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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, uses several multiprocessor Linux clusters he put together. But he says he spends enough of his hours ...

Ten years ago, clustering meant one thing—grouping a small number of large servers together with shared disks to host on-line transaction processing applications with better availability and, in some ...

IBM today announced an extension of its products to help manage large server farms from a single workstation Code-named Blue Hammer, IBM's eServer clusters are in the works for Unix and Linux. The ...

In an LVS setup, the real servers may be interconnected by a high-speed LAN or by geographically dispersed WAN. On the other hand, the front end of the real servers, called director, is a load ...

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