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Linux Leaders Join HPC Devs on Open Source Framework

By Jack M. Germain
Nov 13, 2015
LinuxInsider
881 Words

The Linux Foundation on Thursday announced that it's forming the OpenHPC Collaborative Project to push the software supply to support high-powered computing. The project will provide a new open source framework to meet HPC's unique application demands and parallel runtime requirements, the organizat...

TECH BLOG

IBM’s Homeward Bound Linux PC Push

By Jason Z. Cohen
Aug 5, 2008
LinuxInsider
628 Words

IBM fired the opening salvo at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, and to the surprise of no one, it was aimed squarely at Microsoft. Sure, it was the low-hanging fruit -- Microsoft's an easy target. It's kind of like taking pot shots at John McCain at an Obama fund-raiser. But here, the amm...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

But Macs Are Slower, Right?

By Paul Murphy
Sep 30, 2004
LinuxInsider
450 Words

About a month ago, I compared the cost for Apple's desktop, server and laptop products to their nearest Dell equivalents and discovered that Macs generally cost less than comparable PC products. That was a bit of surprise, but the truly astonishing thing that came out of the comparison was that Dell...