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Making The Case For Free Software
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| The companyâs mission, according to its still operational web site, was
| to âbuild the worldâs most energy-efficient computers.â According to press
| reports around the time of the companyâs closure, SiCortex was unable to
| close on a new round of venture capital funding and simply ran out of money.
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| For open source advocates, the most valuable aspect of SiCortexâs property is
| the âPathScale compiler suite,â which according to a blog post from Bergstrom
| at www.codestream.com, is âone of the highest performance compilers in the
| industry.â A compiler is software that translates source code, the computer
| language written by people, into language a computer understands.
| Specifically, the PathScale compiler helped software programmers develop and
| deploy software applications.
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http://www.wbjournal.com/news44095.html
Linux Software RAID - A Belt and a Pair of Suspenders
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| There is an old phrase about wearing a belt and a pair of suspenders if you
| want to make sure your pants stay up (why havenât plumbers figured that
| out?). The point of the phrase is that if you want to be sure that your plans
| will happen you should have a backup plan as well. In the case of file
| systems this is literally the truth. If you want to make sure you donât lose
| any data, do backups as well as provide some other form of data protection.
| That something else for data protection is RAID (Redundant Array of
| Inexpensive Disks).
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7475/1.html
Related:
SiCortex Introduces Ultra Low Power Computers for Teraflops-Scale Linux
Applications
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| SiCortex has introduced its family of ultra low power high performance
| Linux systems.
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| [...]
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| SiCortex computers are open source Linux platforms, the predominant
| operating environment for high performance computing. Current
| Linux application software will operate on SiCortex systems
| without modification.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Hardware/SiCortex_Introduces_Ultra_Low_Power_Computers_for_TeraflopsScale_Linux_Applications
http://tinyurl.com/y2np7m
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