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Hewlett-Packard (HP) Wednesday rolled out software aimed to simplify the management of its BladeSystem blade servers running Linux, said the company.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is to buy RLX Technologies as a way to provide better systems management for HP blades running Linux, the company announced Monday. The deal is part of HP's strategy to plug holes in its enterprise management product portfolio via acquisition.

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.

Perhaps the decision to name its flagship product after a fictional shipwrecked traveler who spent almost 30 years trapped on a small island was not the best of omens for Transmeta.

Server blade manufacturer RLX Technologies at LinuxWorld in NYC in January announced built-to-order server clusters for high-performance computing.

Two years after vendors began introducing slimmed down "blade" computers as the next stage in the evolution of the server, these denser, more power-efficient servers have been struggling to meet market expectations and prove that they have what it takes to emerge as an industry standard.

IBM and Intel have decided to make blade servers together: The two companies announced a partnership Tuesday that could shake up the competitive landscape for some of the server world's freshest technology.

At a gathering of open source software developers, two leading researchers involved with the sequencing of the human genome delivered presentations citing the benefits of open source both in the development of computer systems and in science.

An assortment of Linux distributors including Caldera International Inc., Turbolinux Inc., and SuSE Linux AG on Thursday intend to announce a group strategy to take on leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. in the open-source software market, according to sources familiar with the plans.

Some of the IT world's top luminaries gathered here at Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday to witness the unveiling of a compact supercomputer that proponents say could provide the model for high-performance computing systems in the years ahead.

Intel on Tuesday launched its second wave of processors aimed at low-power consumption blade servers.