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IBM supercomputer will run AIX, not Linux
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Tuesday July 27 2004 @ 09:34PM EDT views: 171
Gaurdian Unlimited: "IBM said Monday it had been selected to build a supercomputer for the US Department of Defense that would be used by the military for war simulation, weather forecasting and other applications. The computer will be deployed at the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center in Mississippi, IBM said," reports Reuters.
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TYAN's launches the Transport GS12, a highly-flexible sub-1U rackmount server
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Wednesday July 21 2004 @ 06:23PM EDT views: 361
FREMONT, CA, July 21st, 2004 - Bringing new definition to the compact server market, Tyan®, a global provider of award-winning server and workstation platforms, today launched the Transport GS12 (B5103G12), a highly-flexible sub-1U rackmount server that fits most any application required by customers. Using the high-performance abilities of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with an 800/533MHz Front Side Bus, possible segments that could use the Transport GS12 (B5103G12) include those who require firewall servers, gateways and routers, print serving and data serving solutions, file storage and delivery boxes, email serving, and much more.
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64-bit Applications Infrastructure Continues to Build
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Wednesday July 21 2004 @ 06:19PM EDT views: 431
This is significant because of the support this release gives to the 64-bit movement that is taking place as the application infrastructure continues to build. The Portland Group has been collaborating with commercial science and engineering application vendors, the authors of several key open-source technical applications, and AMD throughout early 2004 as part of an ongoing effort to build the infrastructure of high-performance 64-bit applications available for AMD64 processor-based systems.
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HP memo forecasts MS patent attacks on free software
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Wednesday July 21 2004 @ 06:11PM EDT views: 159
NewsForge: A two-year old memo from HP executive Gary Campbell to other HP execs has been wending its way around the backrooms of the Internet this past weekend. One of the places it showed up was in the NewsForge submission bin. We held off publishing the memo until we verified its authenticity and gave HP a chance to respond.
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MySQL Dials +99.999 For Availability
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Sunday July 18 2004 @ 11:57PM EDT views: 265
Open Magazine: MySQL AB is trying out a 'five-nines' database pitch featuring its new MySQL Cluster. After all, how long can you afford to be down?
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Petrobras turns to Linux, Grid and IBM Bladecenter to Speed Oil Exploration
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Friday July 16 2004 @ 02:14PM EDT views: 321
São Paulo, 16 July 2004. - Petrobras, Brazil's largest company and one of
the largest oil companies in the world, has chosen a Linux-based Grid
comprised of IBM eServer BladeCenter systems to speed deep-sea oil
exploration in the state of Espirito Santo. This is the largest cluster of
Blade Servers implemented by IBM Brazil and one of the largest in Latin
America
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Watch out the world's biggest Linux supercomputer
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Friday July 16 2004 @ 09:44AM EDT views: 273
TechWorld: Silicon Graphics is building the biggest ever Linux supercomputer. The Altix computer has been ordered by the US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and will run a single Linux operating system image across 1,024 Intel Itanium 2 processors with 3TB of shared memory, and deliver six trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS).
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Scientific Computing Associates announces the availability of TCP Linda
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Thursday July 15 2004 @ 03:17PM EDT views: 300
New Haven, Connecticut, July 15, 2004 – Scientific Computing Associates, Inc., (SCIENTIFIC) a pioneer in the development of software for high performance parallel and distributed computing for more than twenty-four years, announces the availability of a new version of its flagship product, TCP LindaÒ, for IBM’s Departmental Supercomputing Solutions. Benchmarks demonstrate excellent performance and scalability. A fully functional four processor TCP Linda system is being made available by download at no charge from SCIENTIFIC with every Supercomputing Solution bundle.
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NCSA to Expand its High-Performance Computing EnvironmentCenter Purchases 1,024 SGI Altix System
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Wednesday July 14 2004 @ 02:27PM EDT views: 172
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (July 14, 2004)—Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) today has purchased through James River Technical, an SGI channel partner, a Silicon Graphics shared-memory, Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) computing system, and storage technology. The SGI® Altix® system, to be named Cobalt, will consist of 1,024 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running the Linux® operating system, 3 terabytes of globally accessible memory, and 370 terabytes of SGI® InfiniteStorage that will serve as the Center's shared file system, accessible by other high-performance computing resources within NCSA.
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Progeny Debian 2.0 Beta 1
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Wednesday July 14 2004 @ 08:42AM EDT views: 307
The beta release of Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition is now available. "This version of Progeny Debian was built using the new Anaconda for Debian, based on Anaconda from Fedora Core 2, and contains many updates to components from Debian's current testing distribution ("sarge")."
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Supercomputing center adds more power
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Wednesday July 14 2004 @ 07:41AM EDT views: 162
cnet.com: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, one of the larger buyers of supercomputers, said Tuesday that it has purchased an SGI supercomputer called Cobalt that will contain 1,024 Itanium 2 processors, three terabytes of memory and 370 terabytes of disk storage when completely operational.
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IBM Changes Economics of UNIX Computing
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Tuesday July 13 2004 @ 02:12PM EDT views: 618
IBM Changes Economics of UNIX Computing
POWER5 Systems Deliver up to Triple the Performance of HP and Sun,
Breakthrough Micro-Partitioning Technology Lets Each Processor Do the Work
of Many
ARMONK, N.Y.--July 13, 2004--IBM today changed forever UNIXR computing with
the introduction of new eServer(TM)
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Fedora Core 2.90 Test 1 Release
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Tuesday July 13 2004 @ 01:09PM EDT views: 373
The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, and following a set of project objectives. The results from this project include Fedora Core, a complete, general-purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software.
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