World's Largest Linux System Image Achieved on SGI Altix 4700 Blade Servers

Silicon Graphics today announced another high-performance computing first: the world's largest computer to operate under a single copy of the Linux OS. On its SGI Altix 4700 blade platform and a beta version of Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Ver. 10, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) demonstrated a single system image (SSI) running on a world-record 1,024 processors breaking a prior record of 512 processors, also held by SGI. The system is now installed in Munich, Germany, at the Leibinz Rechen-Zentrum (LRZ) centre. LRZ houses Germany's National Supercomputer System, and the Altix 4700 installation marked the completion of LRZ's Phase I deployment.

Read the press release here.

Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin for May

Fedora Unity has released the Fedora Core 5 Re-Spins for May 2006. These are DVD ISO Re-Spins of Fedora Core 5. These ISOs are based upon Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of May 23rd, 2006. They are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures.

The Re-Spin task has been taken up by Fedora Unity to provide the Community with the chance to install Fedora Core with recent updates, which might otherwise be several hundred megabytes of downloads, already included. The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and release often, with new Re-Spins provided early each month during the life of each Fedora Core release until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy.

See http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/unity-respin5-20060523/

My page at GooglePages

As I am sure many of you have heard. Google are now offering a simple way to create web pages without needing to know HTML and CSS called GooglePages.

I though I would give the site a try. Here is Gary's page on GooglePages for your delight!

Thanks,

THP

A look at the FreeNAS server

The newsforge.com people have published another article of mine. This time on the FreeNAS server.

You can read it at A look at the FreeNAS server

Thanks,

THP