Open Source Systems (OSS) has recently won a contract to provide a 2-node Dual AMD Opteron based High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster for the Malaysian Institute for Nuclear Technology Research (MINT). The 4-processor Linux cluster served as testbed for MINT in terms of using clusters for their research. The cluster has been installed with various physics applications such as FLUENT, Abaqus and Monte Carlo N-Particle.

Climate change is the most important issue we face when looking at our future way of life. The need to address our impact on the global environment has never been more urgent and the technology at the forefront of this battle is some of the most exciting and groundbreaking in the world today.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has been chosen to be the venue for the 7th Asia Open Source Software Symposium, it is co-organized by the Center of International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) and MIMOS Berhad with support from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia and Malaysian Administration Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) of the Prime Minister Department. The 7th Asia OSS Symposium hopes to further strengthen the International collaboration in establishing the concept of Asia OSS ecosystem among the members as well as initiating regional OSS initiatives and projects among Asian economies. The theme for the 7th Asia Open Source Software Symposium is "Towards Asia Open Source Software Ecosystem for Sustainable Development."

As part of a series of ICT Awareness programs aimed towards scientists and researchers, OSS was invited to present on the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies. Farul Mohd Ghazali and Alan Ng gave interesting talks on various areas such as hardware technologies and cluster management systems.

As we celebrate the arrival of 2006, Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd is pleased to announce that we now have a total of 5 certified Linux Engineers / Trainers.