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The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has installed a Linux cluster from Linux Networx as a pilot project to help it decide whether it should use the open-source operating system when it upgrades its high-performance forecasting equipment in the next three years.

A group of high performance computing users and technology vendors led by Sun Microsystems, Dell, and Intel will launch on Tuesday an effort to make the InfiniBand input/output architecture easier to use with Linux, according to companies involved in the initiative.

Virginia Polytechnic and State University is racing to deploy its new supercomputer cluster based on Apple Computer Inc.'s G5 desktops by Oct. 1 in order to make the next ranking of the Top 500 list.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US will build an Infiniband cluster using Apple Computer Inc.'s new dual-processor Power Mac computer with the 64-bit G5 processor, Virginia Tech said Tuesday.

Dell Computer, IBM and Sun Microsystems plan to build servers based on the high-speed InfiniBand I/O technology. Hardware from Dell and IBM is due to hit the market next year, and Sun servers will be available in 2004.

Don't write off InfiniBand just yet, experts say, as momentum behind the high-speed bus transport has merely slowed, not stalled.

Intel Corp. has cancelled its plans to sell chips for Infiniband products, a company spokesman confirmed Friday. One analyst said the move likely isn't a major setback for the emerging I/O technology, which is being supported by several other big vendors.