A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux Wars continue: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux Association (watch for upcoming episodes on @HPCpodcast on this); China’s tech companies place $5 billion of orders on US chips; Intel improves hardware for on-chip AVX (or APX) vector instructions; 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Finalists also point to TOP500
HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
August 14, 2023 by
CIQ Names 5 New VPs
August 1, 2023 by
RENO, Nev., August 1, 2023 — CIQ, a company building software infrastructure for enterprises running data-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution — has expanded its leadership team, announcing today the addition of five seasoned veterans who bring not only deep experience and passion for the technology industry but also a wealth of […]
CIQ Launches New Rocky Linux Support Partner Program
July 21, 2023 by
RENO, Nev.—July 20, 2023— CIQ, which builds software infrastructure for enterprises running workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, announced today the launch of its CIQ Partner Program. The company said the launch reinforces CIQ’s partner-first channel strategy as the company aims to deliver its suite of solutions and services to organizations worldwide that […]
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Elects Project Boards for Rocky Linux, Peridot
March 10, 2023 by
RENO, Nev.—March 10, 2023—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today announced the inaugural projects and project boards that will initiate the work of the foundation. The officially hosted projects—Rocky Linux and Peridot—were named and respective project boards were elected on January 16 at the first annual meeting of the newly elected RESF board. The elections […]
iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Mini R Appliance with Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE
February 22, 2023 by
SAN JOSE, February 22, 2023 – iXsystems today announced TrueNAS SCALE “Bluefin” 22.12.1, the latest release of its Linux-based Open Storage platform, and the availability of the new TrueNAS Mini R storage appliance. Recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), TrueNAS open storage solves the limitations of traditional storage and offers the choice […]
SAP Announces Partnership to Expand Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
February 2, 2023 by
WALLDORF, GERMANY AND RALEIGH, N.C. – February 1, 2023 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. today announced an expanded partnership to increase SAP’s use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This collaboration aims to enhance intelligent business operations, support cloud transformation across industries and drive holistic IT innovation, the […]
CRN Recognizes Hammerspace as a Cloud 100 Company for 2023
January 30, 2023 by
SAN MATEO, Calif. – January 30, 2023 – Hammerspace, the pioneer of the global data environment, today announced that CRN magazine has named Hammerspace to its annual Cloud 100 list. This list honors the 100 Coolest Cloud Companies for 2023 across five key categories: infrastructure, monitoring and management, storage, software and security. CRN’s Cloud 100 list spotlights technology […]
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Approves Bylaws and Charter for Open Community Control of Rocky Linux and Projects
November 10, 2022 by
RENO, Nev.—November 10, 2022—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization’s governing structure and rules for hosting open source projects, including its namesake project, Rocky Linux. The charter and bylaws also describe the RESF vision to create and nurture a community of individuals and organizations that are committed […]
How the HPC-AI Rocky Linux Server Operating System Rose from the CentOS Ashes
September 27, 2022 by
[SPONSORED CONTENT] CentOS disappeared in the dead of winter. On December 8, 2020, the day with the earliest sunset of the year in northern latitudes, Red Hat announced it would no longer support the Linux server operating system, and for many CentOS users “what instruments we have agree the day of (its) death was a dark cold day.” If you were an advocate of CentOS Linux, you knew all about it. You knew its traits, its ways, its bugs, its quirks. You knew its personality. You knew how to tease the best out of it, and how to avoid….
Tachyum Prodigy FPGA Running Applications in Linux Interactive Mode
May 3, 2022 by
LAS VEGAS — May 3, 2022 –Tachyum Inc. today announced it is running applications in Linux interactive mode on Prodigy FPGA hardware with SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) Linux and the floating-point unit enabled on the FPGA prototype of its Prodigy Universal Processor. This latest key milestone showcases Prodigy’s advanced level of maturity spanning its advanced CPU core, […]
