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High-Performance Computing (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal looks at HPC,
past and present. "Will Linux clusters stay in the HPC niche? Big
vendors are putting their money on "no". Oracle is dropping UNIX boxes
for cheap racks of generic machines. Penguin Computing acquired
Beowulf-originator Donald Becker's cluster company, Scyld. Dell and IBM
will sell you turnkey clusters with service contracts--maybe not with one
click from the Web site, but close."
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Will Linux clusters stay in the HPC niche? ....no????... Posted Oct 11, 2003 14:58 UTC (Sat) by wa1hco (subscriber, #3628) [Link] Sounds like the rest of the article says, _yes_. I don't understand the point from the sound bite.
Will Linux clusters stay in the HPC niche? ....no????... Posted Oct 11, 2003 18:41 UTC (Sat) by fLameDogg (guest, #11305) [Link] Sounds like the rest of the article says, _yes_. I don't understand the point from the sound bite.Agreed, it is confusing. It only makes sense once one reads the article and sees the context: to paraphrase, will Linux clusters stay in the HPC niche but fail to penetrate business computing, the way (according to the article) all HPC predecessor systems have done. Note that the question there seems to be not "will Linux fail in business" but "will Linux clusters become a relevant technology for business computing"?
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