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 ...

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 ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>At my work we are doing some fairly heavy structural FE analyses using ANSYS and LS-DYNA on the PC platform (WinXP). While some dual processor capabilities are present in these ...

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 post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Despite the current brouhaha over Linux that IBM finds ...

Veritas Software Corp. last week announced a set of applications aimed at letting storage administrators cluster their Linux servers and create Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) systems. The ...

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.

When Jehangir Athwal and his colleagues wanted a system to do the heavy lifting at their bioscience software company, they were interested in a supercomputer system. But sticker price shock turned the ...

Although Windows and Linux were traditionally viewed as competitors, modern IT advancements have ensured much needed network availability between these ecosystems for redundancy, fault tolerance, and ...