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Is OpenSolaris on IBM z yet?
Sine Nomine Associates did most of the work in getting OpenSolaris working on the IBM z mainframe, but it did have help both from Sun Microsystems and IBM. But only time will tell whether actual use of it in production will grow to a sustainable leve... News
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Euronext nears debut of Red Hat-based global trading platform
Undeterred by financial crisis and stock market losses around the globe, NYSE Euronext nears the European debut of its Red Hat Linux-based trading platform. Article
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Red Hat, Platform Computing bundle brings HPC to mere mortals
Red Hat has debuted HPC Solution, which layers a high-performance cluster management stack on top of its 64-bit OS, and aims to ease HPC management for users. Article
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SUSE-Linux-on-IBM-loaned mainframe becomes teaching ground
The University of Arkansas now has courses devoted to Linux on the mainframe. It also has a loaned z900 machine, which it shares, along with compute resources, with other schools. Article
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Merrill Lynch travels rocky road to 'stateless computing'
Merrill Lynch touted its "stateless computing" cloud at LinuxWorld. But one analyst countered that the project pushed the limits of technology to the edge. Article
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LinuxWorld 2008 conference coverage
This year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo and Next Generation Data Center conference take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Aug. 4-7. Check out our news, product announcements and video from the show floor. Conference Coverage
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Heartbeat
Heartbeat is a program that runs specialized scripts automatically whenever a system is initialized or rebooted. Originally designed for two-node Linux-based clusters, Heartbeat is extensible to larger configurations... (Continued) Definition
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Building an HPC Linux cluster has gotten simpler, Beowulf leader says
A Beowulf Project founder spoke recently about the improvements made to the process of building a Linux high-performance computing, or HPC, cluster. Article
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Linux experiences 'prolific' growth, says Linux Foundation's Zemlin
From mobile applications to high-performance computing. Linux has become increasingly central to all kinds of computing, says the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin. But is it really a two-horse race between Linux and Microsoft? Article
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Red Hat's MRG makes advances in real-time computing
Red Hat's newly released MRG platform adds messaging, real-time and grid computing control to its Linux operating system. Article