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 ...

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.

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When mission-critical applications fail, so does your business. This often is a true statement in today's environments, where most organizations spend millions of dollars making their services ...

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 ...