Jan
18

The Mother of all Linux Servers

Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, www.NewsFactor.com Until a few years ago, the Top 500 list of supercomputers was dominated by proprietary solutions with prices that put high-performance computing (HPC) out of reach for all but the most well-funded institutions and companies. Then came Linux. The open source OS has gate-crashed the Top 500 list in a big [...]

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Jan
15

Universities’ $8m Linux foray

James Riley QUEENSLAND’S university-based advanced computing consortium has acquired two Linux-based supercomputers from Silicon Graphics worth about $8 million. The Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation (QPSF) expects to complete installation of the systems in February, making it one of the first users of the newly launched Itanium2-based Linux SGI machines worldwide. SGI launched the new range [...]

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Jan
13

SGI finds 2,048 uses for an Itanic

By Andrew Orlowski If anyone can find a use for an Itanium chip, it ought to be SGI. Although the processor remains stillborn as a commercial computing proposition, the benchmarks are impressive and improving, and SGI’s technical computing customers typically need a much smaller working set of software to get their work done. Still, it’s [...]

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Jan
12

New TV channel with the best, latest lined up to entertain Arab youths

from the Bahrain Tribune The first 24-hour English entertainment channel called ‘2’ of the mbc group today begins transmission on ArabSat 2A and ArabSat 3A digital service from Bahrain at 6pm. The Arab youth is the target of the channel, launched yesterday under the patronage of the Minister of Information, Nabeel bin Yacoub Al Hamer. [...]

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Jan
08

Avid Announces Free DV Editing Software

Avid Free DV Enables Easy Introduction to Avid Family San Francisco, CA – January 7, 2003 – At the Macworld 2003 Expo (booth #2239), Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced Avid® Free DV – a free, DV-only version of its award-winning video editing software. Planned for both Macintosh OS X and Windows XP platforms, [...]

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Jan
08

Can Linux help save SGI?

- By Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller – One of Linux’s supposed barriers in high performance computing is the “eight processor limit.” SGI says their new Altix 3000 line, running a patched 2.4.19 kernel, handily breaks this barrier — it can run up to 64 Intel Itanium 2 microprocessers — and that “superclusters” built with SGI’s Linux-based [...]

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