“IBM today announced plans to port key cluster management and
file system software technologies from its SP supercomputer and AIX
operating systems to its Linux rack-mounted server line….”
“Being brought over to Linux from the SP operating system are
“parallel system support programs” (PSSP) cluster management
software and “general parallel file system” (GPFS) software, which
have been around since 1993. Both systems are already in IBM’s AIX
proprietary Unix operating system, but they will now receive
enhancements in AIX as well.”
“With the new features, IBM’s Linux users will gain the ability
to remotely power on or off individual nodes in a cluster, Gelardi
said, as well as the ability to add user IDs from a single console,
all at once rather than individually.”