy operating systems on Linux
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Monday November 15 2004 @ 08:45AM EST views: 184
From CP/M to OpenVMS, one of the best things to do with a Linux box is to run programs for other operating systems on it. It can simplify your life considerably. Emulations of a wide variety of operating systems are available for Linux.
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Analytics Acceleration Grid Environment, Part 2
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Saturday November 13 2004 @ 04:39AM EST views: 170
This article explains how the Analytics Acceleration Grid Environment (AAGE) infrastructure components relate and work together to build and deliver a virtual system environment that supports a wide range
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OptimalGrid -- Autonomic Computing on the Grid
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Thursday November 11 2004 @ 04:19PM EST views: 201
OptimalGrid is middleware that aims to simplify creating and managing large-scale, connected, parallel grid applications. It optimizes performance and includes autonomic grid functionality. You don't need to be a grid infrastructure expert to use it. You supply the code that represents your basic problem algorithm, and OptimalGrid manages everything else. Get the free OptimalGrid download, then use this tutorial to learn how to use it.
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Building an XBOX Linux Cluster
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Thursday November 11 2004 @ 09:00AM EST views: 495
AnandTech: A few weeks ago, we started investigating the possibility of putting Linux on an XBOX. We played with some ideas in our heads, a render farm, a cheap office computer or a distributed crypto platform, just to start. The idea required a little bit of elbow grease, a mod chip, Linux and a bunch of free time.
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Verari Systems Software Powers NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s New Cluster
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Wednesday November 10 2004 @ 12:58PM EST views: 336
Verari Systems Software Powers NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s New Cluster
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- November 10, 2004 -- Verari Systems Software, the leading independent provider of high-performance middleware products and related services for parallel and cluster computers, announced that it has deployed
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Scalable Rocks Comes To The U.S., Launches v1.1
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Wednesday November 10 2004 @ 11:51AM EST views: 353
Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 10th November 2004 -- McIntire Computing Group, a High Performance Computing (HPC) consulting firm based in the United States, has partnered with Singapore based Scalable Systems to launch Scalable Rocks v1.1 in the United States and Canada. Scalable Rocks v1.1, which supports EM64T, Opteron, Itanium and Pentium/Athlon (x86), has been chosen to power Iowa State University’s Rocks cluster, which is being used to solve large scale problems in computational genomics and electromagnetics.
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PVFS2 - High-Performance Parallel File System
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Wednesday November 10 2004 @ 08:00AM EST views: 266
Parallel I/O continues to be a topic of active development. Recent years have seen the creation of many new options. Even with these new choices, certain factors remain constant. Parallel applications need a fast I/O subsystem. Clusters need a parallel file system that can scale as the number of nodes increases to the thousands and tens of thousands. PVFS2 is our answer.
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Scali MPI Connect provides IBM customers increased cross-platform
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Wednesday November 10 2004 @ 07:55AM EST views: 223
Supercomputing 2004, Pittsburgh, November 9 - Scali, a leader in
high-performance clustering solutions, today announced that it is extending
Scali MPI Connect™, its message passing interface software, to run on the
full range of IBM eServer POWER processor based systems. Scali’s
interconnect-independent software is currently compatible with IBM’s Intel
and AMD processor-based cluster nodes and will now expand to include IBM
OpenPower™, BladeCenter™ and pSeries® Linux-based servers.
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Absoft Announces New Cluster Builder’s Kit version 2.0
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Tuesday November 09 2004 @ 05:53PM EST views: 201
Absoft Corporation has announced a new Cluster Builder’s Kit version 2.0 which replaces its Beowulf
Tool Kit v1.0. The Cluster Builder’s Kit (CBK) is used in conjunction with Absoft high performance
compilers and debugging solutions and is designed to facilitate building and setting up cluster systems.
Customers who purchase Absoft compilers for clusters receive the CBK at no additional charge. The
software products included with the Cluster Builder’s Kit CD are the leading open source software packages
commonly used in today’s cluster configurations. Absoft supplies source code, pre-built libraries and
executables optimized for Absoft compilers as a service to customers.
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Verari Systems and Cluster File Systems Partner to Deliver Shared File Systems for Blades
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Tuesday November 09 2004 @ 04:25PM EST views: 261
Verari Systems, the premier developer of powerful, platform-independent blade server systems, and Cluster File Systems, the designers and developers of the Lustre file system, have announced today that they have partnered to deliver breakthrough price/performance capabilities in a shared file system for customers worldwide. Through this joint development, deployment and marketing relationship, Verari Systems and CFS have developed optimized architectures for Lustre using the Verari Systems BladeRack family of blade servers and the VS family of Fibre Channel attached storage systems.
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