ZDNet Australia: Cost, Advancing Tools Foster Linux Clustering Choice

“Athwal, a computational scientist at the German company’s San
Diego division, said a supercomputer offered more processing power,
and its high-profile vendor promised a generous support plan. But
those benefits still couldn’t get the LION team beyond the price
tag.

“Besides, LION didn’t need more processing power than the 44
nodes. If LION needs more parallel processing power to run
bioscience software models and predictions, adding nodes is easy
with a cluster setup; it’s just a matter of a few more commodity
PCs. With the supercomputer solution, the company would have to buy
another supercomputer.

“According to Linux vendors and industry analysts,
cost-effectiveness is just one of several reasons prompting more
enterprises to choose Linux systems…”

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