Well, Yellow Dog is no longer the darling Linux for Apple machines since the latter company switched to Intel Core and Xeon processors for its PCs and servers a few years back. And Terra Soft doesn't exist any more, after it was acquired by a Japanese company called Fixstars in November 2008.
But Yellow Dog is still digging in the back yard to find a cool spot to lay down, and this time around it's playing with Nvidia's CUDA programming environment for its Tesla family of GPU co-processors. Fixstars says that it has rolled up a special release of its Linux, called Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA, optimized to take better advantage of the Nvidia GPUs to handle calculations. Fixstars is not new to the idea of creating tools to make use of co-processors. Terra Soft was the official Linux for the "Cell" Power-derived processor created by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba - Yellow Dog was certified to run on Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles and on blade servers made by IBM and Mercury Computer that were based on the Cell chips.
Full Story: Yellow Dog Linux licks CUDA - Register
But Yellow Dog is still digging in the back yard to find a cool spot to lay down, and this time around it's playing with Nvidia's CUDA programming environment for its Tesla family of GPU co-processors. Fixstars says that it has rolled up a special release of its Linux, called Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA, optimized to take better advantage of the Nvidia GPUs to handle calculations. Fixstars is not new to the idea of creating tools to make use of co-processors. Terra Soft was the official Linux for the "Cell" Power-derived processor created by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba - Yellow Dog was certified to run on Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles and on blade servers made by IBM and Mercury Computer that were based on the Cell chips.
Full Story: Yellow Dog Linux licks CUDA - Register
