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Archive for July, 2007
From GridToday we learn that Evergrid has announced the beta of its Data Center Resource Manager
The software will feature server power management coupled with load balancing and live migration of multi-tier online applications from one server to another, without interruptions to in-flight transactions and without breaking client
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The University of Alabama announced yesterday that they’ve turned on a new Blue Gene/L. At 5.6 TFLOPS the new computer triples the computational resources previously available to university researchers. From HPCwire
“Blue Gene will help our researchers make breakthrough simulations of biological processes such as blood flow in arteries and capillaries around tumors,” said Dr. Richard Marchase, vice president for
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Since we’re apparently all about covering the super exclusive HPC-in-racing niche news market, here’s something cool.
McLaren builds supercars, and uses supercomputing to get the aerodynamics right. But dial the Wayback machine to 2005 when McLaren…
…appointed SGI as its official supplier for CFD supercomputing, storage and visualization equipment.
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From SC Online today:
The InfiniBand Trade Association and the OpenFabrics Alliance today announced that an InfiniBand Low Latency Technical Forum has been planned for September 17 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, in co-location with the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The technical forum will bring together members from these two industry associations, along with the
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Sun announced results yesterday for its fiscal 2007 year, and they look good. The company grew annual revenues by 6.2%, and increased its profit margin for the year by 2.1% over fiscal 2006. The company made $473M for the year, compared with a loss of $864M last year.
Sun had trouble with …
In this week's episode we talk about HP's rumored $1B takeover of French HPC hardware maker Bull, news from the week's second quarter financial reporting, new Intel technologies and the EU's charges of monopoly abuse in Intel's aggressive moves to quash competition from AMD. We also cover NASA's bid to build the largest shared memory supercomputer in the world, the markets, and much more.
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This is earnings season, so everyone is talking dollars. Here’s a roundup:
Voltaire has priced its 5.77M share IPO at $9 per (more)
Network hardware maker Mellanox made money in Q2 (more)
As did network company Qlogic (more)
Hardware vendor Rackable didn’t (more)
Storage vendor Isilon gets more customers (more) but is still losing money (more)
Network processor company Bay …
According to the AP the European Union has charged Intel with abuse of monopoly power to crush its AMD competition
The European Commission said Intel gave “substantial rebates” to computer makers for buying most of their x86 central processing units, or CPUs, from Intel.
It also alleged that Intel made payments to manufacturers to get them to delay or cancel product
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The Register has a short piece on the rumor we talked about yesterday.
Bull would fit in well enough with HP’s operations. The company has a strong position in the European high performance and high-end computing market. And, like HP, Bull has centered its top gear around Intel’s Itanium processor.
Nicholas Carr has a post today about a presentation Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie made to analysts yesterday in which he outlined the company’s utility computing future.
There are three stages to the process: physical infrastructure, software layer, and services. There’s the hardware:
As with Google, Microsoft is building its data centers out of huge numbers of cheap servers and other “commodity components,”
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You may recall that we reported a few weeks ago that Voltaire was planning an IPO, and that they thought the step might be worth as much as $100M US.
The AP is reporting this week that Voltaire is lowering its expectations a little, and now expects to walk away with $51.4M after expenses are paid (versus the $67.5M …
Reuters is reporting this morning that shares of French HPC vendor Bull are up over 10% today in European trading on Thursday
after an online report of French weekly capital.fr said U.S. computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard was preparing a 720 million euro ($994.3 million) bid.
…Capital.fr said HP had retained Morgan Stanley and Freshfields
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Peter Harsha over at the CRA’s Policy Blog has an update for us on appropriations activity in the House.
They will soon be marking up the Defense Appropriations Bill, and the chairman’s mark looks good for research so far:
We’ve gotten our first look at the funding levels for the Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation title of the bill in the
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HPC hardware startup SiCortex has announced [PDF] that they’ve closed a deal for $10M in venture debt from Hercules Technology Growth Capital to accelerate
production and sales and marketing efforts in response to demand for its products.
According to the announcement the company had taken $21M in financing in two previous rounds from Chevron Technology Ventures, Flagship Ventures, JK&B Capital, and …
Univa and Sun have announced [PDF] that they’ve signed a new agreement that allows OEM and support for Sun’s Grid Engine to be integrated into the Univa Globus Cluster Edition software, puts Univa into the Sun Partner Advantage Program (SPA), and starts co-marketing/co-sales efforts between the two companies.
“Univa and Sun are a natural match” says Fritz Ferstl, Sun Microsystems
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