The Roadrunner supercomputer developed by IBM for the Department of Energy at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is the first to take the Petaflops hurdle of 1.026 billion operations per second.

The Open Graphics project has released specifications for its first card and will accept orders at a price of US$ 1500.

Hardware specialist Intel and embedded systems manufacturer Wind River are aiming to put Linux on wheels. Both enterprises have announced their intention to release a jointly developed Linux platform for the automotive industry.

Many enterprises still rely heavily on mainframes, which makes it all the more difficult to get your hands on one and install Linux on it. The Hercules emulator gives you a full-fledged alternative.

After porting its Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and Workbench developer environment to Sun's multithreading capable UltraSPARC T2 processor, embedded specialist Wind River says that it has laid down the tracks for the development of high-performance network components.

Intel's 10GBit Ethernet adapters for servers can now run the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet connections.

Hewlett Packard has announced a 9” HP 2133 mini-notebook in line with the current MID boom.

The Brazilian election authority has announced that voting systems based on Linux will be used for the election later this year.