The Weekly Takeout, insideHPC.com's summary of all the best news from the past week, is up for the week ending June 30. In this week's episode we cover the big news from the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
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In what has been a stunning response to getting kicked in the pants, I got two emails today with more pictures from the insideHPC.com first ever button-palooza (click the thumbs for big pics).
An anonymous reader from LBL (in my head I call him Steve) sent me this pic of the buttons in his cube.
By the way, Microsoft updated their CCS web site sometime over the past couple weeks. Looks a lot spiffier, and is jam packed with information that someone is updating regularly.
Request: please (please?) add an RSS link for CCS news and updates so I don’t have to load the web page every. Single. Day. Please. And that goes for the …
AMD has announced a firm ship for Barcelona: it will start moving out the door to systems manufacturers in August, with systems sporting the chip not really showing up in quantity until late September or on into October. Both standard and low power versions will be available.
AMD had announced the chip …
Melissa over at the CRA’s blog points out that that big cyber security report we’ve been hearing so much about (well, I’ve heard about it twice in 6 months) is out.
Um…that’s a pretty all-ecompassing headline. We mentioned at the beginning of the week The Register’s scoop on the upgrades to the IBM System Cluster 1350 line; they’re confirmed in this release.
Today IBM updated the System Cluster 1350 to include IBM multi-core processor-based BladeCenter and System x servers, IBM System Storage and networking
HPCwire is carrying news from UK software company Allinea that they’re bringing their parallel debugging tool to Windows for CCS users:
With the growing adoption of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for high-performance computing (HPC) applications, Allinea Software today announced a collaboration with Microsoft that will result in advanced parallel debugging
Martin Banks has a great piece on a good use for the Top500 list: as a lens through which to observe the democratization of supercomputing.
This is a theme I’ve talked about much over the past several years, and it’s one of the reasons that (as a dyed-in-the-wool big iron biggot) I’m still excited about the entry of Microsoft into …
I am pleased as punch (that’s right people, punch!) to post the first pictures from the insideHPC.com first ever button-palooza (click the thumbs for big pics).
Alexander Petrov sent me these snaps of his dog — and our buttons on his shirt — from Rybinsk, Russia (which is here, according to the
Of course I’m talking about those wonderful gnomes slaving away in the Green500.org mountain, shining up their list of the computers that deliver the most FLOPS for your watt.
The first full list is due out at SC’07. I like the logo.
Not to be outdone in the “we’re making clusters easier to build” department, Intel has announced its own cluster deployment initiative. The Intel approach appears less end-user centric than Cluster Resources’ recently announced Escalante product.
Intel Cluster Ready is a program and technology that helps simplify the deployment, usage and management of
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