High-Performance Linux Clustering

An anonymous reader writes "High Performance Computing (HPC) has become easier, and two reasons are the adoption of open source software concepts and the introduction and refinement of clustering technology. This first of two articles discusses the types of clusters available, uses for those clusters, reasons clusters have become popular for HPC, some fundamentals of HPC, and the role of Linux in HPC."

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Re:News?

[chinakow]

damn, feeding the troll.

This is "Stuff that matters."

And for fucks sake, if you aren't happy with slashdot, the door is right over there, don't let it hit you on the ass on the way out.

Linux?

[TheUnknownCoder]

Let's take a look at EVERYTHING he said about clustering with Linux:

With Linux [...] you can build powerful clusters with a very small budget and keep adding extra nodes based on need.br> The GNU/Linux operating system (Linux) has spurred the adoption of clusters on a large scale. Linux runs on a wide variety of hardware, and high-quality compilers and other software like parallel filesystems and MPI implementations are freely available for Linux. Also with Linux, users have the ability to customize the kernel for their workload. Linux is a recognized favorite platform for building HPC clusters.

That's what to do to have your article /.ed: use Google Sets and make sure you include at least half a dozen on the first paragraph...