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[News] Automated Linux Installs and the 200,000 Cores Question

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Complete Kickstart: How to Save Time Installing Linux

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| All of these installations can be time-consuming, so we were tasked with 
| creating a locally available kickstart server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
| 5.1.  
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6747

Application Security Matters: Deploying Enterprise Software Securely

http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1172

Really Big Things

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| Another significant failure point that rears its head with large clusters is 
| job management. If the scheduler crashes, or has difficulties managing the 
| number of jobs, then the cluster will not be able to run effectively. For 
| instance, in our hypothetical 25,000 node cluster, there would be 200,000 
| cores.    
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6744/

Large clusters don't scale with Windows.


Recent:

Vista's Problem: Microsoft Does Not Scale

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| It is deeply ironic that once upon a time Linux - and Linus - was taxed with 
| an inability to scale. Today, though, when Linux is running everything from 
| most of the world's supercomputers to the new class of sub-laptops like the 
| Asus EEE PC and increasing numbers of mobile phones, it is Microsoft that 
| finds itself unable to scale its development methodology to handle this 
| range. Indeed, it can't even produce a decent desktop system, as the whole 
| Vista fiasco demonstrates.      
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/vistas-problem-microsoft-does-not-scale.html


Inside the UK's fastest machine

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| The High-End Computing Terascale Resource, or HECToR as it is known, owned by 
| the Research Councils of the UK will be used by scientists to simulate 
| everything from climate change to atomic structures. It could run at speeds 
| of up to 100 teraflops and will be able to carry out up to 100 trillion 
| calculations every second, 100,000 times faster than an ordinary computer.    
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/02/computing.climatechange


Related:

Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers

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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X 
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459 
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.  
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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