"Earlier this week, one of our clients, a Tier 1 ISP, launched an object storage cloud based on OpenStack, an open source compute and storage framework created by Rackspace and NASA.
It's definitely not a fully fledged computer – there are limited I/O options, obviously – but it's a cute little tool for those who want to do a little open source computing.
GridGain is a Java-based open source computing infrastructure released under LGPL license.
No one stopped Linux from copying techniques and tricks used by Unix and, eventually, Windows, and the result is a deep and rich vein of open source computing prowess.
Advocates of open source computing regard the excessive use of software copyrights and patents by corporations like Microsoft as a restriction on the efficient exchange of ideas among programmers.
This paper presents an open digital mapping methodology, which utilises open data in an open-source computing environment, as a cost-effective method for mapping peat thickness and estimating carbon stock in Indonesian peatlands.
OpenStack is a six-year-old open source computing platform, originally conceived as a check to the growing power of Amazon cloud computing services.
The test bed will leverage Yahoo!'s technical leadership in open source projects by running Apache Hadoop — an open source, distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation — and other open source, distributed computing software such as Pig, the parallel programming language developed by Yahoo!
After 2001, however, the cost of bandwidth, processing power and storage dropped dramatically, and reliable open source computing stacks began to emerge, making it increasingly cheap and easy to launch web services.
Summarizing the key news: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers.
