Dell rolls out Open Cluster 5

Dell and Platform Computing, a provider of high performance computing (HPC) management software, have rolled out the next edition of their open source parallel cluster management tools, Open Cluster Stack 5, states The Register.

The announcement comes just a few weeks after commercial Linux distributor Red Hat stole a little thunder by announcing its own bundle of RHEL 5 and OCS 5 that it hopes will give it more than a toehold in the HPC space.

Dell and Platform have been partners for years and, as HPC became a strategic area for Dell in 2005, the company partnered with Platform to bundle its open source Rocks management tools.

SourceForge.net, a provider of open source code and applications, has unveiled an open source service for developers that provides virtualised access to open source applications, says Read Write Web.

With the new hosted application service, users can install an application in their own Web space. The SourceForge team then takes over, managing the application in a secure Web space and performing maintenance including updates and patches.

Ross Turk, director of community at SourceForge, says: "Developers can be much more productive when they don't have to worry about maintaining their infrastructure, and this new offering allows them to use the tools they know and like without the burden of maintaining them."

Envizions Computer Entertainment has scheduled the Mirrors Evolution 1.0 for release on 18 November, reports The International Business Times.

Mirrors Evolution is a commercial open source application that provides next-generation applications such as gaming, VOIP, storage, cloud computing, game development, social networking and multimedia applications.

The Mirrors Evolution was designed on a modified version of Fedora 8 operating system and, while new features will be available, Envizions says it will retain the original Fedora features.