"For a while now, IBM has had multiple and competing tools for managing AIX and Linux clusters for its supercomputer customers and yet another set of tools that were used for other HPC setups with a slightly more commercial bent to them. But Big Blue has now cleaned house, killing off its closed-source Cluster Systems Management (CSM) tool and tapping its own open source Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit (known as xCAT) as its replacement."
IBM's future Power7 chip may be just about done as far as the engineering is concerned, and its server designs might also be more or less completed as well. But there is plenty of time yet to tweak the boxes, and I doubt very much that the final packaging and pricing for the future Power7 machinery is anywhere close to being set. Which is a pity, really.
Virtual Bridges partners with IBM and Canonical for Microsoft-free “Desktops in the Cloud” This groundbreaking partnership combines the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, with the IBM suite of enterprise-class applications and services, including Symphony, Sametime and Notes, together with Virtual Bridges’ end-to-end, top-to-bottom pure Linux-based VDI offering, VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment).
In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It was a good couple of years before they were spotted at the Web 2.0 conference, for example. However in the case of Internet of Things, IBM is proving itself to be an unusually early adopter.
xCAT is a scalable distributed computing management and provisioning tool that provides a unified interface for hardware control, discovery, and OS diskful/diskfree deployment. xCAT has been deploying and managing large Linux systems since 1999. Many IBM customers and others have enjoyed its powerful customizable architecture long before other management solutions came into existence. Now xCAT 2 is open source on the xCAT sourceforge web site, so you can use it with confidence and participate in making it even better.
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HPSS is software that manages petabytes of data on disk and robotic tape libraries. HPSS provides highly flexible and scalable hierarchical storage management that keeps recently used data on disk and less recently used data on tape. HPSS uses cluster, LA