If downtime cost is non-zero and money is an issue, you can try Oracle Linux. It is free for download & use / deploy, includes optional support, and it is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
A lot of people argue that Redhat develops RHEL, so they pay Redhat for support. However, that is not fair to the other contributors - the Linux kernel is developed by many others including IBM, Novell/SuSE, AMD, Intel, and yes, Oracle. Redhat packages a lot of code from many open source projects (I know that is a lot of work), but most of the code is not contributed by any single individual or company. For example, filesystems like Brtfs & OCFS are developed by Oracle, and performance fixes including OLTP, Infiniband, and SSD disk access, NUMA-optimizations, RDS, async I/O, OCFS, and networking are contributed by Oracle as well. And the Oracle "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" is developed by Oracle and licensed under GPLv2.
Grid Computing:
- Platform LSF: from the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto. Platform's revenue is well over $70M in 2010.
- Sun Grid Engine (now Oracle Grid Engine & the open-source Open Grid Scheduler): from DQS at the Florida State University
Cloud Computing:
- Eucalyptus: from the University of California, Santa Barbara
HPC middleware:
- Open MPI - PhD thesis, powering the #1 TOP500 supercomputer
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This is not news - at least that's what I learned from watching 24 & Jack Bauer.
Then why is the HP Public Cloud built on Ubuntu Linux?? http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/06/ubuntu-powers-hp-public-cloud/
BTW, it was discussed on the Oracle Linux forum that Oracle does support existing CentOS installations.
If downtime cost is non-zero and money is an issue, you can try Oracle Linux. It is free for download & use / deploy, includes optional support, and it is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. A lot of people argue that Redhat develops RHEL, so they pay Redhat for support. However, that is not fair to the other contributors - the Linux kernel is developed by many others including IBM, Novell/SuSE, AMD, Intel, and yes, Oracle. Redhat packages a lot of code from many open source projects (I know that is a lot of work), but most of the code is not contributed by any single individual or company. For example, filesystems like Brtfs & OCFS are developed by Oracle, and performance fixes including OLTP, Infiniband, and SSD disk access, NUMA-optimizations, RDS, async I/O, OCFS, and networking are contributed by Oracle as well. And the Oracle "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" is developed by Oracle and licensed under GPLv2.
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Grid Computing:
- Platform LSF: from the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto. Platform's revenue is well over $70M in 2010.
- Sun Grid Engine (now Oracle Grid Engine & the open-source Open Grid Scheduler): from DQS at the Florida State University
Cloud Computing:
- Eucalyptus: from the University of California, Santa Barbara
HPC middleware:
- Open MPI - PhD thesis, powering the #1 TOP500 supercomputer
But you didn't count the power and cooling costs... not to mention that space does cost something!
IBM's World Community Grid: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
investigate protein-related diseases: http://predictor.scripps.edu/
Rosetta@home: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
Cell Computing http://www.cellcomputing.net/
BOINC can easily network thousands of PC and Unix servers to run simulation of this kind. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Opteron boxes are very popular in compute farms/clusters, and Sun will release the 8-socket machine soon.