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- Red Hat HPC Solution: Linux Clusters Made Simple
- "Clusters made simple" is the best way to describe why the Red Hat HPC Solution is ideal for managing a Linux cluster. The Red Hat HPC Solution allows analysts, engineers, and scientists from organizations of any size to deploy the power of HPC with an out-of-the-box, pre-integrated, vendor-certified software solution....
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Nswap: A Network Swapping Module for Linux Clusters
- Cluster applications that process large amounts of data, such as parallel scientific or multimedia applications, are likely to cause swapping on individual cluster nodes. These applications will perform better on clusters with network swapping support. Network swapping allows any cluster node with over-committed memory to use idle memory of a...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Simulations of Flows Around Vehicles With Linux Clusters
- Time-dependent simulations of flows around vehicles require computations on large number of processors during long time. Such simulations are made possible with introduction of cost-efficient Linux clusters. The paper presents a review of the work in this field from the pioneering simulations on expensive sheared memory parallel computers to computations...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The MOSIX2 Management System for Linux Clusters and Organizational Grids
- MOSIX Version 2 (MOSIX2) for Linux-2.6 is a management system for clusters and organizational grids. Its main feature is to make all the participating nodes perform like a single computer with multiple processors, almost like an SMP. In a MOSIX system, users can run applications by creating multiple processes, then...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Techniques to Build a Diskless Boot Linux Cluster of JS21 Blades
- Blades are becoming an increasingly popular method for companies to use to build up their infrastructure at a low cost. Blades provide a large computing powerhouse in an extremely small, condensed footprint. Using Linux as the operating system of choice and booting "Diskless" provides for even lower cost of ownership,...
- White papers 2006-12-12
- Army adopts Linux clusters to double computing capacity
- With the purchase of four Linux clusters from Networx, the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center MSRC in Aberdeen, Md., is doubling its computing power from 36 to 80 trillion floating-point operations per second, reports LinuxInsider. Center director Charles J. Nietubicz said the center has...
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
- Linux Clusters White Paper
- Clustered computing has been around for several years. Clusters have been devised, formally or informally, from many types of systems. On one extreme, the IBM eServer zSeries, when configured in a Sysplex, represents a cluster. At the other end of the power spectrum, many organizations have assembled Intel and other...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Running a Traffic Model on a Linux Cluster: Using MATLAB's Distributed Computing Toolbox
- Distributed computing has become an accepted technology to reduce the time needed to perform large computations. The MathWorks has anticipated this development by introducing the Distributed Computing Toolbox for MATLAB. This toolbox allows MATLAB users to run their applications on clusters of PC's, thus obtaining results quicker than on a...
- White papers 2005-10-27
- Cheap and Easy Parallelism for Matlab on Linux Clusters
- Matlab is the most popular platform for rapid prototyping and development of scientific and engineering applications. A typical university computing lab will have Matlab installed on a set of networked Linux workstations. With the growing availability of distributed computing networks, many third-party software libraries have been developed to support parallel...
- White papers 2005-09-16
- Oracle 10g on Linux Cluster
- High Availability HA is in high demand nowadays. Corporations lose thousands if not millions of dollars every time there is an outage of their IT systems. This white paper will cover the basic steps for creating a Linux Cluster. Specifically, it will cover installing Oracle 10g on a Linux Cluster...
- White papers 2005-07-07
- Breaking New Ground: The Evolution of Linux Clustering
- Linux High Performance Computing HPC clusters are an example of innovation achieved through novel ways of thinking about proven technology. This combination allows both exceptional performance and superior reliability. Clusters, derived from the pioneering Beowulf concept, provide a cost-effective alternative to proprietary supercomputers and Symmetric MultiProcessing SMP systems. Scyld Software...
- White papers 2005-02-11
- Linux cluster firms attract new funding
- Linux cluster firms attract new fundingHow About A Microsoft Cluster?I'm sure that a group of 100 computers clustered together running Windows XP Professional or 2003 would be the pinnacle of the IT world and set a shining example for stability, reliability, and security.Then again, I'm high on crack right now...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-05
- 20TB on a Linux Cluster Today: How to Build a Multiterabyte Data Warehouse, Using Linux and RAC
- This paper will help guide system engineers to create reliable and performant Linux RAC systems for a data warehouse applications. The paper is organized in three sections. The first sections supplies guidelines setting up hardware. Starting with a simple model on how to determine throughput requirements it continues with guidelines...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- TIPC: Providing Communication for Linux Clusters
- Transparent Inter Process Communication TIPC is a protocol specially designed for efficient intra cluster communication, leveraging the particular conditions present within clusters of loosely coupled nodes. TIPC provides a powerful infrastructure for designing distributed, site-independent, scalable, highly-available and high-performing applications, as well as a good support for cluster, network and...
- White papers 2004-07-24
- IBM to preview DB2 Linux clustering
- 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 version of DB2, code-named Stinger, will include closer integration with Microsoft's .Net line of development tools...
- News items 2004-01-13
- Clustered Linux: supercomputing on the cheap
- When a bioscience software company wanted a supercomputer system, the seven-figure price of mainframe clustering turned them toward the Linux platform, which cost considerably less to deploy. When Jehangir Athwal and his colleagues wanted a system to do the heavy lifting at their bioscience software company, they were interested...
- News items 2002-11-06
- Supercomputer to get Linux cluster tool
- Software developer Linux NetworX will team with SGI and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop a tool for storing data on 'clusters' of Linux computers. SAN FRANCISCO--Linux NetworX, a company that focuses on joining collections of Linux computers into a supercomputer, will collaborate with SGI and Lawrence...
- News items 2001-08-28
- Introduction to Linux Cluster Filesystems
- Traditionally, a cluster is simply a group of servers, either PCs or workstations, acting as a single system. That definition is stretching considerably, however; cluster technology is now a dynamic field with diverse applications that is continually absorbing new features. Furthermore, cluster filesystem technologies, whether open source or proprietary, are...
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- Performance Considerations for Network Switch Fabrics on Linux Clusters
- In this paper the authors investigate the necessity of a high speed interconnect for Linux based clusters and the performance differences between Myrinet and Ethernet connected networks. The authors benchmark applications and network performance in a dedicated environment with varying workloads and processing elements. The authors show that for certain...
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- Full Circle: Simulating Linux Clusters on Linux Clusters
- BGLsim is a complete system simulator for parallel machines. It is currently being used in hardware validation and software development for the BlueGene/L cellular architecture machine. BGLsim is capable of functionally simulating multiple nodes of this machine operating in parallel. It simulates instruction execution in each node and the communication...
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