They might have called it “supercomputing for dummies.” The National Computational Science Alliance released a set of network-software tools last month that can be installed with a few simple steps.

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

Touted as frameworks for component-like network software tools, they were theoretical successes but practical failures. All too often, customers discarded NMS, in favor of management software bundled ...