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By: David Byte

November 17, 2016 2:10 pm

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Stacking the HPC Deck with HPE

SUSE partner HPE announced the HPE Core HPC Software Stack 2.0 this week during the SC16 show in Salt Lake City.  This release updates many core components including the HPE Insight Cluster Management Utility (CMU).  The CMU update improves the engine to support limitless HPC scaling. This carries significance, as it allows […]

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By: David Byte

November 15, 2016 8:35 am

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SC16: The voyages of SUSE Linux Enterprise

Exascale, the final frontier, these are the voyages of SUSE Linux Enterprise.  It’s continuing mission to explore strange new ideas, to seek out new approaches and new optimizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before... I'm sure the above is a dead give-a-way to the booth theme for the SUSE presence […]

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By: David Byte

November 10, 2016 2:16 pm

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Food for your brain

Every year, starting around the first of July, I spend many hours planning, designing, and coordinating the SUSE presence at the SuperComputing show.  I do this not because it is my official job, but rather because SUSE recognizes my passion for this market and allows me to express that through our booth at the […]

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By: David Byte

November 5, 2016 9:03 am

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Excellence in Performance Testing

I've spent quite a bit of time working with the group of folks (yes, I'm from the American South) over at Storage Review this year.  The primary goal was to take what we consider to be a solid configuration of HPE Apollo servers and present them as block and object storage from SUSE Enterprise […]

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By: David Byte

June 27, 2016 9:29 am

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SoftIron & openSUSE Help ARMv8 Developers Leap Ahead

One of the biggest obstacles to adoption of a new hardware architecture is the build out of the software ecosystem.  In an effort to support the build out of this critical part of the ARMv8 world, SoftIron released a new platform at the openSUSE Conference last Friday aimed squarely at the development community.  […]

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By: David Byte

June 6, 2016 9:35 am

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HPE – A single point of contact for SUSE Enterprise Storage Solutions

Starting today, June 6, HPE is providing their customers with SUSE Enterprise Storage based solutions on HPE Apollo and ProLiant servers.  These are truly solutions, rather than assembled packages with divergent support paths, as HPE will architect the solution, sell it, and field support calls, providing the single point of contact that is always […]

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By: David Byte

April 11, 2016 9:03 am

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Updated Ceph Recommendations

Periodically, it makes sense to revisit and update recommendations based on what we see in the field and what is happening with a project's code base.  This is one of those updates. In the past, we have recommended the use of two physically separate network fabrics to help better manage the I/O paths and […]

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By: David Byte

January 22, 2016 7:39 am

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Building Your Home Lab

Ok, I admit it, I am a geek.  I have enough hardware in my home lab to run a fairly good sized business if I so desired.  I thought others might appreciate having some of the information and ideas on how to build a lab on the cheap (or relatively so). First, we'll […]

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By: David Byte

November 11, 2015 3:47 pm

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SUSE @ SC15

Come see us in Booth #2042 Once again, SUSE is preparing an out of this world experience for the Super Compute show.  For those who have been by our booth in the past, you know we like to have a good time while sharing the SUSE story and helping our customers and partners be […]

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