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Oct 26, 2012- AMD/OpenJDK/Oracle explore use of GPUs
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- ASF Airavata
- Slackware 14 release
- Shuttleworth funds Inktank/Ceph
- New Apache toplevel project
- Zentyal 3.0 small business server reveals major release
- Keccak wins NIST
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more »OpenVAS The OpenVAS vulnerability scanner
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