Part one of a three part series describing the setup of a large Linux cluster. This part of the series covers Architecture, networking and management
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Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social network's computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned th
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MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in reven
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MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that pr
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The Semantic Web is well under way and could have an impact even greater than the Web that we all use every day, predicts Tim Berners-Lee, director o
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Brad Fitzpatrick, President and CTO of LiveJournal.com, has a very good presentation about LiveJournal's backend systems. The presentation has 80 sli
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The telecom industry is a highly competitive marketplace with low margins, forcing Operators and Service Providers to continuously look for new ways
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Matt Dillon [interview] posted the design synopsis of a new highly available clustered filesystem he will soon begin writing for DragonFlyBSD. The fe
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