Linux Networx, a Linux cluster vendor, announced last week that The Eurocopter Group has installed one of its clusters at its German engineering location to allow them to more efficiently manipulate ...

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has installed a Linux cluster from Linux Networx Inc. as a pilot project to help it decide whether it should use the open-source ...

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 ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>At my work we are doing some fairly heavy structural FE analyses using ANSYS and LS-DYNA on the PC platform (WinXP). While some dual processor capabilities are present in these ...

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Drug maker Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has commissioned the construction of a 112-processor, 110-gigaflop Linux supercomputer cluster that will be used to accelerate drug research and development. In ...

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 ...

I have a 5 node linux (RedHat 7.2) cluster up and running. I have installed and configured LAM and MPICH, and they are working nicely. Next, I want to benchmark, but I'm having a hard time ...

Wholesale and retail VoIP service provider VoX Communications says it has deployed what it believes to be the first-ever VoIP application server cluster technology based on the Linux operating system.

Dell Inc. will build a high-performance computing cluster for the University of Texas at Austin that is just the latest in a recent string of Linux-powered clusters, Dell announced Friday. The Round ...