Showing posts with label supercomputers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supercomputers. Show all posts
10 February 2013

What's the next big platform for Linux?

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Linux has a problem: it's running out of platforms to conquer. It's already the top operating system for smartphones and supercom...
15 November 2010

Microsoft: Super - But Not Quite Super Enough

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Once upon a time, the Netcraft Web server market share was reported upon eagerly every month for the fact that it showed open source soundly...
09 November 2010

Is it Time for Free Software to Move on?

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A remarkable continuity underlies free software, going all the way back to Richard Stallman's first programs for his new GNU project. An...
01 June 2010

GNU/Linux *Does* Scale – and How

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As everyone knows, GNU/Linux grew up as a project to create a completely free alternative to Unix. Key parts were written by Richard Stallma...
27 January 2010

Enter the (Big) Dragon

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As part of my continuing service to report on the fascinating developments in the Chinese chip sector, I pass on the following : It's of...
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12 October 2009

Windows Does Not Scale

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Who's afraid of the data deluge ? Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will so...
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07 October 2009

Meet Microsoft, the Delusional

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This is hilarious : Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. He said Bing...
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23 June 2009

GNU/Linux Tops TOP500 Supercomputers Again

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The fact that GNU/Linux totally dominates the top 500 supercomputing list is hardly news, but the fact that it has managed to *increase* its...
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17 November 2008

The Super Windows That...Couldn't

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One of the more bizarre accusations flung by Microsoft at GNU/Linux over the years is that it doesn't scale. This is part of a larger ca...
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06 February 2008

Running the Internet - All of It - on GNU/Linux

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Everyone knows that Google uses hundreds of thousands of commodity PCs running GNU/Linux to power its services. Well, IBM wants to go one f...
02 January 2008

Vista's Problem: Microsoft Does Not Scale

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It is deeply ironic that once upon a time Linux - and Linus - was taxed with an inability to scale. Today, though, when Linux is running ev...
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15 November 2007

Adding Some Lustre to Supercomputing

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Everybody knows that GNU/Linux absolutely dominates the top 500 supercomputing listings: in the latest survey it notches up an 85% share (W...
25 April 2007

Virtual Mouse Brain is Penguin-Powered

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One of GNU/Linux's unique properties is its ability to run on dozens of platforms (whereas Windows runs on precisely one, that of Intel&...
14 November 2006

Top500 Supercomputers: Guess Who's Top?

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The Top500 Supercomputer list is always fun, not least because it shows us where we will all be in a few years' time. There are all so...
16 May 2006

Bird 'Flu vs. Open Source, Open Data

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IBM pushes all the right buttons in this announcement of an open source, open data project to predict and help stem the spread of infectiou...