Radio Free HPC Looks at the Need for Better Resource Management in Linux

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bubbleIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC teams looks at Henry Newman’s recent straw proposal for better resource management for Linux in HPC. His Enterprise Storage Forum column on this topic got Slashdotted recently, and the question remains: does Linux want to be more like the mainframe? Rich and Dan take him to task to learn more.

I think the time has come for Linux – and likely other operating systems – to develop a more robust framework that can address the needs of future hardware and meet the requirements for scheduling resources. This framework is not going to be easy to develop, but it is needed by everything from databases and MapReduce to simple web queries.”

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