BANGALORE: Furthering its commitment to Linux, Oracle Corporation has announced the release of its source code for a new cluster file system on Linux. The new cluster file system for Linux will help ...

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This middleware sits atop the operating system to facilitate management of Oracle9i clusters. Oracle will make the code available under the General Public License, and it will be downloadable ...

In today's competitive environment, the adage “time is money” takes on literal meaning. Keeping your business' data on-line and accessible is the foundation of overall system uptime. Whether it be ...

Abstract: In cluster file system, data distribution and load balancing become increasingly important. This paper presents a high performance run-time active block layout (RABL) mechanism which cans ...

Software clustering technologies have been evolving for the past few years and are currently gaining a lot of momentum for several reasons. These reasons include the benefits of deploying commodity, ...

As the Linux cluster market grows, so should Panasas. Company founders Garth Gibson and Bill Courtwright set out in 2000 to meet the need for scalable Linux storage. The company launched its first ...

In Part 1 of our series, we detailed the hardware choices and benchmarked the various GPUs and CPUs used in the HPU4Science scientific computation cluster. The cluster is built in a master-worker ...