linux in white papers
Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study
White Paper For local-area, storage-area, and system-area networks in support of networks of workstations, network-attached storage, and clusters, respectively, one can achieve over 7-Gb/s end-to-end throughput and 12- s end-to-end latency between... [10 Jul 2008]
Cluster Load Balancing for Fine-Grain Network Services
White Paper Another contribution is the design and implementation of a load balancing system in a Linux cluster that strikes a balance between acquiring enough load information and minimizing system overhead. This paper studies cluster load balancing policies... [10 Jul 2008]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Application Compatibility
White Paper The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product family provides a powerful, stable platform for third-party software application developers. This paper describes the different types of compatibility guarantees that are available to application developers... [09 Jul 2008]
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Double Daily Trades and Halve Hardware Costs
White Paper That is exactly what's happened since the CME initiated its migration from legacy Sun Solaris UNIX systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in early 2004. The CME chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux over rival Linux offerings because of Red Hat's proven... [09 Jul 2008]
QuickHelp 2.0: Help Authoring for Windows, Macintosh & Linux
White Paper QuickHelp 2.0 adds configurable actions, tables, parameters, default options, precompiled indexes and other performance enhancements making it 2 to 3 times faster than previous versions. Configurable actions include running an executable... [09 Jul 2008]
Pervasive Computing: e-Business Anywhere, Anytime
White Paper Combining the efficiency and power of Linux with IBM's state-of-the-art pervasive computing solutions, the authors take the user step by step through building a convenient PDA-based sales application. [09 Jul 2008]
Non-Shared Disk Cluster - A Fault Tolerant, Commodity Approach to Hi-Bandwidth Data Analysis
White Paper The prototype hardware consists of two small clusters of linux nodes (about 10 dual-CPU nodes), a few 100 GB local disk on each node. The STAR experiment, in collaboration with the NERSC Scientific Data Management Group is prototyping / developing... [09 Jul 2008]
Publisher Makes Most of In-House Expertise, Saving U.S.$197,600 Annually Over UNIX
White Paper After evaluating software options from both Red Hat Linux and Microsoft, Simon & Schuster deployed a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - based solution using Windows Services for UNIX. New York - based publisher Simon & Schuster wanted to upgrade its... [09 Jul 2008]
Migration to Windows Simplifies Bank's Payment System, Reduces Operating Costs
White Paper Jilin Credit posed particular challenges to the pilot, including a mixed environment of SCO UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows, as well as a plan to implement a number of updated, graphical applications in the future. [09 Jul 2008]
Building Ethernet Drivers on RTLinux-GPL
White Paper This paper describes how to port Linux Ethernet drivers to RTLinux-GPL (hereafter RTLinux). It presents an architecture that will let Linux and RTLinux to share the same driver while accessing an Ethernet card. [08 Jul 2008]
Access Over Ethernet: Insecurities in AoE
White Paper It has been developed by Coraid ("The Linux Storage People") as a SAN technology and it has been adopted for use by many Universities and US Government agencies. This paper investigates the insecurities present in the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. [04 Jul 2008]
Linux for the Accountant
White Paper This case study is about an accountant and how he has changed to Linux Mandrake for reliability. He uses Star office in Linux and is able to do all his work (except Tax Returns - for which he still has to use Windows). [03 Jul 2008]
Linux Databases: DB2 Vs. Oracle - Executive Summary
White Paper DB2 on Linux has demonstrated that it is more reliable than Oracle with its usage of simpler and more scalable clustering technology. Oracle is harder to use and costs more to install and administer. DB2 is also significantly less expensive to... [03 Jul 2008]
Linux and Choices: Open Source, Risk Management, and Vendor Value-Add
White Paper Linux is a rapidly evolving operating system platform and family of related technologies. Developers frequently ask MontaVista Software about the role of commercial vendors in the key areas of source code management, open source community processes... [03 Jul 2008]
Linux on iSeries
White Paper Linux has emerged as a key enabler for e-business across the enterprise. Customer acceptance of Linux is rapidly expanding and is widely used for Web serving and application hosting, to drive wireless devices and Internet appliances, and as an... [03 Jul 2008]
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