Lustre Vendors Consider File System's Future HPCwire (blog) After a near-death experience at the hands of Oracle, the Lustre file system and its place in high performance computing now seems assured. Vendors like Whamcloud, Xyratex, Terascala, Cray, DataDirect Networks, and others have created a critical mass ... See all stories on this topic » |
A look at Intego Internet Security Barrier X6 for OS X CNET (blog) The firewall warning will also show you where the program is residing on your filesystem so you can quickly access it if needed (useful for tracking down potential malware). The reverse firewall can be configured for each application on a per-port ... See all stories on this topic » |
IU Team Demonstrated 100GbE Network Technology at SC11 HPCwire IU's SRS entry, "The Data Superconductor: An HPC cloud using data-intensive scientific applications, Lustre-WAN, and OpenFlow over 100Gb Ethernet," used the Lustre file system and cutting-edge network infrastructure to address challenges created by the ... See all stories on this topic » |
Product roundup: Scale-out NAS meets unstructured data challenge SearchStorage.co.uk EMC enhanced its Isilon scale-out NAS platform with 3 TB enterprise-class hard drives and now provides up to 15 PB of capacity in a single Isilon file system. And in June, EMC Isilon announced it had submitted benchmark tests to the Standard ... See all stories on this topic » |
Red Hat alert RHSA-2011:1465-01 (kernel) LWN.net (CVE-2011-2699, Important) * A signedness issue was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS (Common Internet File System) implementation. A malicious CIFS server could send a specially-crafted response to a directory read request that would result in a denial ... See all stories on this topic » |
It's a first-to-file system: how does that impact my practice? Lexology (registration) Indeed, the AIA substantially redefines the scope of prior art and establishes a “First-Inventor-to-File” (FITF) system. Though more akin to foreign “first-to-file” systems, the FITF system includes substantial differences that are highlighted ... See all stories on this topic » |
Windows 8 gets faster installation, 11-click upgrade for casual users Ars Technica It will also dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to upgrade systems loaded with lots of files and applications. In addition to the simplified setup, a separate (and more complex) process will be available to those who want to dual-boot ... See all stories on this topic » |