A wave of linux clustered machines has been anticipated since 1994, when the Goddard Space Flight Center produced the first Beowulf cluster. But only recently have the tools become available for the ...

The company has selected SteelEye Technology's software to help its high-end Linux servers catch up to those running Microsoft Windows, the company is set to announce Wednesday. Stephen Shankland ...

On Tuesday, Linux hardware company Penguin Computing announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, maker of the Linux-based Beowulf clustering software. Terms of the deal were not ...

High performance computing has taken great leaps in the past few months. Through the use of commodity hardware and Linux, companies can now create their own supercomputer in weeks. The Linux cluster ...

Among the Linux announcements are new HP OpenView Smart Plug-Ins for MySQL database and Jboss and Tomcat application servers. HP also plans to announce a new release of its high availability ...

Linux clustering start-up Terascala is generating interest among investors, as the Massachusetts-based company recently received a $3 million in first-round venture capital funding. Terascala is ...

Oracle on Wednesday boosted its support for the Linux operating system with a new version of its database software. The software maker said that it has developed a version of its 9i database software ...

The saying goes, “You can’t eat your cake and have it too”, well Forbes says you can. “Hybrid Windows and Linux clusters increase the number of addressable users and improve cluster efficiency,” said ...

* MIT scientist uses Linux cluster as a microscope How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his ...

High-end linux clustering comes of age this week with the launch of 32- and 64-bit platforms at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Although the promise of industrial-strength Linux clustering has been a ...

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

So, your organization has finally decided to double the number of Linux workstations in your cluster. Now you've got twice as much computer power as before, right? Wrong. It's not that simple. Old ...