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Philippine Weather Service Finds Forecasting Cheaper with Debian Linux Cluster

by Vivek Gite on March 14, 2008 · 0 comments

Yet another Linux success story; From the article: The Philippine government’s official weather service, PAGASA, has replaced its SGI supercomputer with a clustered Debian Linux system that can process information vital to protection against typhoons, floods, droughts, tsunamis and other wild weather conditions at a fraction of the cost. The cluster includes eight PCs running [...]

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List of open source cluster management systems

by Vivek Gite on September 21, 2006 · 0 comments

M. Shuaib Khan has published a list of open-source cluster management systems. Personally, I had used openMosix and Red Hat Cluster software (which is also based upon open source software funded by Red Hat). From the article: In computing world, the term “cluster” refers to a group of independent computers combined through software and networking, [...]

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