Hands-on Linux training at SHARE
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| The class was three sessions long, accounting for most of the conference day.
| Attendees were given access to the zSeries mainframe at IBM's booth on the
| expo floor, on which they could create virtual machines and install Linux.
| The first time through, participants installed the Marist College
| distribution, a minimalist 2.2-series distro that was the first public
| release of a complete Linux kernel for the z architecture.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118630
Rain or Shine, IBM Supercomputer to Power Official Weather Forecasts for
Beijing
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| The 80-node IBM System p575 employs leading edge POWER5+ microprocessors, and
| can deliver peak performance of 9.8 teraflops -- or trillion operations per
| second.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070816/0291367.html
Open Source [Primer]
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| "You can see the nuts and bolts and make changes to better suit your needs,"
| he says. "When running the Linux operating system, for example, you can
| completely remove the graphical interface if you want, freeing up system
| resources like RAM, processor time and hard drive space for other things."
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http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-techlede0816.artaug16,0,2861904.story
Related:
Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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| There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
| of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
| always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
| fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
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