Paris — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. today announced the availability of Lineo Availix Horizontal Clustering 1.3, a new clustering solution providing customers with performance for non-stop access services. Availix Clustering is based on the Linux operating system and provides the CompactPCI hardware architecture with an immediate, cost-effective solution for high availability, redundancy,… reliability and scalability.

Availix Horizontal Clustering 1.3 (Availix HC 1.3) is the Lineo solution for medium scalability of up to seven processors. The clustering solution is designed to meet the needs of ISP and telecomm companies concerning high-speed, secured transactions and information sharing.

Availix HC 1.3 provides the following capabilities:

• Support for high speed switched technology based on Fibre Channel
  
• Content sharing on a Storage Area Network (SAN) through Global File System (GFS 4.0.1)
  
• SNMP Mibs for administration and maintenance via remote access
  
• Oracle Parallel Server 8i using high speed CompactPCI bus on a multi-node configuration
  
• Zeus for HTTP performance and Real server for Audio and Video Streaming in addition to the Linux distribution
  
• Support for the new CompactPCI technology from I-Bus and SAN technology from MTI and Newnet

Availix HC 1.3 continues to distribute network-type services such as Web servers, SMTP, FTP, Radius, voice-over-IP or DNS, across a multi-processor system. Through the distributed architecture, Availix HC 1.3 services support a high workload without the risk of failure or CPU bottleneck issues. Users are able to hotswap redundant hardware components in a cluster without rebooting the entire cluster. These redundant components include the CompactPCI bus arbiter board, cluster controller board and the cluster node boards.

Lineo's Availix HC 1.3 is now available and sells for $2,000 per CPU board.

 
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