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Microsoft has fixed a container escape bug dubbed FabricScape in the Service Fabric (SF) application hosting platform that let threat actors escalate privileges to root, gain control of the host node, ...

The dawn of high-performance computing came in the 1970s with the development of the Cray 1 and other custom-built supercomputers running proprietary operating systems. The early 1990s saw the use of ...

Linux Networx, a Linux cluster vendor, announced last week that The Eurocopter Group has installed one of its clusters at its German engineering location to allow them to more efficiently manipulate ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>At my work we are doing some fairly heavy structural FE analyses using ANSYS and LS-DYNA on the PC platform (WinXP). While some dual processor capabilities are present in these ...

Microsoft this week disclosed a serious container-escape vulnerability in its widely used Azure Service Fabric technology, which gives attackers a way to gain root privileges on the host node and take ...

In the age of digital transformation, the uptime and continuous availability of systems are paramount for businesses across all sectors. High Availability (HA) clustering has emerged as a critical ...

The Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster from Sun Microsystems to increase its data processing power and run the oil major’s reservoir ...

How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering. As part of his post-doctoral research at MIT, Vikram Kuppa, a Ph.D ...

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has installed a Linux cluster from Linux Networx Inc. as a pilot project to help it decide whether it should use the open-source ...