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Linux Clusters White Paper
White Papers High-availability solutions for Linux clusters are now available from several Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and span a range of capability and complexity. Clusters have been devised, formally or informally, from many types of systems.
[November 26, 2007, 1:52]
Linux Clusters Scale Better And Cost Less
News Financial institutions are also using Linux clusters as small as eight nodes to run complex portfolio simulations and risk analysis, according to hardware and software vendors that include Dell and Sistina (a provider of file system and volume...
[November 4, 2002, 11:43]
Linux Clusters Head To The Datacentre
News He also commented on the improved efficiencies of using clusters: "The old approach to reliability was to have a mainframe running your application, and if anything went wrong, you would switch over to another identical mainframe which is...
[April 3, 2003, 9:48]
HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share, Based On Lustre Technology: High-Bandwidth, Scalable Storage For Linux Clusters
White Papers HP SFS is recommended for Linux clusters running applications that require fast I/O across dozens to thousands of distributed compute nodes. HP SFS scales with agility, is simple to use, and maximizes the value of powerful Linux clusters.
[January 10, 2005, 2:00]
Big Blue Picks Linux For Clusters
News IBM has begun selling Linux servers grouped into "clusters", which share workloads and ensure computing is completed even if a single server crashes. IBM is selling Linux clusters based on software from Steeleye Technology, Mission Critical Linux...
[November 14, 2001, 12:07]
Comparing Linux Clusters For The Community Climate System Model
White Papers Specifically, the authors examine the execution time and scalability of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) and the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) on Linux clusters with Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors, using Dolphin, Myrinet, and Infiniband...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
The MOSIX2 Management System For Linux Clusters And Organizational Grids
White Papers MOSIX Version 2 (MOSIX2) for Linux-2.6 is a management system for clusters and organizational grids. MOSIX is implemented as a software layer that provides applications with an unmodified Linux run-time environment.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Message Passing For Linux Clusters With Gigabit Ethernet Mesh Connections
White Papers However traditional message passing systems based on TCP for GigE will not perform well for this type of cluster clusters because of the overhead of TCP for multiple GigE links. Multiple copper-based -commodity Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interconnects...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Performance Of Scientific Applications On Linux Clusters
White Papers This paper presents performance comparisons of several scientific applications on the HPC Benchmark center Linux clusters. The quest to build increasingly powerful Linux cluster configurations for parallel computing based on out of the shelf...
[September 21, 2004, 3:00]
Tuning Tips For HPL On IBM XSeries Linux Clusters
White Papers This paper describes steps to take to achieve best performance on xSeries clusters that are running Linux. But now it is being done on HPC clusters built from off-the-shelf components. It is widely popular with customers who are implementing Linux...
[September 28, 2004, 3:00]
Large Scale Simulations In Nanostructures With NEMO3-D On Linux Clusters
White Papers High performance computing platforms, including large Linux clusters, are indispensable for this research. NEMO3D is a quantum mechanical based simulation tool created to provide quantitative predictions for nanometer-scaled semiconductor devices.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
PVFS: A Parallel File System For Linux Clusters
White Papers As Linux clusters have matured as platforms for lowcost, high-performance parallel computing, software packages to provide many key services have emerged, especially in areas such as message passing and networking.
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Bio?uid Simulations On Linux Clusters
White Papers The main components of this environment are: stabilized space-time finite element formulation of Navier-Stokes equations, mesh adaptation capability based on shear-slip mesh update method and elastic mesh update method, and portable message...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Performance Considerations For Network Switch Fabrics On Linux Clusters
White Papers 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...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
An Information Flow Based Security Model For Linux Clusters
White Papers This model is initially proposed for Linux clusters and it can be further extended to other distributed networks. With the increasing use of clusters and distributed networks in industry, research, and scientific discoveries, security issues are...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Enabling 1,000,000-Entity Simulations On Distributed Linux Clusters
White Papers The Information Sciences Institute and Caltech are enabling US Joint Forces COMmand (USJFCOM) and the Institute for Defense Analyses to conduct entity-level simulation experiments using hundreds of distributed computer nodes on Linux Clusters as a...
[August 13, 2008, 1:04]
Architecting Linux High-Availability Clusters - Part 2
White Papers In the past, clusters for high-availability (HA) solutions were expensive and usually required proprietary hardware and software support. Today, with the availability of Linux HA software solutions, users can build a cost-effective, high...
[January 5, 2005, 23:00]
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 With Real Application Clusters Installation With SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 And NetApp Storage
White Papers The database is Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Real Application Clusters (Oracle10gR2 RAC) with Oracle Cluster Ready Services (Oracle CRS). This technical report covers the installation of NetApp storage in a Network File System (NFS) environment...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Oracle10g Real Application Clusters Release 2 Install With Power Linux (SUSE9) And NetApp Storage
White Papers The database is Oracle10g Real Application Clusters release 2 (hereafter referred to as Oracle10gR2 RAC) with Oracle Cluster Ready Services (hereafter referred to as Oracle CRS). This paper covers the installation of NetApp storage in NFS...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Generic Linux Upgrade From Oracle9i Real Application Clusters To Oracle10gR1 Real Application Clusters Using Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA)
White Papers This white paper focuses on the upgrade part of DBUA from Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Release to the Oracle10g Real Application Clusters Release on Linux x86. The DBUA steps are identical on any Linux platform such as IA64 / x86_64.
[July 25, 2006, 4:55]
