Credit: Nathan Van de Graaf / Thinkstock / Linux Support for Oracle database clustering and IBM’s Cell processor are among the new enhancements in the latest version of the Linux kernel.Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds announced the release of version 2.6.16 Monday in the kernel mailing list.The update includes a clustering file system from Oracle that is aimed to ease the management of Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) installations. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe Among the other new additions to the kernel is support for IBM’s Cell processor. The Cell processor, which IBM has developed along with Sony and Toshiba, is used in Sony’s PlayStation game console. IBM last month said it had also developed a blade server system based on the Cell processor that it is positioning for use in high-performance computing. The company believes it will have the greatest impact for applications that involve streaming data or image manipulation in such industries as medical imaging and life sciences. On tap for a future update of the Linux kernel is support for Sun Microsystems’ UltraSparc T1 chip, formerly code-named “Niagara,” according to the KernelNewbies website. The UltraSparc chip has eight cores, and each core can run up to four different threads, or processes. Sun Tuesday said it had released the source code for Niagara to the open-source community in an effort to spur development.On the security side, the latest Linux kernel update also includes several bug fixes, Torvalds said. -Shelley Solheim, IDG News ServiceFor related news coverage, read OpenVZ to Release Kernel of Suse Linux Enterprise 10.Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer for more updated news coverage. Related content brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development opinion CIOs worry about Gen AI – for all the right reasons Generative AI is poised to be the most consequential information technology of the decade. Plenty of promise. But expect novel new challenges to your enterprise data platform. By Mike Feibus Sep 20, 2023 7 mins CIO Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe