Supercomputing specialist SGI has become Microsoft's latest partner, signing up to support a version of Windows that can farm out computing jobs to a cluster of lower-end servers.
IBM will soon give supercomputing aficionados a glimpse of an Opteron chip-based system that is geared for high-performance tasks.
Low cost is always cited as the top reason that enterprises choose Linux clusters. But the promise of new, advanced management tools and scalability capabilities is also spurring increased interest and attention
A US lab is buying a US$6 million, 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons simulation software, an effort that will test the limits of these less expensive megamachines.
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Low cost is always cited as the top reason that enterprises choose Linux clusters. But the promise of new, advanced management tools and scalability capabilities is also spurring increased interest and attention
With a growing interest in the productivity benefits, clustering is on the agenda for a number of CIOs and IT managers. ZDNet Australia takes a look at the issues.
Linux distributor MandrakeSoft announced the release of a version of the open-source operating system that it says is optimised for creating low-budget supercomputers.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
While Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop and well represented in the server racks, until recently it has been nearly absent from the world's largest supercomputers.
Intel has come out with a Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHz and separately has plans to discuss a new version of its upcoming Madison chip specially enhanced for dual-processor servers and workstations.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
A Linux cluster coming to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory later this year will be the most powerful Linux or Intel-based supercomputer ever built.
Much of the contemporary supercomputer world is focused on machines made up of a network of smaller computers, but NEC is going retro with its new model, the SX-7.
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