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 ...

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 ...

I have a 5 node linux (RedHat 7.2) cluster up and running. I have installed and configured LAM and MPICH, and they are working nicely. Next, I want to benchmark, but I'm having a hard time ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>At my work we are doing some fairly heavy structural FE analyses using ANSYS and LS-DYNA on the PC platform (WinXP). While some dual processor capabilities are present in these ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Despite the current brouhaha over Linux that IBM finds ...

High-end linux clustering comes of age this week with the launch of 32- and 64-bit platforms at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Although the promise of industrial-strength Linux clustering has been a ...

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with clustering pioneer Donald Becker, who started the Beowful project, and is now the CTO of Penguin Computing. I asked him a few questions about the ...

Linux clustering start-up Terascala is generating interest among investors, as the Massachusetts-based company recently received a $3 million in first-round venture capital funding. Terascala is ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...