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The biggest open source threat to Microsoft

The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Storage management, Linux, Dana, open source, Face it Linux, Microsoft Windows, operating system, virtualization, HPCC, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

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Need to crunch some energy vs. performance numbers? SiCortex updates index

SiCortex, which is trying to drum up industry backing for its Green Computing Performance Index, has updated the suite of benchmarks to focus more squarely on performance vis-a-vis energy consumed. It measures performance-per-wat using the HPCC benchmark suite and is meant specifically for pretty high-end systems (like the ones you'd...

Tags: Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Research Facility Gains Best Price for Performance With New Powerful Infrastructure

Situated within the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, WBIC uses Positron Emission Tomography PET and Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI scans to study changes in brain function after injury. Expanding research programmes at the facility was increasing data by two terabytes each month. To speed up the processing of...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2007-07-18

High-Performance SAN Connections for HPCC Systems

The HPCC High Performance Computing Clusters computing market is expected to exceed $14B by 2010. It is a market that is growing rapidly and driving significant change in how storage and computing work together. The HPCC market started in the scientific and super computing space and is now moving into...

Tags: Supercomputer, QLogic Corp., High-performance, Computing, Leadership, Management

White papers 2006-10-01

High Performance SAN Connection for HPCC Systems

This paper outlines a new model for storage to meet the needs of HPCC systems. This new model leverages the same low-cost hardware, but uses a new file system CFS Cluster File Systems, or GFS Global File Systems, standard Ethernet running iSCSI vs. NAS, and existing Fibre Channel SANs to...

Tags: File System, QLogic Corp., High-performance, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Ethernet, Ip storage, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Networking

White papers 2006-10-01

A roundtrip to Mars in one day?

According to ideas developed in the 1950s, it should be possible to build an 'hyperspace' engine allowing a spacecraft to reach Mars in 3 hours. It would also allow us to travel to stars more that 10 light years away in 80 days by slipping into a different dimension. But...

Tags: theory, magnetic field

Blog posts 2006-01-09

IIT Kanpur Sets Up Mission Critical, High Performance Computing Powerhouse on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Indian Institute of Technology IIT, Kanpur is one of the premier institutions established by the Government of India. The institute wanted to modernize and scale proprietary, SMP-UNIX infrastructure and setup a high performance computing environment that can handle cutting edge research projects. The institute also wanted to simplify management and...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Institute, IIT Kanpur, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

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