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Open-source database vendor Greenplum had cause for celebration Tuesday, announcing both US$15 million in venture capital financing and the appointment of a new CEO.

The former manager of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s nonstop server division, Pauline Nist, has joined Penguin Computing Inc., a vendor of high-availability and high-performance Linux systems based in San Francisco. Penguin owns Scyld Software, publisher of the Scyld Beowulf clustering software for the open-source Linux OS.

Linux hardware and clustering vendor Penguin Computing unveiled a portable hardware and software Linux-based cluster system called the Portable Penguin on Monday. The company hopes the new desk-side system will appeal to executives looking for a computer that can run high-end data simulations and can also be wheeled elsewhere in their companies thanks to its castors.

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small. These were some of the conclusions and predictions of Don Becker, cofounder of the Beowulf clustering project and a significant contributor to the Linux kernel, as he attended the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco last week

Linux hardware and clustering company Penguin Computing is releasing two new blade servers in its BladeRunner family, the 4130 and the 4140, based on 64-bit chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) respectively. Penguin will be showing off the blades at the LinuxWorld show taking place in San Francisco from Monday to Thursday.

Attendees at the recent BioIT World conference got a first look at a powerful new Linux clustering package for supercomputing environments.

Linux vendors say they're gaining ground in the U.S. government, even though a session on open-source software in government drew a small crowd at the FOSE trade show in Washington, D.C., Thursday.

Red Hat plans to launch a major upgrade to its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system that will mark the first time the software has fully supported the Linux 2.6 kernel. The launch currently is scheduled to occur at an event that will coincide with the Linuxworld Conference & Expo in Boston next month, a spokeswoman for the company has confirmed.

Penguin Computing released its first Linux blade server system recently. The Linux-focused server firm is taking aim at larger blade server giants with a system it says is more dense than competing blade offerings.

Penguin Computing, which specializes in servers designed for Linux clustering and high performance computing, is bringing its expertise to the blade market and on Wednesday introduced BladeRunner.

As more companies explore the possibility of adding supercomputers to their IT stables, prices of the machines continue to fall even as their computing power and flexibility for business use is growing.