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Setting up MySQL Cluster 7.0 in Linux (Mar 7, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (2152 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Admin Zone: "You might know that beginning with MySQL 5.1.24, support for the NDBCLUSTER storage engine was removed from the standard MySQL server binaries built by MySQL. Therefore, here I’m using MySQL Cluster edition instead of MySQL Community edition."
Using Nmap to Fix a Problem (Mar 5, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (2153 reads)
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(feedback) Systhread: "Ever had an ipv4 network address that is supposed to migrate over via a high availability mechanism simply not work, or even stranger if there were several addresses some do and some do not?"
Oracle Drops Hitachi Data Storage Arrays (Mar 5, 2010, 09:02 UTC) (1820 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Oracle will stop selling high-end data storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems at the end of the month, according to a notice from HDS to its channel partners."
HipHop steals Web serving from Apache at Facebook (Feb 26, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (2360 reads)
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(feedback) CIO: "Despite using the venerable LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack to build one of the busiest sites on the Internet, Facebook is moving its main Web serving infrastructure from Apache to HipHop for PHP, which has its own embedded Web server."
In-depth documentation of openQRM available
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(feedback) LinuxPR: In-depth documentation of openQRM available
A complete technical documentation about the concepts, architecture and internals of openQRM including use-cases is now available.
Linux is now Oracle's low-end offering (Feb 21, 2010, 04:02 UTC) (3918 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "Oracle Corp. has rekindled its Solaris love. Sun's Solaris operating system will underlie new high-end data center appliances running the Oracle software stack. And Oracle EnterpriseLinux now becomes the preferred OS for lower-end commodity hardware."
IBM Unveils Clustered NAS Storage (Feb 13, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (3047 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "The Samba-based systems include management nodes, switches, interface nodes, data storage nodes, RAID controllers and expansion units, and offer snapshot capabilities, tiered storage and HSM through Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)."
Who Is Developing KVM Linux Virtualization? (Feb 12, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (3233 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Five years ago, the open source Xen hypervisor was the primary technology that big vendors like IBM and Red Hat were adopting and pushing. In 2010, that's no longer the case as the rival KVM effort is now getting the attention of both IBM and Red Hat , as well as many others in the Linux ecosystem."
Red Hat Ramps Up Open Source Cloud Projects (Feb 11, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (1410 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "The cloud isn't just another word for basic application hosting on a single remote server. The cloud involves the notion of distributed assets that are highly available and scalable."
The new LTSP-Cluster website's officially out (Feb 11, 2010, 10:03 UTC) (1718 reads)
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(feedback) Stéphane Graber's website: "The LTSP-Cluster project is proud to announce that its website is now on-line.
LTSP-Cluster is a project to extend LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) with the required components for a large scale deployment."
Nexenta = flying a F29 with a wii remote and other highlights of the last few days (Feb 9, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (1836 reads)
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(feedback) Nexenta: "Just since Wednesday of this week here are a few things that have happened:...One of the world’s top technology companies took delivery of a HA Cluster with attached JBODs from PogoLinux and reached out to us and Pogo to say this is great and they’d like us to talk to their corporate headquarters about a larger relationship."
HP Launches First Quad-Core Itanium Systems (Feb 9, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (3056 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Intel launched what will be its largest server and storage refresh beginning Monday with the introduction of the Itanium 9300 line, the long-delayed "Tukwila" family of quad-core Itanium processors."
BM Ups Its Processor Power to 7 (Feb 9, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (1881 reads)
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(feedback) Hardware Central: "During an event late last month celebrating the completion of Oracle's merger with Sun, the company's outspoken chief executive took repeated shots at IBM (NYSE: IBM), saying that Big Blue's systems couldn't scale."
Health Check: FreeBSD - "The unknown giant" (Feb 4, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (2585 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple's OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo!, which before the rise of Google was the busiest site on the internet."
How to configure maximum performance storage space for Debian GNU / Linux on IBM (Feb 4, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (1713 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Blog: "The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines.
But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux."
Size Can Matter: Throughput Performance with a Disk-Based Journal - Part 4 (Feb 4, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1638 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Turning from Metadata performance to throughput performance, we examines the impact of journal size on ext4 when the journal is disk-based. Dig into the numbers and see what you can do to improve throughput performance."
