Bumps on the Road to Grid Computing
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| Last October, Cucci's group completed a year-long project that
| moved a mission-critical COBOL billing application from the mainframe
| to a Linux grid running DataSynapse GridServer.
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| [...]
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| Software licenses, not technical issues, could be what prevents
| an application from running on your grid.
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http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Bumps-on-the-Road-to-Grid-Computing/story.xhtml?story_id=030000Z91V36
http://tinyurl.com/ywxc8v
Related:
Top 500 Supercomputer Sites - November 2006
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| On the new list, the IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOE's
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), retains the No.
| 1 spot with a Linpack performance of 280.6 teraflops (trillions
| of calculations per second, or Tflop/s).
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http://top500.org/lists/2006/11
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| Operating system Family: Linux
| Count: 376
| Share %: 75.20%
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San Diego Supercomputer Center Triples Blue Gene Power While Achieving Record
Storage Capacity Based on Newly Introduced IBM Technology
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| SDSC hosts a 4.4-teraflop IA 64 Linux cluster, 2.4 petabytes of
| online disk storage, 25 petabytes of archival storage, 220
| terabytes of General Parallel File System mounted across the
| TeraGrid, and is connected to the other national TeraGrid
| partners by a 10-Gbps cross-country backbone.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070208/0213164.html
Linux and High-Performance Computing
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| So where does Windows fit in?
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| Windows has a lot to offer design engineers, especially those with
| more limited resources or goals. UNIX still has a lot to offer for
| many legacy HPC applications. Both Windows and UNIX require more
| work to be able to deliver the same functionality and compelling
| price-performance value of Linux. The HPC market is more open and
| competitive than it has ever been, but for design engineers focusing
| on solving their design challenges, it's clear that Linux is still
| the best choice for today and the foreseeable future.
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http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6421353.html
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| Microsoft only had a brief moment on the Top 500 supercomputer list before
| the machine was rebooted as a Linux cluster last fall.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2413430-EEAF-455C-9D85-706DC25D148D
Microsoft hops on Bull for clusters
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| Only Microsoft could launch a "2003" operating system in 2006
| after having spent the last 18 months or so hawking beta
| versions of Windows CCS. The software maker hopes to crackt
| he high performance computing market that has been dominated
| by Linux clusters.
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| The task, however, won't be easy.
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| Windows CCS has thus far appeared on a limited number of rather
| small clusters -- not the multi-thousand processor systems that
| garner the most attention.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/13/bull_windows_ccs/
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