HPC Up Close

Top Top-Like Tools

Admins solve problems ranging from slow servers to failing applications. The first tool I reach for when I need to check on a server with shell...

IBM Stops Making Chips

Big Blue peels off its manufacturing to keep the focus on software, cloudware, and intellectual property.

Student Custer Competition Call for Contestants

Annual contest lets students learn by designing, building, and operating a working HPC cluster.

Bash Tricks

The Bash shell is powerful and infinitely expressive. In this article we describe some tricky techniques you can use to enhance and customize your...

Spanning Tree Protocol

Ethernet is so popular because it simply works and is inexpensive. However, the administration side looks a bit more complicated: For the network...

Watson Takes on Science

IBM’s supersystem gives the research scientist encyclopedic knowledge of all papers written on a specific topic.

The Benefit of Hybrid Drives

People still use hard disks even when SSDs are much faster and more robust. One reason is the price; another is the lower capacity of flash...

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