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IBM brings speed to the low end
News The company also announced a new version of its Cluster Systems Management software for setting up and managing these computing clusters. IBM is bringing a faster processor to its lowest-end p615 Unix server and announced new software and hardware...
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
Start-up sees low-cost future in clusters
News For example, Oracle aggressively markets the Real Application Clusters, or RAC, version of its database, which can span a small group of servers. Executives from Katana Technology -- to be renamed VirtuOS Computing next year -- say the company's...
[December 17, 2004, 13:45]
Sun uses Intel and AMD for budget blades
News The company sells Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters, which lets several database servers work together to take on large computing tasks. Oracle has been pushing its database clusters on relatively cheap Intel-based servers, particularly those...
[May 19, 2003, 9:39]
Cray moves into the lower echelons of the computing market
News Cray's new systems are designed to compete with a newer breed of high-performance computer: clusters of low-end servers, networked together and typically running Linux on Intel or AMD chips. These clusters often use a software layer called Message...
[October 5, 2004, 10:25]
IBM launches 'Big Green Linux' initiative
News Clusters are seen as an alternative to mainframes for many applications, and are attractive on price because they can be built from individual low-cost commodity systems. IBM also announced IBM Implementation Services for Linux — high-availability...
[August 9, 2007, 10:07]
Linux gets PlayStation 3 chip support
News This software governs how a single pool of data is shared by a group of servers, a crucial element of Oracle efforts to make clusters of low-end computers a viable database alternative to expensive multiprocessor servers.
[March 22, 2006, 8:55]
Sun gets serious about cheap servers
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, who shared the stage with McNealy, declared that small machines woven together in clusters would phase out big machines. And for good reason: The low-end server market is growing at a much faster clip and in...
[May 20, 2003, 7:43]
Bytemark claims Atom server first
News A lot of our high-end customers do clusters with us," he said. The hosting company Bytemark has begun offering space on servers that use Intel's low-powered Atom processor. The Atom was designed for cheap, small laptops such as the Asus Eee and for...
[July 22, 2008, 17:01]
IBM puts Power in new blade server
News IBM expects customers with technical computing needs, such as the formation of supercomputing clusters, will use its Power blade servers, Dougherty said. But the technology will also work for networks and switches similar to the Myricom network...
[October 24, 2002, 9:13]
Blade server pioneer RLX boosts power
News The challenge, however, is that IBM Global Services and others can reproduce much of the expertise required to install Beowulf clusters, Haff said. However, as the torrid spending on Internet infrastructure evaporated, the company moved toward...
[February 17, 2003, 8:37]
US Energy Dept hands out $20m for tech research
News In the past, Big Blue has sold only prepackaged clusters of computers using Intel Xeon processors or IBM's own Power processors. It has also offered AMD-based clusters, but customers have had to configure and assemble the overall system themselves.
[November 4, 2003, 11:25]
How to build your own supercomputer, HP-style
News Other clusters, like the US' ASCI Red at Sandia National Laboratories, are comprised of heavily modified parts. Currently the hard limit for such a cluster is about 256 nodes, because of switching capacity, but that could be surpassed by linking...
[October 4, 2001, 17:12]
Backup on a budget
News I asked my team why we couldn't develop our own high-speed backup network and rely on more conventional storage from Dell, especially since Windows 2000 clusters were available, fast, reliable, and administratively strong with Active Directory.
[October 1, 2002, 12:13]
SGI claims supercomputing victory
News SGI's system is different from many clusters of low-end machines that make up most supercomputers today. Clusters can be used for fluid dynamics, "but it's extremely inefficient with those systems and the programming is very difficult," he said.
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
Oracle moulds database to grid
Talkback With Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC), companies string together several relatively low-cost hardware servers to perform the job of larger and more expensive servers. The author may not be aware of the companies running RAC successfully on...
[August 20, 2003, 0:24]
Supercomputers to run Windows
News High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. Microsoft could create a specialised version of its widely...
[May 25, 2004, 10:55]
IBM cements its supercomputing dominance
News High-ranked systems increasingly are clusters of hundreds or thousands of low-end machines rather than single powerful behemoths. However, use of the higher-end Itanium processor diminished from 84 in the last list to 49.
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
Sun pieces utility jigsaw together
News Most development today is done on single machines, but data centres increasingly are populated by clusters of low-end servers. A desktop utility, in which Sun cooperates with a high-speed Internet access company such as a cable television company...
[February 1, 2005, 8:10]
Linux: A baby with some way to go - analyst
News Systems sued as compute nodes in technical computing clusters While Linux' "good enough" capabilities and minimal costs make it worthy of deployment for low-end or midrange Web serving, e-mail routing, network printing and file serving, the report...
[April 6, 1999, 16:17]
A Year Ago: Linux: A baby with some way to go - analyst
News Systems used as compute nodes in technical computing clusters While Linux' "good enough" capabilities and minimal costs make it worthy of deployment for low-end or midrange Web serving, e-mail routing, network printing and file serving, the report...
[April 6, 2000, 7:00]
