Los Angeles, CA; CT Expo — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. today announced it has entered into an OEM partnership with VMIC, a leading provider of embedded computer products for open architecture buses including CompactPCI. Under terms of the partnership, VMIC will license Lineo Availix high availability clustering for use on VMIC CompactPCI systems.

VMIC is partnering with Lineo to provide a CompactPCI-Linux solution that meets the demands of ISPs, ASPs and telecommunications companies for scalable computing power on a highly available platform. Combining the Lineo Availix clustering software and Lineo HA Arbiter hardware with VMIC's CompactPCI system technology provides an ideal platform for e-mail, web serving and other server-based Internet applications. The Lineo HA Arbiter board features redundant hot-swappable arbiter logic to synchronize clocks of all boards and coordinate access of peripheral boards to the bus.

Lineo Availix clustering software includes a load balancer, cluster manager/monitor and hot-swap manager and controller monitor, offering several powerful features for configuring, monitoring and administering Linux clusters. Lineo will provide Availix for VMIC's complete family of CompactPCI systems that utilize high-performance Intel Pentium processor-based single board computers.

 
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