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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 ...

Microsoft has fixed a container escape bug dubbed FabricScape in the Service Fabric (SF) application hosting platform that let threat actors escalate privileges to root, gain control of the host node, ...

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 ...

In the age of digital transformation, the uptime and continuous availability of systems are paramount for businesses across all sectors. High Availability (HA) clustering has emerged as a critical ...

Linux Networx, a Linux cluster vendor, announced last week that The Eurocopter Group has installed one of its clusters at its German engineering location to allow them to more efficiently manipulate ...

Microsoft this week disclosed a serious container-escape vulnerability in its widely used Azure Service Fabric technology, which gives attackers a way to gain root privileges on the host node and take ...

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 ...

SO I have a BUNCH of older machines laying around that I probably couldn't get anything for. I was thinking this would be a good time to learn linux clustering. Question is what do I do with a cluster ...

Dell Inc. will build a high-performance computing cluster for the University of Texas at Austin that is just the latest in a recent string of Linux-powered clusters, Dell announced Friday. The Round ...

Expanding an existing relationship, Rackable Systems and The BioTeam this week released Rackable Linux cluster servers bundled with BioTeam’s Inquiry bioinformatics software tools suite, announcing ...

Looking to get a leg up on Oracle Corp. and make its open-source database offerings more enterprise-worthy, IBM is boosting the clustering capabilities of its DB2 software for the Linux operating ...