Intel’s Cluster Ready program continues to make life easier in the HPC ecosystem. You’ve gotta like that. This week Colfax International jumped on the bandwagon with the CX-2290JF-X5 Cluster, which starts shipping sometime next year. 

With four times more power than the next competitor, Japan's K Computer (and Linux) remains at the top of the TOP500 List.

In this video, Avere Systems’ Rebecca Thompson describes the company’s innovative NAS Optimization products and how they enabled a world record 1.6 Million IOPs. Learn more on the Avere Performance Page. There’s another great reason to stop by the Avere booth #442 at SC11, at the end of each…

The good news: FreeBSD 9.0 RC2 is now available. The bad news with that announcement: FreeBSD 9.0 RC2 is late, which also means the third (and last) release candidate has been pushed back along with the final release. Hopefully FreeBSD 9.0 will arrive in time for Christmas…

What a difference a year makes! In this video, Peter Bojanic from Xyratex discusses the vibrant state of the Lustre Community at SC11. 

While the GNOME and KDE projects are still working towards making their desktops run on the Wayland Display Server rather than an X.Org Server, the Enlightenment project is also working towards bringing E17 window manager and libraries to Wayland. In fact, they have the first visible signs of success!..

I am delighted to announce that Michael Hall, also known as mhall119 on IRC will be joining the Canonical Community Team and working with our upstreams, with a particular focus on growing participation in Unity and other upstreams closely related to Ubuntu. Michael has a strong development background, has been…

Amazon could launch a smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to supply channel checks performed by Citigroup analyst Kevin Chang.

With Z-Admin 1.0, Zarafa has added an open source graphical system administration tool to its Zafara Collaboration Platform groupware solution…

The developers behind the openSUSE project announced this week the availability of openSUSE 12.1, a major new version of the community-driven Linux distribution. After eight months in development, the new version brings some noteworthy improvements and updated software. This is an especially significant release because it’s the first one that…