Along with Dell and Red Hat, the software maker says it has developed a version of its 9i database software that can run across multiple Linux servers. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In a bit of serendipity, reader [Tim Molter] had decided on the IKEA Helmer cabinet for his new cluster right before seeing the previous IKEA cluster we covered. He and his coding partner recently ...

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.

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 ...

Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux provides a well-balanced discussion that covers the basic design and construction of a Beowulf cluster, as well as how to manage and effectively use one. The ...

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 ...

Twice a year, a group of scientists in Europe and the United States release a list of the world's 500 most powerful computing systems. The Top 500 list is the most prestigious ranking of its kind, ...