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whitepaper A Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors2007-03-05 XenSource
  This paper studies the enterprise readiness of hypervisor-based virtualization products from VMware and XenSource. Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this paper present comparative results from an assessment of XenSource's XenServer virtualization product family using industry standard benchmarks for performance and scalability.

Tags: Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Linux Sockets Acceleration: Maximizing Efficiency and Performance in the Data Center2007-03-01 NetXen
  The datacenter is undergoing a major paradigm shift driven by a need to scale up performance efficiently. Raw scale-out architectures are giving way to new scale-up architectures driven by blade servers, and multi-core host processors. Virtualization is driving server consolidation on these new platforms. In this paper, efficient networking for Linux is critical to the IT manager. Linux Sockets Acceleration provides a solution that delivers not only high performance but also processing efficiency that has not been seen previously. With its ease of use, LSA is an effective tool for IT managers to drive significant operational efficiencies into their datacenters in combination with other efficiency strategies. The cost benefits of LSA are significant and measurable.

Tags: Data Center, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper HP and Linux: Security Infrastructure for the Enterprise2007-03-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Linux is an open source product that offers a full range of security features and applications and has benefited by efforts of the computer security community to incorporate leading edge security. The Linux operating system offers unparalleled flexibility in providing choices of security policy so systems can be deployed with a security policy that fits the environment. Linux is used for highly secure applications in commercial and government environments. HP develops and supports information technology products including Linux to address security requirements for any commercial and public sector organization. Effective deployment of these products is accomplished by HP security practice professionals. This paper targets managers and system architects who may not be familiar with the extent of security features present in Linux.

Tags: Security Management, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Oracle Unbreakable Linux: An Overview2007-03-01 Oracle
  Oracle Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with industry-leading global support for the Linux operating system at significantly lower costs. The support program, which is available for any customer whether or not they're running Oracle, currently supports two architectures, x86 and the latest Intel and AMD chips, such as Xeon and Opteron (x86-64) as used by most of the Linux users. The program offers support for any existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations and for new installations of Oracle Enterprise Linux, an open source Linux operating system that is fully compatible - both source and binary - with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Tags: Linux Server OS, x86-standard Servers		   
whitepaper HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade Linux Installation White Paper2007-03-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  The HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade introduces the advantages of HP Integrity servers to the HP BladeSystem c-Class series technology. This paper describes how to install the supported Linux distributions on HP Integrity BL860c Server Blades. This paper describes how to install supported Linux distributions on HP Integrity BL860c Server Blades.

Tags: Blades, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper The MOSIX2 Management System for Linux Clusters and Organizational Grids2007-03-01 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  MOSIX Version 2 (MOSIX2) for Linux-2.6 is a management system for clusters and organizational grids. Its main feature is to make all the participating nodes perform like a single computer with multiple processors, almost like an SMP. In a MOSIX system, users can run applications by creating multiple processes, then let MOSIX seek resources and automatically migrate processes among nodes to improve the overall performance, without changing the run-time environment of migrated processes. MOSIX is implemented as a software layer that provides applications with an unmodified Linux run-time environment. Therefore, there is no need to change or even link applications with any special library.

Tags: Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Open Source Software's Expanding Role in the Enterprise: Companies Adopt Open Source as Standard2007-03-01 Forrester Research
  Open source has emerged as one of the more important IT trends in this young century. The application of open source methodologies has grown significantly in scope, as has its usage, over a relatively short period of time. In the study discussed in this paper, more than half the companies that are using open source are using in for mission critical applications. However, because there are differences between open source and commercial software, customers want their concerns about open source software addressed before they incorporate open source more completely in their IT portfolios. Forrester Consulting, under Unisys sponsorship, undertook an in-depth study of how open source software is being used in North America and Europe to better understand the important role it is playing in IT.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper A Practical FPGA-Based Framework for Novel CMP Research2007-02-20 Association for Computing Machinery
  Chip-MultiProcessors (CMPs) are quickly gaining momentum in all segments of computing. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded application development. To address this challenge, it is necessary to co-develop new CMP architecture with novel programming models. Currently, architecture research relies on software simulators which are too slow to facilitate interesting experiments with CMP software without using small datasets or significantly reducing the level of detail in the simulated models. An alternative to simulation is to exploit the rich capabilities of modern FPGAs to create FPGA-based platforms for novel CMP research. This paper presents ATLAS, the first prototype for CMPs with hardware support for Transactional Memory (TM), a technology aiming to simplify parallel programming.

Tags: Linux Server OS, Application Development		   
whitepaper Linux Distribution Testing and Quality Assurance: Current Developments of the EDOS Project and Open Questions2007-02-12 Mandriva Conectiva
  This paper describes the developments done within the EDOS project regarding Linux distribution testing and quality assurance process. It will also point out remaining open questions that could be subjects for further research and which could bring significant advances for Linux distribution developers. As the number of testing units (the distribution packages) is usually large (more than 10,000 packages for most of the distributions), the complexity of the testing task is huge and leads to either reduce system quality by accepting non-tested packages or delay final releases and increase overall system development cost.

Tags: Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Stack for Linux2007-02-06 University of North Carolina
  The IEEE 802.15.4 is a new wireless standard introduced for low power, low cost wireless communication with moderate data rates. It is intended to be used in embedded applications for home/office automation, industrial control and sensor networks. In such applications there is generally a need for a master controller, which will be responsible for data acquisition and communicate with other systems. Linux is gaining popularity as an embedded operating system. The developed software stack is easily portable to other hardware platforms and operating systems. The system is intended to be useful on research of various aspects of IEEE 802.15.4 standard.

Tags: Linux Server OS