Top500.org has published one more time the list of the 500 world’s most powerful supercomputers. And once more, Linux is the operating system with the strongest presence in these machines.
98’8% of supercomputers run Linux, and the remaining 1,2% run Unix.
This list is published twice a year and the last six rankings had Tianhe-2 in the first position. This supercomputer was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology
oVirt and VMware have been the focus of our blog during last two weeks. The most read articles are related to UDS Enterprise integration with oVirt and VMware vSphere.
In case you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read these posts, below you can find the links so that you can keep up to date with the most outstanding virtualization and Open Source news according to our followers:
Video: UDS Enterprise & oVirt VDI
oVirt‘s team has recently announced version 3.6, featuring interesting innovations, such as tech previews of Docker integration and Debian & Fedora 22 support.
The article about this new version published at Red Hat Open Source Community blog highlights UDS Enterprise as a 100% compatible software with oVirt.
The Linux Foundation has recently announced Open API Initiative (OAI), a project that will extend the Swagger specification and format to create an open technical community within which members can easily contribute to building a vendor neutral, portable and open specification for providing metadata for RESTful APIs.
This open specification will allow both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the respective services with a minimal amount of implementation logic. The Initiative will also promote and facilitate the adoption and use of an open API standard.
The very same week Fedora 23 is going to be released, the Fedora Project has announced Fedora Developer Portal, a website to help developers working on projects with Fedora as main operating system or inside a virtual machine.
In this new portal they’ll find the guidelines to get an install development tools, language runtimes and databases. They will also learn different distribution and deployment options using COPR and OpenShift.
The most read topics in our blog during last weeks have been Apple‘s decision about not renewing VMware‘s license agreement for server virtualization, UDS Enterprise & Nutanix Acropolis integration and Free Software Foundation 30th anniversary.
Find below the links to our top 3 posts according to our followers just in case you didn’t have the chance to read them yet:
Apple bets on Open Source & moves from VMware to KVM
