BANGALORE: Furthering its commitment to Linux, Oracle Corporation has announced the release of its source code for a new cluster file system on Linux. The new cluster file system for Linux will help ...

Software clustering technologies have been evolving for the past few years and are currently gaining a lot of momentum for several reasons. These reasons include the benefits of deploying commodity, ...

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 ...

PolyServe added the automated collection of performance statistics to it Linux file server clustering utility. The company, which provides file server clustering software, enhanced its PolyServe File ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

Some time ago I setup a nice Linux HA cluster for the office. Its been tweaked and upgraded a bit over the years, and currently exists as a pair of Dell PE T310 Towers, each with Quad Core Xeon, 8gb ...

Russ Miller runs a monster of a server cluster that eats storage at an incredible rate. The bandwidth requirements alone on his 22TFLOPS system force Miller to look outside the storage box, so to ...

As HPC Linux clustering has matured, it has become an aid to rocket science, without needing to be rocket science itself. That last statement probably requires some clarification. When clusters were ...

A file server is a specialized PC that holds large numbers of files that many people on a network can access. It “serves up” files to everyone instead of each person having files on his or her own PC.