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Regular readers of this blog will know that I've tracked the rather painful history of attempts to increase the deployment of free soft...

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...

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...

If nothing else, "Avatar" is a computational tour-de-force. Here are some details of the kit they used: It takes a lot of data c...

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

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

Look, those nice people at Microsoft Research are saving science from its data deluge: Addressing an audience of prominent academic researc...

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...

I am always amused - and slightly annoyed - that so much space is devoted to the wit and wisdom of Steve Ballmer, because basically he has n...

No, not that one , this one : Sandia National Laboratories’ 8960-processor Thunderbird Linux cluster, developed in collaboration with Dell, ...

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...

Think of GNU/Linux and you probably think of servers, maybe with a smidgeon of desktop thrown in for good measure. In fact, the domain wher...