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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Bjorn Andersson, Sun Microsystems' director of HPC and Grid computing, about what's going on with the company in terms of its Grid and HPC initiatives. Andersson discusses Sun's big customer win for its Sun Grid

As founder and chief scientist at VMware Inc., Mendel Rosenblum has been in the thick of the development of virtualization technologies. He recently spoke with Computerworld's Robert L. Mitchell and discussed how virtualization is changing the IT landscap

A single InfiniBand HCA card in each server and storage node is the only I/O adapter required to interconnect a highly scalable and reliable grid, as opposed to several multi-port Enterprise Gigabit Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs. InfiniBand I/O con

Solaris 10 has experimental support or can at least be installed on almost any VMware version, but VMware doesn't provide a VMware Tools package for Solaris 10. This page provides an implementation of vmware-guestd, vmware-toolbox and vmware-user for Sola

Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary “system reconfiguration” required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machi

VMware is proud to announce the Beta availability of Virtual Machine Importer 2.0, the latest desktop utility for IT professionals and software developers/testers working with virtual machines. VMware Virtual Machine Importer (VMI) is a freely available,

VMware ESX Server provides strong security and performance isolation for virtual machine storage. Each virtual machine sees only the virtual disks that have been presented to its virtual SCSI adapters. Virtual machines cannot see the physical Fibre Channe

gile software development, which aims to offer a much quicker style of delivering software than traditional methods, has not yet met its promise, Steve McConnell, author and chief software engineer at Construx Software Builders, told the the SD West 2006

Red Hat has announced the beta release of RH Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5), which will now include virtualisation.

Red Hat's strategy is to help customers methodically drive costs out of infrastructure. Virtualization technology can help customers lower costs by optimizing and increasing utilization of computing systems. We designed the Virtualization Resource Center

Profiling is a technique for measuring where software programs consume resources, including CPU time and memory. In this article, software architect Andrew Wilcox explains the benefits of profiling and some current profiling options and their shortcomings

The /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem that permits a novel approach for communication between the Linux® kernel and user space. In the /proc filesystem, virtual files can be read from or written to as a means of communicating with entities in the

Exclusive Sun Microsystems has promised a great deal with its futuristic "Rock" processor line but, thus far, failed to back up the promises with any technical details on the chip's design. That situation changes now that The Register has obtained exclusi

The OpenIB project that steers the development of InfiniBand technologies, has broadened its scope and merged with the OpenRDMA project.

Longtime readers of my work know that I believe that IT exists for one single reason—to provide access to applications for end users. As little as ten years ago this was relatively easy. All we had to do was install the applications on the users’ comp

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Fstress is a synthetic, flexible, self-scaling NFS file service benchmark whose primary goal is flexibility. Fstress exports control over several dimensions in both data set and workload, enabling a wide range of tests for fundamental evaluation of file s