SAN FRANCISCO--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 ...

The Rocks project was started at the San Diego Supercomputing Center in early 2000, with the goal of "making clusters easy". Rocks is a user-friendly software package that gives the user of a cluster ...

The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

When Glen Otero worked as a postdoc at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, he noticed a project called NPACI Rocks, which fine-tunes the operating system for cluster computing. That software now forms ...

Attendees at the BioIT World conference last week got a first look at a powerful new Linux clustering package for supercomputing environments. Scyld Software and its parent company Penguin Computing, ...

When Jehangir Athwal and his colleagues wanted a system to do the heavy lifting at their bioscience software company, they were interested in a supercomputer system. But sticker price shock turned the ...

Twice a year, a group of scientists in Europe and the United States release a list of the world's 500 most powerful computing systems. The Top 500 list is the most prestigious ranking of its kind, ...

A company that develops workload management tools for high-performance clusters is bringing its products to the commercial data center, where it says it can help companies allocate computing resources ...

How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...