[Am-info] Re: Am-info digest, Vol 1 #1168 - 11 msgs
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>Today's Topics:
> 1. IT Advances Research On Climate.....Linux (Fred A. Miller)
> 2. Re: IT Advances Research On Climate.....Linux (Sujal Shah)
> 3. News: Microsoft stomps on Media Player bug (Fred A. Miller)
> 4. Sun backs rivals' security standards (Fred A. Miller)
> 5. AOL on edge of streaming breakthrough? (Fred A. Miller)
> 6. MS SQL Server OpenDataSource() overflow (Fred A. Miller)
> 7. SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD with StarOffice 6.0 - Now shipping! (Fred
>A. Miller)
> 8. Oh oh......better read this one. (Fred A. Miller)
> 9. I Told You So (Fred A. Miller)
> 10. gobeProductive 3.0 review on The Alternative (Paul Rickard)
> 11. Breaches of SEC Regulations (John Poltorak)
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>Message: 1
>From: "Fred A. Miller" <fm@cupserv.org>
>Reply-To: fm@cupserv.org
>Organization: CUPS
>To: "AM-INFO" <am-info@venice.essential.org>
>Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:49:33 -0400
>Subject: [Am-info] IT Advances Research On Climate.....Linux
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>IT Advances Research On Climate
>Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are breaking=20 new
>ground with their study of the Atlantic Ocean's effect on the=20 climate.
>The project got a boost 18 months ago when the=20
>university chose to run its data collection and analysis on a=20 cluster
>of Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux 6.2.=20
>This research couldn't be done without the right IT platform,=20 says
>Thomas Haine, assistant professor in the department of earth=20 and
>planetary sciences. Haine's Dell cluster consists of eight=20 Dell 2450
>PowerEdge servers with two P3 CPUs, 18 Gbytes of hard=20 drive, and 1
>Gbyte of memory each. Data is stored on each server=20 within the
>cluster, and the cluster is interconnected via two=20 networks. The Dell
>servers have a Fast Ethernet connection that=20 handles the copying of
>files and other general=20
>system-administration jobs. The cluster also has a faster Myrinet=20
>connection from Myricom Inc. that's used for high-speed=20 computations.
>Johns Hopkins considered systems from SGI Inc. and Sun=20
>Microsystems but ultimately chose Dell because of pricing. "The=20
>cluster was about $50,000, but we were never really presented=20 with a
>like-for-like comparison" with Sun or SGI, Haine says. "We=20 could have
>done this with Unix but wouldn't have gotten as much=20 for our money. I
>suspect we would have been looking at twice that=20 from Sun and SGI." -
>Larry Greenemeier
>For the full story, go to:
>http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=3DeHpj0Bce7K0V20BeoR0A8
>And for more, read:
>Choosing Linux Over Older Systems
>http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=3DeHpj0Bce7K0V20BemS0A7
>- --=20
>Fred A. Miller
>Systems Administrator
>Cornell Univ. Press Services
>fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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>Message: 2
>Subject: Re: [Am-info] IT Advances Research On Climate.....Linux From:
>Sujal Shah <sujal@sujal.net>
>To: AM-INFO <am-info@lists.essential.org>
>Date: 28 Jun 2002 16:01:07 -0400
>See, I knew there was a reason I went to school there.
>Sujal (who got his first exposure to Linux from his sophomore year
>roomate at JHU).
>On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:49, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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>> IT Advances Research On Climate
>>
>> Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are breaking
>> new ground with their study of the Atlantic Ocean's effect on the
>> climate. The project got a boost 18 months ago when the
>> university chose to run its data collection and analysis on a
>> cluster of Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux 6.2.
>>
>> This research couldn't be done without the right IT platform,
>> says Thomas Haine, assistant professor in the department of earth
>> and planetary sciences. Haine's Dell cluster consists of eight
>> Dell 2450 PowerEdge servers with two P3 CPUs, 18 Gbytes of hard
>> drive, and 1 Gbyte of memory each. Data is stored on each server
>> within the cluster, and the cluster is interconnected via two
>> networks. The Dell servers have a Fast Ethernet connection that
>> handles the copying of files and other general
>> system-administration jobs. The cluster also has a faster Myrinet
>> connection from Myricom Inc. that's used for high-speed
>> computations.
>>
>> Johns Hopkins considered systems from SGI Inc. and Sun
>> Microsystems but ultimately chose Dell because of pricing. "The
>> cluster was about $50,000, but we were never really presented
>> with a like-for-like comparison" with Sun or SGI, Haine says. "We
>> could have done this with Unix but wouldn't have gotten as much
>> for our money. I suspect we would have been looking at twice that
>> from Sun and SGI." - Larry Greenemeier
>>
>> For the full story, go to:
>> http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHpj0Bce7K0V20BeoR0A8
>>
>> And for more, read:
>> Choosing Linux Over Older Systems
>> http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHpj0Bce7K0V20BemS0A7
>>
>> - --
>> Fred A. Miller
>> Systems Administrator
>> Cornell Univ. Press Services
>> fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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