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XSEDE Project Up and Running
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) replaces the TeraGrid project as a source for HPC services within the scientific community.
IBM Snaps Up Platform Computing
IBM bolsters its holdings in the red-hot grid computing space with its purchase of Platform Computing, a leader in clustering and HPC solutions.
HP Announces – But Doesn’t Release – New Cloud Services
Select beta testers get to take the new cloud services for a spin, but most details remain under wraps.
Ack Wants To Be The Better Grep
A tiny tool named Ack seeks to supersede the classic Unix command line tool Grep.
What Happens with WebOS?
Just two months after it became available, HP announced in a press release it would discontinue its TouchPad tablets and smartphone devices that run webOS, the Linux-based operating system it inherited in the $1.2 billion purchase of Palm in April 2010. But what will happen to webOS, the smartphone OS that many still consider an alternative to Android and the iPhone?
Power Budgeting in the Virtual Data Center
The virtualization revolution was partly driven by a need to save on energy costs, but further improvements won't happen unless system vendors give up the old paradigms for power budgeting.
Amazon Cloud Accelerated with Memcache
With a new offering Amazon seeks to accelerate websites in its cloud.
SmartOS Weds Open Solaris to Linux KVM Virtualization
Joyent releases the SmartOS operating system, that brings together Open Solaris and Linux KVM.
Drizzle Database Supports ZeroMQ Messaging
With its latest release the MySQL fork Drizzle supports messaging through the ZeroMQ broker.
Podcast: What's the Current State of Btrfs?
Chris Mason, head of the Linux kernel team at Oracle, talks about the currrent state of the Btrfs filesystem.
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