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Startup Level 5 Networks believes it can solve the growing problem of inefficient Ethernet connectivity with its EtherFabric network card and software. Emerging from stealth mode Monday, executives at the 50-person company also talked up their ultimate ambition for EtherFabric to ship with every server sold worldwide, directly positioning their offering against current iWarp and InfiniBand interconnect technologies.

The U.S. Army has tapped IBM to provide a high-performance computing system using Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), in a project that aims to create one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

SuSE's new Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 for the Itanium processor was recently chosen to be one of the cogs in the TeraGrid project. TeraGrid is a distributed grid computing initiative run by several government institutions and educational research facilities, including the NCSA, the San Diego Supercomputing Center and Argonne National Laboratories.

SuSE Linux AG on Tuesday announced it has been selected to contribute to the development of the TeraGrid, a series of interconnected clusters, which will allow thousands of scientists to share computing resources over a network focused on breakthroughs in the life sciences and other technical markets.

A handful of research bodies around the world published record network speed results on Monday, showing a huge boost in the flow of data across both wide area networks and between local systems linked closely together.

The improving scalability of Linux, the low cost and increasingly high power of Intel Corp. hardware, and the license-free nature of open source software could add up to big savings for large corporations looking to bolster their data centers.

Sandia National Laboratories' Curtis Janssen needed an inexpensive and fast technology to cluster the Intel Corp. servers in his laboratory, which were used to run high-performance computing applications. When he heard about InfiniBand, the new high-speed bus technology, he decided to evaluate it as a replacement for slower, more expensive and proprietary clustering technologies the lab had been using to create supercomputer clusters.

High-speed interconnect technology from Quadrics Supercomputers World Ltd. used to create large server groups will now work with Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors, Quadrics announced this week.

Dell Computer and Red Hat expanded an existing Linux services arrangement Tuesday, as the two companies continue their push to move customers off Unix-based servers from the likes of Sun Microsystems and onto Dell systems running the open source OS.

The US Department of Defense (DOD) Friday has plans within the next few months to install a 512-processor Linux cluster that's supposed to be able to process 478 billion calculations per second.

IBM Corp. on Tuesday took the wraps off it first prepackaged Linux cluster offering, a set of hardware and software that will be aimed at businesses running technical and scientific applications, as well as fast-growing dot-coms in need of a scalable Web ations, as well as fast-growing dot-coms in need of a scalable Web server.