Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Red Hat HPC Linux Cometh

Posted by timothy on from the oh-doeth-it? dept.

Slatterz writes "Red Hat will announce its first high-performance computing optimised distro, Red Hat HPC, on 7 October. The distro is a step forward from the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes. A part of the new distro is, by the way, created by a small Project Kusu team in Singapore. Kusu is the foundation for Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) which is an integral feature of Red Hat HPC. It might be sign of things to come, as more of hardware and software development moves to the Far East — even top-of-the-line computing performance."

2 of 34 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The question is by PornMaster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But is everything they're selling with this new offering GPL?

    --
    500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
  2. Re:Suprised this story made it here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    RH HPC wasn't just designed/developed in Asia. It is a collaborative effort. Actually a lot of the software came from Platform computing - a Canadian company (not sure if that article said that but others have). And the software that builds and manages the cluster is here: http://ocssrc.platform.com (well that is the source repo - not the binaries.

    So...don't be so quick to conclude from a crappy 'press article' that developers in North America (US and Canada) don't have the chops to build this stuff...fact is the team(s) are located in Toronto and Singapore.