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Linux Networx to unveil new cluster design
News Linux Networx, a company that specialises in supercomputers made from clusters of Linux machines, plans on Monday to unveil two new systems: the LS-1 and the LS-X. In a market where heavy hitters - such as Sun, IBM, HP and even Dell - have launched...
[November 14, 2005, 9:25]
Linux supercomputer firm adds storage bundles
News On Tuesday, Linux Networx introduced storage bundles as add-ons for its its LS series of supercomputing systems and its Advanced Technology Clusters. These are available now, Linux Networx said. The company, which specialises in supercomputers...
[March 1, 2006, 13:50]
Linux cluster firms win financial backing
News San Francisco-based Penguin Computing raised $10m, while Linux Networx in Salt Lake City received a $40m investment. Oak Investment Partners led Linux Networx' investment round and new investor Tudor Ventures participated.
[November 5, 2004, 7:38]
HP teams up for Linux supercomputers
News Hewlett-Packard has signed a partnership with Linux NetworX under which each company will use technology from the other for lower-cost supercomputers, the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Linux NetworX will use HP's Itanium 2 servers as...
[December 11, 2002, 10:23]
Linux company to work on supercomputer
News Linux NetworX, a company that focuses on joining collections of Linux computers into a supercomputer, will collaborate with SGI and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop software for storing data on these "clusters" of computers, the...
[August 29, 2001, 10:27]
Second Linux merger cancelled this week
News Linux NetworX and Ebiz Enterprises have called off their merger, the second time this week Linux companies have backed off from plans to join forces. Ebiz announced in March that it had agreed to acquire Linux NetworX, which builds low-cost...
[May 4, 2001, 10:07]
Linux to enter supercomputing top five
News The cluster, to be completed by Linux Networx this autumn, will be the fastest Linux or Intel-based supercomputer, and one of the world's five fastest supercomputers. This Intel-based Linux Networx system is historic in that it represents a viable...
[July 17, 2002, 13:10]
Lab to sample Linux for weapons work
News The new system, called the "Science Appliance" and built by Salt Lake City-based Linux NetworX, uses a cluster of 1,024 interconnected servers, each with two 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processors. The Science Appliance, due by the end of the year, will be...
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact
News More and more of the percentage of system value [is] from those things that go around the hardware," said Bernard Daines, founder and CEO of Linux Networx. Linux Networx helps customers decide how many processors and how much memory to install, as...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Big Mac supercomputer heads for top ranks
News Utah's Linux Networx, meanwhile, has won contracts to install systems at Los Alamos and other national research laboratories. The third-ranked system on the official list is, like the Big Mac, a cluster: it was built by Linux Networx for Lawrence...
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
Mac cluster rises in supercomputing ranks
News Utah's Linux Networx, meanwhile, has won contracts to install systems at Los Alamos and other national research laboratories. The third-ranked system on last year's list is, like the Big Mac, a cluster: it was built by Linux Networx for Lawrence...
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
Iceland turns to penguin-powered research
News Linux Networx, a Salt Lake City company that links numerous individual Linux servers into a collective supercomputer, has sold a system to the Icelandic Energy Authority that will be used to find likely locations on which to build geothermal power...
[February 28, 2003, 8:21]
Boeing puts Linux, AMD in orbit
News The system was built by Linux Networx, which specialises in "Beowulf" clusters -- gangs of networked Linux machines that collectively tackle computational problems. The system is the fourth that Linux Networx has sold to the aerospace giant, but it...
[March 15, 2001, 8:36]
In Linux Land, the battle is on for survival
News Penguin Computing tried to take on VA by selling servers, while Linux Networx and Atipa specialized in connecting numerous computers together to make cheap supercomputers. A new reality has set in for Linux companies: do whatever it takes to survive.
[March 13, 2001, 13:47]
US army purchases massive supercomputer
News The news comes a few months after Linux Networx announced that the same lab is buying a machine with 2,132 of Intel's new "Nocona" model Xeon processors. The IBM system, made of dual-processor machines running SuSE Linux from Novell, are connected...
[August 3, 2004, 9:15]
China wants place on supercomputer charts
News When the 4000A is ready for delivery next June -- and assuming the Top500 list remains unchanged -- it will knock the third-place 2,304 processor Linux NetWorx cluster at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory off its perch.
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
Small firm creates supercomputer Thunder
News Utah's Linux Networx, for instance, is building two supercomputing clusters based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory: a 2,816-processor cluster will be used to study nuclear stockpiling, while a...
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
Slim Opteron server on the way
News Appro competes not only with mainstream companies such as IBM, Dell and HP, but also with new entrant Apple Computer and specialists such as Linux Networx, which sells a rack with as many as 50 two-processor computers.
[March 21, 2003, 8:37]
Is AMD losing its supercomputing lustre?
News In March of last year AMD sold a Linux Networx-built 96-processor Beowulf cluster to Boeing to aid in designing the Delta IV rocket for launching satellites into orbit. A major British research centre has installed a supercomputer based on AMD's...
[April 18, 2002, 16:55]
Apple tempts with clustered servers
News Some clusters even ascend to supercomputer status, as in the case of the 2,304-processor behemoth built by Linux Networx for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that ranks as the world's fifth-fastest supercomputer on a list of the top 500...
[March 19, 2003, 7:50]
