Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

This middleware sits atop the operating system to facilitate management of Oracle9i clusters. Oracle will make the code available under the General Public License, and it will be downloadable ...

Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), ...

In today's competitive environment, the adage “time is money” takes on literal meaning. Keeping your business' data on-line and accessible is the foundation of overall system uptime. Whether it be ...

The deal, expected to close by early October, will give sun Cluster's Lustre File System, an open-source software distribution widely used in large computing systems Almost lost in the clamor over Sun ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Linux NetworX, a company that focuses on joining collections of Linux computers into a supercomputer, will collaborate with SGI and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop ...

In Part 1 of our series, we detailed the hardware choices and benchmarked the various GPUs and CPUs used in the HPU4Science scientific computation cluster. The cluster is built in a master-worker ...

Oracle on Tuesday touted at the LinuxWorld conference that its Cluster File System 2 for Linux will be distributed with the Linux kernel, the software that forms the basis of Linux distributions. The ...