TPC Benchmarks Now Measure Server Power Use (Feb 3, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1337 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced its newest specification, TPC-Energy, which measures the energy usage of a server to gauge not only transactions per second but transactions per watt as well."
London Stock Exchange Linux switchover set for September (Feb 3, 2010, 16:32 UTC) (2260 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "The London Stock Exchange will switch on the first module of its Linux and Unix-based trading platform in September, replacing existing Microsoft .Net architecture."
When Memory Serves You: Using ramfs and tmpfs (Feb 1, 2010, 15:33 UTC) (2665 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered"
High-end NAS device runs Linux (Jan 30, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (3882 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Devices: "Enhance Technology announced an eight-disk, Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) device, offering up to 16TB of SATA storage. The UltraShare NAS8000-P4 incorporates an Intel Xeon (Nehalem) CPU clocked at 2.0GHz, four gigabit Ethernet ports, and an optional gateway for expanding to up to 176TB."
Blade Server Reality Check (Jan 29, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (2462 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Are you seriously considering, or currently deploying, blade servers in 2010? If so, I hope you've done your research and accepted their vendor lock-in and other shortcomings in addition to their marketed promises."
Record-setting Linux (Jan 26, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (1704 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "Recently, French software engineer Fabrice Bellard calculated the value of pi to 2.7 trillion numbers — with a souped-up but otherwise ordinary home PC running Red Hat's Fedora Linux."
China Details Homemade Supercomputer Plans (Jan 25, 2010, 13:33 UTC) (1774 reads)
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(feedback) Technology Review: "It's official: China's next supercomputer, the petascale Dawning 6000, will be constructed exclusively with home-grown microprocessors. Weiwu Hu, chief architect of the Loongson (also known as "Godson") family of CPUs at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also confirms that the supercomputer will run Linux."
Grid Computing and the Future of Cloud Computing (Jan 22, 2010, 09:04 UTC) (2154 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "One of the most notable projects to make use of grid computing was SETI@home, which utilized thousands of Internet-connected computers to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (and still does)."
10 Years of IBM Linux: Embracing Customer Choice (Jan 21, 2010, 12:02 UTC) (1764 reads)
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(feedback) Database Trends: "Involved with Linux since IBM's initial entry into the space more than 10 years ago, Jonathan Prial is now vice president of enablement for sales teams at IBM. Here, he talks with The Linux Executive Report from IBM about IBM's early presence in the Linux market, how he sees Linux use evolving, and why it's important to be a student for life in the world of technology."
Size Can Matter: Ramdisk Journal Metadata Performance - Part 2 (Jan 20, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (2096 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Previously, we examined the impact of journal size using a separate disk on metadata performance as measured by fdtree. In this follow-up we repeat the same test but use a ramdisk for the journal, thereby boosting the best performance. Or does it?"
VirtualBox’s Little Secret: The Command Line (Jan 19, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (5107 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI)."
The Performance Of EXT4 Then & Now (Jan 19, 2010, 23:04 UTC) (4713 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "The performance of the EXT4 file-system commonly goes down with new kernel releases and not up, as kernel developers continue to introduce new safeguards to address potential data loss problems that initially plagued some EXT4 users."
Google To Switch To EXT4, Hires Ted To Code (Jan 16, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (6771 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Google is in the process of migrating their EXT2 file-systems over to the modern EXT4 file-system. This was brought up in a JFS benchmarking discussion"
How Social Networking Works (Jan 8, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (2341 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "How do the social networks manage millions of users and hundreds of millions of updates? The answers lie in open-source software and thousands of servers"
Avatar Movie Made Possible With Linux (Jan 6, 2010, 23:05 UTC) (5678 reads)
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(feedback) Really Linux: "But then I realize the significant absence of credit for the underlying operating system that made these extreme and complex computer generated graphics possible.
Where are the accolades for Linux?"
System z: Dinosaur or Phoenix? (Jan 6, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (2292 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "Scan through IT news on any given day, and there's a good chance you'll find a story about some large organization or another replacing its IBM mainframe with servers running UNIX, Linux — and sometimes even Windows."
