It seems that Linux is everywhere you look these days. Among enterprise,
desktop, even wireless users, Linux's versatility and portability have
rapidly made it the operating system of choice. At academic institutions in
particular, Linux is quickly becoming the Lingua Franca through which
researchers investigate and collaborate, and Linux-based clusters have become
a prerequisite for many modern research environments.
However, as use of Linux clusters becomes more widespread and the
applications run on them become more complex, more and more researchers and
engineers are running into a fundamental problem: As Linux is scaled to
higher processor counts to support the most challenging HPC applications
(such as those involving highly complex mathematical models, numerical ... (more)