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The open source phenomena continues to confound several businessmen and economist alike. So we thought it might be constructive to point out that without several of the opensource tools listed below, some of which we support monetarily, our company could not do our job and provide the value we do to our customers. Though this does not explain how open source projects start, it does show how they can be maintained. Open source tools are used by a business as central enabling technology, this company supports the open source project with code, bug identification, money or all three. The project becomes stronger and gains a larger user base, and the cycle repeats.
Cluster Monkey - a great site to keep on top of Linux based HPC stuff
System Imager - a tool (part of OSCAR) used for provisioning hosts
OSCAR - a cluster build and administration tool
ROCKS - a cluster build and administration tool from SDSC
Scientific Linux - a distro targeted at Scientific HPC at the National Labs
CentOS - The recompiled RedHat Enterprise Linux
RedHat - The gorilla of Linux distros
openSuSE - The open source version of SuSE 10
Novell SuSE - Novells commercial SuSE
ClusterIT - A distributed toolset for cluster admin
gexec - Another ditributed shell tool from CalTech
pcp - Another distributed copy tool from CalTech
pydsh - A versatile distributed shell and copy tool in python
Ganglia - A cluster monitoring and time history display tool
MSC Nastran - The gorilla of linear FEA
ABAQUS - The most popular non-linear FEA tool
LS-Dyna - The most popular CRASH and forming tool
Fluent - One of the premeir CFD codes
STAR-CD - One of the premeir CFD codes
Top Crunch - Public benchmarks for LS-Dyna
NCBI Blast - The standard for genomics research
Paracel Blast - Now supported and developed by Striking Development, Inc
NWChem - Heavy duty computational chemistry
Amber - Quantum computational chemistry
Myth TV - Build your own TiVo on top of Linux
RequestTracker - Web based support ticketing system