“Trying to capitalize on what it sees as a growing trend among
both small and large companies, IBM on Monday will unwrap its first
set of prepackaged Linux clusters for use on its PC-based line of
Netfinity servers.”
“The IBM Solution Series for Linux Clusters are best-suited for
those companies carrying out scientific or technical research as
well as for those dot-coms that may need to rapidly scale their
systems to meet unexpected business demand, company officials said.
They think it is ideally designed for tasks involving the
management of infrastructure workloads such as Web serving, e-mail,
and file and print sharing….”
“IBM officials said the new clusters, which are available in
configurations of 8, 16, 32, and 64 nodes, will support versions of
Linux from Caldera Systms, Red Hat, SuSE, and TurboLinux.“