  CAOS: High Performance, Effecient, Community Linux |
An innovative design focusing on efficiency and performance, CAOS starts with a lean core and extends to a robust and streamlined, powerful operating system. Our industry experienced developers were inspired by the need to create an operating
system combining efficiency with serious power that maintained the constant ability to recreate itself. This focus on high
performance and scalability in our build model translates all the way down to our system management and user interface,
making CAOS not only the distribution of choice for clusters, servers, and appliances, but also a solid choice for graphical
desktop workstations and the latest laptops. CAOS Linux is based on the best aspects of GNU/Linux, designed to run out of
the box on all x86_64 and i386 based hardware. |
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NEWS |
November 24 , 2008
Announcing the formal release of Caos Linux NSA 1 for x86 and x86_64!
The Caos team of developers and contributors from Infiscale are proud to announce the public release of Caos Linux NSA version 1. Caos Linux is a community-managed and openly-maintained distribution of Linux focusing on areas where Linux naturally leads and excels: high performance computation (HPC), servers (especially LAMP and general Web), and custom appliances (such as file servers and firewalls).
This release identifies the stabilization and validation of the core operating system, fully tested on some of the world's fastest public and private systems and architectures.
While Caos Linux NSA signifies a new focus in Linux distributions, it also represents a return to what got people involved with Linux in the first place. It is built using known standards and good practices of the open source community with the end users' input and needs taken into consideration. Features are never held back or forced in solely for monetary reasons; technical decisions are always made by technical people for technical reasons. Caos is clean, simple, solid, and fast while still maintaining the level of stability and resilience demanded by enterprise and high-performance computing.
Many distributions no longer focus on the core competencies that always made Linux so proficient, choosing instead to emulate Windows on the desktop and commercial Unix vendors on the server at the same time. In stark contrast to these diametrically opposed goals, the Caos core operating system has been tuned using very large and tightly-coupled HPC cluster systems. Careful tweaking and optimizations have resulted in a very streamlined, lightweight operating system still suitable for a large spectrum of uses, from simple desktops to petaflop supercomputers. Future development also includes a release for embedded systems.
Download Caos NSA 1.0:
64 bit: http://caos.osuosl.org/Caos-NSA-1.0/install/x86_64/caos-nsa-1.0.x86_64.iso
32 bit: http://caos.osuosl.org/Caos-NSA-1.0/install/i386/caos-nsa-1.0.i386.iso
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August 3, 2008
Visit Infiscale at Linux World Expo 2008 in San Francisco!
Infiscale will be hosting a booth at this year's Linux World Expo in San Francisco at the Moscone Center from August 4th to 7th. Come join us in the .org section, booth #17, where we will be demonstrating the latest CAOS NSA, Perceus 1.4 (imbedded on the motherboard using Intel's Rapid Boot technology), and a preview of Abstractual, Infiscale's cloud computing VM solution. So come and visit us to demo our latest offerings and meet and speak with the Infiscale team and our guest vendor representatives about how Infiscale technology can enable your HPC, grid, cloud, and enterprise computing needs.
We'll also have cool booth giveaways, including a grand prize of an Intel mini-cluster (two independent nodes in a 1U enclosure) for one lucky visitor that checks us out, so be sure to make it and not miss out on all the LWE excitement! |
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May 7, 2008
Hear the Stateless Provisioning with Perceus talk at Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference in Oakland!
Infiscale's CTO Greg Kurtzer will be giving a talk entitled Stateless Provisioning with Perceus at the Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference on Tuesday, May 13th. Come listen and learn how the energy-saving stateless provisioning of Perceus can provide benefit to your HPC project. Don't miss the chance to have your Perceus questions answered in person by the man who knows Perceus best! |
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April 2, 2008
Infiscale featured at Intel Developer Forum 2008 in Shanghai!
Infiscale software was featured as a live demo in Patrick Gelsinger's Opening Keynote today, From PetaFLOPs to MilliWatts, demonstrating Perceus and CAOS NSA achieving 512 threads on a cluster of 64 Intel Nehalem DP processors. Visit Intel's Press Kit for IDF 2008 for presentations, transcripts, and video from the event. See the attractive twin-rack 32 server Super-micro cluster controlled by Perceus in the video of the Keynote by following the Webcasts & Podcasts link to Patrick Gelsinger's 'English slides' link in the Day 1 Keynotes. (Cue video to 50:30 for Infiscale feature.) |
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