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How traditional IT shops can be more like public cloud providers
Want your data center to be more like an agile public cloud? Here’s how cloud providers handle apps, "big data," data center hardware and IT staffing. News
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Tune the Linux Ext4 file system for optimal performance
While Ext4 by default works fine for most people, follow these tips to tweak your servers to squeeze out even more speed. Tip
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Linux HPC users take advantage of new Amazon cloud service
Linux users are taking advantage of Cluster Compute Instances from Amazon Web Services, a new and cheap high-performance computing service. News
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Microsoft's HPC server hybrid option for Linux
Microsoft is trying to push into the supercomputing market with the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2's hybrid option for Linux, but will that be enough to lure Linux faithful? News
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Building high-availability clusters with Xen virtual machines
High-availability clusters can save your virtualized environment from downtime. Here's how to set up Xen virtual machines in a high-availability cluster. Tip
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NYSE/Euronext powers ahead with Unix-to-Linux migration
The New York Stock Exchange and its Euronext partner chose Red Hat for a universal trading platform for its speed, scalability and lack of vendor lock-in. Article
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Case Study: Financial firm switches from Unix, Windows to Linux on the mainframe
Case studies of server consolidation in large financial firms show the TCO and ROI of moving from Windows and Unix servers to the IBM z10 mainframe running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 with Satellite and JBoss. News
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One million Linux kernels booted by Sandia researchers using virtualization and HPC
Sandia researchers announced that they have booted one million Linux kernels using virtual machines. The project focus was to model botnets, but has other uses as well. News
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The Ext4 file system: A real improvement in Linux file storage?
The Ext4 file storage system is now integrated into the Linux kernel and supported by the major distributions. Should you switch from your Ext2 or Ext3 set-up? With complete backwards compatibility, there is little reason not to make the jump forward... Tip
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Using virtualization to reinvent high-performance computing on Linux
Virtualization can be a boon to high-performance computing on Linux, but administrators of these systems seem leery of the technology. Find out what virtualization can do for HPC. The plummeting hardware costs have brought supercomputer capabilities ... Tip