I found this solution on ubuntu forum. It is very easy to download the sources and compilate your own version althought I agree it would be more transparent if somebody just uppdate the sources on synaptic.\n\nBut the kernel is quite often updated so instead of waiting I prefer to use this method

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JPPF is an open source Grid Computing platform written in Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude. Write once, deploy once, execute everywhere!

(tags: tools scalability programming processing performance parallel software framework java distributed)

Scaling Out

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NeverBlock is a Ruby library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner. Meaning that you will keep coding in your traditional ways while you get the benefit of non-blocking IO operations.

(tags: threading threads rubyonrails ruby rails programming performance nonblocking activerecord)

There still seems to be confusion about the relative simplicity or difficulty of deploying a Rails app using JRuby.

(tags: rubyonrails ruby rails jruby java howto glassfish deployment)

(tags: sharding scaling scalability db database shards storage best-practices advice)

In this paper, we show how to leverage largely commodity Ethernet switches to support the full aggregate bandwidth of clusters consisting of tens of thousands of elements.

(tags: scaling performance network architecture datacenter cluster scalability hardware)