Webkit Open Source Project

According to the WebKit Open Source Project website, WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications.
 
The lightweight browser midori is another example

# aptitude install midori

Moving HPC Applications to Cloud - The Practitioner Prospective

This is a very good summarise presentation by Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Grid Dynamics on some of the issues and challenges we will face when we unify Cloud and HPC into HPC-Cloud.

Read this: Moving HPC Applications to Cloud - The Practitioner Prospective

Implementation of HPC as a Service - the Shanghai Supercomputer Center

The Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC) was founded in December 2000. It is the first high performance computing platform open to the whole public in China and currently is the country’s leading supercomputer centre.......

Read more on HPC as a Service from Scientific Computing World

10GE Switches as viable consideration for HPC Interconnect

Take a look at this whitepapers on the tremendous inroad Ethernet has made to contest IB for the HPCC market

1. 10 GE Fabric Delivers Consistent High Performance for Computing Clusters at Sandia National Labs (Results from Sandia CBench benchmark tests demonstrate higher throughput using compared to statically routed InfiniBand)
2. Are we there yet? 10Gb Ethernet for HPC
3. Experiences with NFS over IB and iWARP RDMA

Yahoo! to open source floating its "internal serving" cloud

This article taken from The Register titled "Yahoo! to open source floating Google-Amazon crossbreed"

Early next year, Yahoo! intends to open source its internal "cloud serving" platform, described as something halfway between Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Google's App Engine....................

2 Storage Trends from SuperComputing 2009

This is an interesting articles about the rise of smaller storage vendors who is making wave with their storage innovation. An interesting read Two Storage Trends From SuperComputing 2009

Using Intel Compilers with Eclipse IDE on Linux

Intel has come up with a dated documentation on Using Intel Compilers with Eclipse IDE on Linux. Still useful to give an idea of how to integrate the intel compilers to Eclipse

Intel® C++ Compiler for Linux* - Using Intel® Compilers with the Eclipse* IDE [PDF]

Linux File System throughput performance

The articles from Linux Magazine

1. I Feel the Need for Speed: Linux File System Throughput Performance, Part 1 and
2. IOzone Performance Exploration, Part 2: The Rest of the Crowd (Almost)

are interesting writeup on throughput performance among the commonly and less-well known Linux file system. the benchmarking tool used is IOzone. IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. IOzone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.

Do take a look

The Google PageRank Algorithm

Curious about how Google PageRank your website, there is an excellent writeup on

1. What is Pagerank?
2. The Algorithm
3. How the Pagerank Calculator work
   
4. And more.....

Read http://www.markhorrell.com/seo/pagerank.html

A interesting article on the history, roadmap and architecture of xCAT

From Clusters To Clouds: xCAT 2 Is Out Of The Bag from Linux Magazine written by Egan Ford

Article on Red Hat Cloud Developments

A good article of Red Hat Cloud Developments. You can download some of the conference presentation slides from the Redhat Summit there as well.

EnFuzion3D 2009 enabling 3D Application in EC2 Cloud

EnFuzion® is the first commercial product on the market today to enable seamless rendering with major 3D applications in the Amazon® EC2 Cloud.

According to EnFuzion, it can supports major applications including Autodesk products, Adobe products vRay etc.

For more information read "EnFuzion3D 2009 Enables Resizable Image Rendering in the Amazon Cloud"

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