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.

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 ...

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

Linux will soon be able to offer clustering capabilities based on decades-old Vax technology, Redhat announced last week. Linux will soon be able to offer clustering capabilities based on decades-old ...

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 ...

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.

Lineo, an embedded and high-availability Linux start-up, on Wednesday shipped its Availix Horizontal Clustering 1.3, adding to the list of vendors able to ship a system for clustering Linux servers.

Even beyond the other commercial Linux clustering products Kuppa has tried, Scyld’s Beowulf product was the easiest to install and configure, he says. Instead of having to install the Scyld CD on each ...

Oracle is breaking out the Linux clustering component of its Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) package and offering it to customers of its Unbreakable Linux support program for Linux users.

The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

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7 January 2003 Hardware vendor Silicon Graphics (SGI) claims to have developed clustering technology that will enable it to build Linux supercomputers that can rival the fastest Unix-based machines ...