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 ...

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 ...

PolyServe added the automated collection of performance statistics to it Linux file server clustering utility. The company, which provides file server clustering software, enhanced its PolyServe File ...

Some time ago I setup a nice Linux HA cluster for the office. Its been tweaked and upgraded a bit over the years, and currently exists as a pair of Dell PE T310 Towers, each with Quad Core Xeon, 8gb ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

For a few years I have been trying to create a "distributed cluster storage system" (see below) on standard Linux hardware. I have been unsuccessful. I have looked into buying one and they do exist, ...

Russ Miller runs a monster of a server cluster that eats storage at an incredible rate. The bandwidth requirements alone on his 22TFLOPS system force Miller to look outside the storage box, so to ...

We ended last time after configuring our first unprivileged Xen domain. In this article, we complete our cluster and then test it using an open-source parallel ray tracer. The first thing we need to ...

A file server is a specialized PC that holds large numbers of files that many people on a network can access. It “serves up” files to everyone instead of each person having files on his or her own PC.