“This is the conference that attracts the best minds in industry, academia and government and our attendees know they will gain insights into the future of high performance computing technologies and how they will affect everything from scientific discovery to product development to education,” said Scott Lathrop, SC11 General Chair.

Puppet Labs, provider of open source systems management solutions, announced the release of Puppet Enterprise, the first commercially supported version of Puppet.

The open source company Likewise announces that Johns Hopkins University will use Likewise Enterprise for Education to integrate the university's Linux and Mac computers using Microsoft Active Directory.

Red Hat announces its Deltacloud portal/aggregator is now part of the Aeolus project.

"Pandora is one of Gluster's top five deployments and offers a modern data center solution that provides flexibility, seamless growth, with 'pay as you grow' scalability," says Jack O'Brien, VP of marketing at Gluster.

Oracle releases their virtualization product, VirtualBox 4.0, which is available for both enterprise and home use.

Avian 0.4 is a portable virtual machine (VM) that utilizes subsets of Java's features.

libguestfs 1.8.0, a library and tool set for virtual machine (VM) disk image management.