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LINUX NETWORX
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ANSYS
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Linux Clusters Continue to Expand in Top 500 Supers Ranking
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The number of parallel supercomputing clusters and the aggregate performance of these machines both continued their expansion in the latest Top 500 supercomputer rankings. The Top 500 list was announced at the SuperComputing 2005 tradeshow in Seattle, which is not exactly a coincidence. Microsoft, having seen Linux take off as the core platform on cluster supercomputers in the past five years, will debut its own Windows HPC variant at SC2005 this week. The question now is: Can Windows storm the Linux stronghold? READ MORE >
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SGI Previews Next-Generation, Blade-Style Altix Supers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
With the SuperComputing 2005 tradeshow raging in Seattle this week, a lot of the major players in the high performance computing market are making announcements, and Silicon Graphics, which has come under pressure to shore up its revenues in recent quarters, is hoping that a new line of blade-style supercomputers code-named "Tollhouse," due early next year, will help give it the sales bump it needs to turn the company around. READ MORE >
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ARKEIA
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LINUX BACKUP SOLUTIONS
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Sponsored By
CALIFORNIA DIGITAL
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Expertise in Deploying Massively
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Linux Networx Chases HPC Users with Supersystems
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The commercialization of Linux started at two different, but related, ends of the computer business--at the low end in the Web server farm and at the high-end in high-performance supercomputer clusters. In both cases, Linux was deployed because it was essentially free, tweakable, and ran on cheap--even old--X86 iron. While customers don't expect much more of a Web server than they did seven years ago, this is certainly not true of HPC clusters running Linux. Customer may choose Linux clusters for their supercomputers, but they expect a level of integration and management tools akin to those found on SMP systems. In short, they want tailored hardware and software, not raw commodities. READ MORE >
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CA Spins Out Open Source Ingres Database
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
A year ago, after a massive management shakeup that saw the ouster of the top executives of the company, Computer Associates decided to take its Ingres relational database to an open source development and licensing model. The initial story back then was somewhat skeptical, because the database market had changed so much in the decade that CA had control of Ingres and it got lost in the noise about DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL database. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
OPENLOGIC
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OpenLogic
Solving the Open Source Dilemma
Open source tools are constantly evolving, but their strengths can cause your headaches. Unpredictable updates and ongoing maintenance can turn productive developers into frustrated system administrators and consume untold hours. OpenLogic can help.
Our flagship product, BlueGlue, enables you to install, integrate, test, manage, and learn over 120 open source projects in minutes.
Take a guided tour and get the free demo at www.openlogic.com
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But Wait, There's More
OSDL's Patent Commons Ready for Grazing . . . Vendors Establish Open Invention Network to Acquire Patents . . . SUSE Co-Founder and Kernel Maintainer Quits Novell . . . Mandriva Hosts Global Install Party for 2006 Edition . . . Zend Studio 5 Ships with Commercial PHP 5 . . . Gupta, Wind River Chairman, Joins Red Hat Board . . . Aberdeen Report Pegs Growth in Midmarket ERP . . . READ MORE >
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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Kevin Vandever,
Shannon O'Donnell, Victor Rozek, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
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