06/27/2003 —

Great news: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the winner in the Software Stack/Distribution category of the first Excellence in Clustering Technology awards at ClusterWorld Conference & Expo, held at San Jose, California.

The Excellence in Clustering Technology awards program, presented in conjunction with Linux Clusters Institute, is the first industry effort to recognize the many breakthroughs in clustering technology that have reshaped the IT landscape in recent years. The awards represent major areas of innovation in the clustering market for GRID, HPC and HA computing.

"The Excellence in Cluster Technology awards are the new industry standard for innovation in clustered systems," said Adam Goodman, CEO of QuarterPower Media, publisher of Linux Magazine and producer of ClusterWorld Conference & Expo. "These products and companies represent the very best solutions available to customers who require clustered systems. The developers should be applauded for their accomplishments."

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 provides performance and high availability

After the recent success of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server at Oracle Application Standard Benchmark (OASB), achieving the highest performance results in a HP server cluster configuration and the highest Linux results in a single-server configuration with an IBM xSeries server, the latest award once more proofs the high performance incorporated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 combines maximum reliability and performance with an unprecedented scalability across all significant hardware borders. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is also certified and validated for central enterprise applications such as mySAP.com and IBM DB2.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server's optimized kernel 2.4.19 enables high availability solutions and the high-performance interaction with storage systems in the SAN by means of asynchronous I/O, multipathing memory access, and the management of up to 600 physical hard disks. Load balancing and the O(1) scheduler are responsible for the optimum balancing of the computing capacity in the network.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 is the only server system worldwide that boasts a uniform code basis for all significant hardware platforms. In addition to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for Intel and AMD 32-bit and 64-bit processors, Enterprise Server 8 is also available for HP ProLiant servers, HP Itanium 2-based servers, Fujitsu Siemens Primergy servers and the entire IBM eServer series (xSeries, iSeries, pSeries, zSeries) - This makes the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server the perfect platform for consolidating heterogeneous server structures and significantly reduces system administration costs.

For more information on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, please visit the product websites.

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Novell, Inc
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