Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux provides a well-balanced discussion that covers the basic design and construction of a Beowulf cluster, as well as how to manage and effectively use one. The ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Those of you familiar with the Linux High Availability (HA) scene will recognize Alan Robertson's name immediately. After all, along with people like Harald Milz and Lars Marowsky-Bree, he's one of ...

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 ...

Along with Dell and Red Hat, the software maker says it has developed a version of its 9i database software that can run across multiple Linux servers. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...

I originally posted this in distributed computing arcana, but they recommended I try here also. Thanks! View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif<BR><BR ...

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 ...

In a bit of serendipity, reader [Tim Molter] had decided on the IKEA Helmer cabinet for his new cluster right before seeing the previous IKEA cluster we covered. He and his coding partner recently ...