The Gelato federation will develop Linux software specifically designed to run on Intel's 64 bit Itanium chip, focusing on areas like biotechnology, grid computing and security. Both Gelato members and the wider open source community will...
The move will make it easier for Rocks users to add Itanium systems into clusters that use the other chips, according to Philip Papadopoulos, program director for the San Diego Supercomputing Centre's (SDSC) grid and cluster computing group.
The workshop is sponsored by Microsoft. On Wednesday, Horst Bräuner, the civil servant responsible for implementing the migration, revealed the tactics used to get the council workers of Schwäbisch Hall onside.
OSDL also publicised the story on Wednesday, providing some counterweight to Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign, which has funded research reports and sponsored advertisements to promote Windows at the expense of its rival Linux.
Mark Taylor, the executive director of the Open Source Consortium (OSC), which is one of the organisations involved in the initiative, said the UK public sector is lagging behind other European countries in terms of open source take-up, but...
A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email to up to 40,000 school pupils and teachers. Carmarthenshire County Council, which provides internet and email facilities to 15 secondary schools and 125 primary schools...
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