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 ...

Ratnangi Nirek, a seasoned technical professional focused on Linux-on-Azure reliability. Nirek oversees complex deliverables ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2003--Metapa Inc., a leading provider of high-performance analytics infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired Didera Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia, a ...

IBM is expected to demonstrate some of the Linux clustering capabilities it is building into its DB2 database at the LinuxWorld conference in New York next week. The new features in the forthcoming ...