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The Super Windows That...Couldn't
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| One of the more bizarre accusations flung by Microsoft at GNU/Linux over the
| years is that it doesn't scale. This is part of a larger campaign to portray
| it as a kind of “toy” operating system – fine for low-end stuff, but nothing
| you'd want to run your enterprise on.
|
| Sadly, that narrative has been rather undermined by the independent Top500
| supercomputing sites ranking. Five years ago, the GNU/Linux family ran 36.80%
| of the top 500 supercomputers; worse, Windows ran on precisely one
| supercomputer.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1517&blogid=14
Poor Windows. Still trying to enter the market while the company enters debt.
Recent:
Linux still super in Top500
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| In the June 2008 Top500 list, Linux still lives large with a role in 92% of
| systems (It is the only OS for 85.4%, but when considering all distributions
| (SUSE, Red Hat, CentOS, and general ‘Linux,’ as well as mixed uses that
| include Linux, I figure the share is more like the 92%).
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/26/linux-still-super-in-top500/
Penguin Computing and Altair to Deliver Enhanced Utility to HPC Cluster Users
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| Altair, the leader in grid-computing, workload management and CAE
| applications, and Penguin Computing, a leading provider of HPC clustering
| solutions, announced today their partnership to deliver Linux HPC clusters
| with unprecedented ease of use to the rapidly growing technical computing
| market.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/9/prweb1345354.htm
Red Hat Delivers First Integrated Linux-Based High Performance Computing
Platform
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| Historically, building and managing HPC clusters has provided cost and
| expertise challenges for IT departments faced with lengthy deployment
| timelines and tedious integration work requiring extensive training, planning
| and upkeep. Today, with the availability of the comprehensive Red Hat HPC
| Solution, customers of all levels and workloads are offered the benefits of
| high-performance computing through an easy-to-install, end-to-end solution
| that can be deployed in under one hour.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/red-hat-delivers-first-integrated/story.aspx?guid=%7BA5603E72-FBEC-4C49-A87C-37BD611B0038%7D&dist=hppr
SiCortex cranks clocks on mega MIPS machines
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| Supercomputer maker SiCortex launched its first MIPS-based Linux machines
| back in November 2006 and has been gradually ramping up sales. To help make
| its sales pitch easier, the company this week announced a kicker to its
| original boxes, which now support faster processors, a tweaked software
| stack, and manufacturing costs that SiCortex is passing on to its customers
| as lower prices.
|
| [...]
|
| In the wake of its acquisition of compiler expert PathScale, SiCortex has
| done a MIPS port of the compiler suite and has also done a lot of work on the
| libraries and systems software in the variant of Gentoo Linux (one of the
| many flavors of Debian Linux out there) and the Lustre clustered file system
| used SiCortex iron.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/sicortex_kicker/
Dell and Platform Computing Collaborate on HPC Management Software Solution
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| Platform OCS - Dell Edition an Out-of-Box Open Source Solution to Build HPC
| Environments
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| [...]
|
| Dell Edition helps administrators efficiently deploy and manage Linux(R)
| Operating System-based HPC clusters even in highly complex environments.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/dell-platform-computing-collaborate-hpc/story.aspx?guid=%7B94216CC8-55CA-42AA-B494-53B78E0E71DB%7D&dist=hppr
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