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The Roadrunner Supercomputer: a Petaflop's No Problem

By James Gray 
IBM and Los Alamos National Lab built Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer. It not only reached a petaflop, it beat that by more than 10%. This is the story behind Roadrunner. more>>
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Linux Powers The Spiderwick Chronicles

By Robin Rowe 
Linux software on Macintosh desktops with Linux renderfarms creates Paramount movie. more>>
RapidMind

Picking the RapidMind

By Nicholas Petreley 
RapidMind has a mind to make advances in the use of multicore programming rapidly available. more>>
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Roman's Law and Fast Processing with Multiple CPU Cores

By Roman Shaposhnik 
Some practical methods to exploit multiple cores and find thread synchronization problems. more>>

High-Performance Linux Clusters

By David Morton 
The present and future of high-performance computing. more>>

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite

By Khurram Shiraz 
Building a highly available solution using the RHEL cluster suite. more>>
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DRBD in a Heartbeat

By Pedro Pla 
How to build a redundant, high-availability system with DRBD and Heartbeat. more>>
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/var/opinion - Parallel Is Coming into Its Own

By Nicholas Petreley 
Changing my mind about distributed computing made me aware of the sweet aroma of opportunity. more>>
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Getting Started with Condor

By Irfan Habib 
How to try Condor for multiplatform distributed computing. more>>
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Clustering Is Not Rocket Science

By Rowan Gollan 
HPC clustering for computing at hypersonic speed is not as difficult as it sounds. more>>
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Mainstream Parallel Programming

By Michael-Jon Ain... 
Whether you're a scientist, graphic artist, musician or movie executive, you can benefit from the speed and price of today's high-performance Beowulf clusters. more>>

The Ultimate Linux Server

By Nicholas Petreley 
The Aberdeen A261T rackmount server delivers amazing bang for the buck as a rule of thumb—literally. more>>
Cray XD1 System Architecture

Heterogeneous Processing: a Strategy for Augmenting Moore's Law

By Amar Shan 
One way to break the high performance computing barrier imposed by the limitations of Moore's Law more>>
X-Sat

First Beowulf Cluster in Space

By Ian McLoughlin 
When a satellite's image-gathering power exceeds the bandwidth available to transmit the images, a Linux cluster right on the satellite helps decide which images to send back to Earth. more>>

Measuring and Improving Application Performance with PerfSuite

By Rick Kufrin 
Get a realistic view of how your program runs on real hardware, so you can find small changes that make a big performance difference. more>>
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