RED HAT, NASA TEAM ON BEOWOLF TECH CD-ROM PRICED UNDER $30 (fwd)

["Richard H. Fifarek" <rfifarek@som.siu.edu>]

RED HAT, NASA TEAM ON BEOWOLF TECH CD-ROM PRICED UNDER $30         05.15.98
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  Research Triangle Park, NC -- Red Hat Software, Inc., publishers of the
Red Hat Linux Operating System, announced what they refer to as the $29.95
high performance computer.

  Called Extreme Linux, and also known as The Beowulf Project, this
collaboration between Red Hat Software, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
and over two dozen leading research centers will bring the speed and power
of multiple computers--parallel processing as one computer--to students,
researchers, and end-users worldwide.

  Extreme Linux is perhaps the most effective example of how the
cooperative software development model that has produced the award-winning
Linux OS results in better technology at a revolutionary low-cost.

  About parallel processing and the collaboration with NASA, Red Hat
Software president Robert Young said, "The potential of parallel processing
has been widely discussed from the dawn of the computer age, but the
implementations that have appeared to date have been so expensive, and so
diverse, that there simply have been no standards or even commonly accepted
practices. For all that Red Hat's involvement in this project has been the
opportunity to do something very "cool," this Extreme Linux CD-ROM product
does represent the first opportunity to develop the necessary critical mass
of developers behind a single set of techniques and methodologies for
parallel computing on the lowest-cost most widely available range of
computing equipment possible."

  Building a computer cluster with the OS and tools that are included in
this $29.95 CD-ROM product will provide researchers with radical
improvements in the amount of processing power available to them for a
given dollar of investment.

  Having access to complete source code of these tools will allow the
students, researchers, and technical end users to understand this
technology at a level never before possible, resulting in a more effective,
higher performance computing platform.

  "Extreme Linux brings to end users the giant pool of engineers and
developers of the active Linux community. With this kind of research and
development, users have immediate access to all of the latest code and
tools developed as the project progresses." Said Don Becker of NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center "Working with Red Hat enables us to build the
development community behind the Beowulf technologies, and Red Hat's
commitment to the open development model is a huge benefit to the project."

  For more information about the Extreme Linux/BeowulfProject, visit
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html or
http://www.redhat.com/



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