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 ...

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 ...

Between last week’s BioIT World conference in Boston, and the ClusterWorld conference in San Francisco this week, there should be enough announcements for users interested in Linux-based high ...

As the Linux cluster market grows, so should Panasas. Company founders Garth Gibson and Bill Courtwright set out in 2000 to meet the need for scalable Linux storage. The company launched its first ...

Reflecting the growing popularity of Linux clusters for high-performance technical computing, two companies have secured new investments in the tens of millions of dollars. San Francisco-based Penguin ...

The servers are grouped so they share workloads and ensure computing is completed if a single server crashes. Will Big Blue find the concept notoriously tricky as others have? Stephen Shankland worked ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with clustering pioneer Donald Becker, who started the Beowful project, and is now the CTO of Penguin Computing. I asked him a few questions about 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.

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Linux clustering software vendor Linux NetworX Inc. are joining their efforts to offer powerful HP server clusters linked together with specialized management applications. In ...