This past winter, Red Hat announced the release of a product called MRG–a computing platform that features high-speed messaging and allows high-throughput computing, realtime transactions, and workload management. Not sure what all that means? We weren’t either. So we contacted Bryan Che, the project manager for MRG, to see if we couldn’t get a few questions answered. He obliged, and so we bring you the MRG QandA. Still have questions of your own you want answered? Comment and let us know…
Red Hat has been working on the technologies behind MRG for quite some time–each of the components in MRG has had years of development. For example, Red Hat has been working on realtime technologies in the upstream kernel community for over seven years. Messaging has had a
similarly lengthy development history. Condor, the technology behind our grid scheduler, started development in the 1980’s!
We started work on these technologies because we saw the need for these capabilities, even if we didn’t know when or how we were going to bring
these technologies to market yet. For example, messaging is at the heart of enterprise computing. We had needs for messaging infrastructure at Red Hat–for building out our own capabilities around things like virtualization management. Many of Red Hat’s customers were asking us to provide an open source messaging offering. So, we started working on the AMQP specification and our messaging implementation, even though we didn’t know it was going to end up in something called “Red Hat Enterprise MRG”. » Read more
As you might have guessed from our book reviews, we like to read. And there’s no better time than during a hot, hazy summer. Not that these won’t do by a cozy fire or during a spring rainshower (so long as you’re inside). After all, books are pretty all-purpose companions. Whatever the season, when you feel the itch to hit the bookstore or local library, maybe you’ll take our suggestions.
Don’t see your favorite? Leave us a comment and let us know what you’ve been reading–just be sure to include author and title information, in case we just have to have it. And if you can’t get enough? Most of our editors can be found occasionally hanging out at Good Reads (it’s like heaven for bookworms). » Read more
We might be a bit busy these days, but we’re still keeping one eyeball on the tech topics that fascinate.
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We’ve got our party hats on ’cause it’s time to celebrate. Today, Red Hat announced the general availabilty of the newest member of the family, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. In case you somehow missed the big splash, we’ve got the highlights.
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One of the perks of working for the world’s leading open source company is the opportunity to rub elbows with some of the industry’s best and brightest. And since we’re big on sharing here at the Magazine, we strive to bring as many of these conversations to our readers as possible.
As long-time readers of the Magazine know, we’re big fans of science fiction writer and copyfighter Cory Doctorow. He was kind enough to dial in for an interview last year, and followed that with a rousing keynote speech at the Red Hat Summit.
This week’s office meme (pulled from digg, of course) has been the fifteen geek movies to see before you die. How do we stack up? Collectively, we’ve seen 14 out of 15. Pretty good for a tech magazine. In fact, one person (that would be me, thanks) has seen 14 of the lot herself, with the 15th (Brazil, in case you were wondering) already sitting in her Netflix queue. At #24.
Noticed a flurry of activity over here at Red Hat Magazine? If you’re subscribed to our RSS feed, you’ve noticed something this past month–new articles almost every week. And now we’re ready to go one step further–new articles just about every day.
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Welcome to 2007 and the first Red Hat Magazine of the year.
At long last, we’ve made the move to our new server. Its features will allow us to serve up more magazine, more often. You’ll be able to search more easily and subscribe to or review the topics that interest you. Plus we’re helping develop an open source project as we continue to publish and perfect our website. We hope you like it–and we know you’ll tell us if you don’t.
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When we talk about intellectual property rights and copyright at Red Hat, we’re usually talking about code–or music. The company ethos hinges on the idea that the free exchange of ideas will improve all things–from the education of children to the robustness of the kernel. Our focus is usually on technology. But not today.
Today we’re going to talk about knitting.
