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I just had a thought: I’ve had a big spike in RSS feed subscribers over the past couple days, and it occurs to me that some of those new subscribers might have thought they were getting in line for the super swell buttons we’re offering here at insideHPC.

It was my plan to offer the buttons to email, not RSS, …

Interactive Supercomputing announced today that its Star-P product now supports Python, an open source, high-level programming language (see entry at the Wik). From the release

Star-P 2.5 for Python is an interactive parallel computing platform that enables users to code algorithms and models on their desktops using Python, but run them

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Altair Engineering (makers of PBS Pro, Hyperworks, and other tools) is talking today about

its new software business model to enable the first on-demand computing software environment that tackles the challenges of multi-core processor licensing. In response to industry changes, Altair’s innovative and patented software licensing model for PBS ProfessionalTM allows

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Platform released news today about the lastest update to its Symphony platform for the financial services industry. Symphony 3.1 now supports up to 4,000 processors per application on grids of up to 20,000 processors. This release doubles the max processor count applications can support.

According to the Symphony product page

Platform Symphony

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According to SeekingAlpha today:

Microsoft Corp. will unveil a coffee table shaped touch-screen computer at a technology conference Wednesday. Called Microsoft Surface (pictured), the computer will forgo the usual convention of keyboards and mouse devices in exchange for Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ vision of more natural human-computer interactions using touch and voice.

Forbes.com …

According to a story in The Register Rackable’s executive purge continues with the dismissal of Todd Ford, the company’s former Executive Vice President, effective last week.

According to the regulatory filing, Ford walks away with 12 months of continued salary ($350,000 US) and health insurance, and accelerated vesting for his stock options. According to the article at The Register …

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Canadian-based Liquid Computing is announcing today

that its LiquidIQ server has demonstrated world leading results for the STREAM Benchmark for 4 socket Second-Generation AMD Opteron processor-based servers. Using the latest AMD Opteron processors Model 8220 from AMD, LiquidIQ’s Compute Modules can provide more than 20,000 Megabytes per second on all of the STREAM Benchmark Bandwidth measurements, which exceeds the

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Forbes.com’s Business Wire is carrying a piece from Celoxica, an FPGA-based accelerated computing solutions manufacturer.

At the AMD Torrenza Initiative seminar this week, Celoxica (LSE:CXA) presented results of an oil-exploration algorithm customer benchmark, achieving 28x performance improvement on a forward wave migration algorithm. In addition, Celoxica presented a financial analysis that showed a consistent 10x return on capital invested on

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Because I have the ability to peer into the future, I know that on May 29th Linux Networx will announce

the immediate availability of it’s second generation LS-V High Performance Visualization System, providing the ability to render very large simulations in real time and delivering insightful results quicker and more efficiently than ever before. The enhanced LS-V delivers a system

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Last week News.com carried this bit of tid about the move to 32nm:

IBM, Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics will join forces to develop and manufacture chips using 32-nanometer circuitry elements, the companies said Wednesday.

The alliance partners, which also include Infineon Technologies and privately owned Freescale Semiconductor, will work through 2010 to design, develop and produce the advanced-generation chips that

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No, this isn’t HPC, but I thought you might care anyway. From Dell last week:

Dell today made it official, unveiling three consumer systems — the XPSTM 410n and DimensionTM E520n desktops and the InspironTM E1505n notebook — with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed.

Every day lots of supercomputers get upgraded, and its a crap shoot as to whether or not I cover those upgrades here. Usually there has to be something interesting or new about the upgrade or the machine’s application.

Or you can house your machine at a place called “Indooroopilly” — it is my pledge to you that I will bring you …

via HPCwire

Swiss DALCO, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of high-performance computing solutions, has doubled the computer power for Alinghi, Defender of the 32nd America’s Cup. The supercomputer was designed and custom-built by DALCO to meet Alinghi’s demand for increased computer power to best evaluate the latest design developments, to simulate their effects and to adapt and integrate

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via HPCwire

A new forecast from IDC predicts

…high-performance computing (HPC), scale-out database environments, shared virtualized I/O, and increasing demands from financial applications will propel worldwide InfiniBand host channel adaptor (HCA) factory revenues from $62.3 million in 2006 to $224.7 million in 2011. Additionally, factory revenue from InfiniBand switch port sales is expected to grow from $94.9 million in

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