We read in the latest weeks two interesting news. The happy new comes, again, from Sun Microsystems: they unveiled their new architecture Constellation. They hope to go through the 2-petaflops barrier. The first experience with this new platform will be developed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Sun can now compete against IBM’s Blue Gene at the head of Top 500.
Via Jonathan Schwartz‘s and Marc Hamilton‘s blogs.
The sad new is about openMosix. It was an open platform reference in the clustering world because its easy-for-use clustering system. But founder and leader Moshe Bar announced the shutting down of the project. The main reasons are the lack of motivation to go on in a changing world because the new multicore machines.
As it was a free software project, openMosix can be developed even when it is closed. So, the market will decide.