Lightweight Linux for High-Performance Computing
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Posted by Dana D Booze, Monday December 04 2006 @ 10:27AM EST
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LinuxWorld: While stock Linux is optimized for desktop and server tasks, a simplified version can speed up performance on the nodes of a high-performance comptuing cluster.
Linux has long provided an outstanding operating system for a wide range of users in a variety of settings. However, high-performance computing users, who must run applications on thousands of nodes, historically have faced challenges that Linux could not effectively address.
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