“IBM’s big plans for Linux are getting bigger every day. While
the Armonk, N.Y., company’s initial goal was to enable Linux on the
mainframe, it is now working to effectively cluster large-scale
Linux configurations. The result should mean more scalable and
reliable server and mainframe applications for such things as
e-mail, Web hosting and enterprise resource planning.”
“IBM has put Linux on a 512-node cluster under the LosLobos
supercomputer project at the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center, said Daniel Frye, director of
IBM’s Linux Technology Center in an exclusive interview with eWEEK
following IBM’s third annual Linux summit this week in Austin,
Texas.”
“Initiatives that allow [Linux] to effectively host 100 million
mailboxes and run huge backbones for mail systems are exciting for
us,” said Greg Olson, co-founder and chairman of Sendmail Inc., in
Emeryville, Calif. Sendmail uses an IBM Linux mainframe for
development and runs a host of Linux servers.”
“At the summit, we were able to bring people from across all
areas of our company — from the S/390 mainframes all the way down
to the ThinkPad — and they’re all talking about the same operating
system,” he said. “This spans everybody in IBM and is unlike
anything we’ve ever done.”