Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their then remarkable speeds. Then, at the turn of the 21st century, people began working out how to achieve record-breaking computer speed by linking hundreds or thousands of commercial microprocessors running Linux and connected with high-speed networking in MPP (massively parallel processor) arrays. [...]
Unix is 40-years old. 1969, the summer of love, was the summer of not having enough computer resources for AT&T Bell Lab employees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. After the failure of Multics, a timesharing operating system, the two needed a computer and an operating system to run Space Travel, an early computer game. Since [...]
Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program.
VirtualBox, now part of Sun’s xVM series, runs on a wide variety of host operating [...]
While the worldwide server market’s factory revenue grew 6.4% over the last year, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Track, Linux server revenue was running ahead of the curve at a growth rate of 10%.
The economy may be tanking, but the worldwide server market still did $13.9-billion worth of business in 2008’s second quarter, [...]
You know zombie movies. You chop ‘em. You set ‘em on fire. You machine-gun ‘em and they just keep coming.
They’re scary at first, but then, except for the very best zombie movies – Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later – the zombies get to be pretty darn boring. SCO, the zombie that wanted [...]
