Evergrid DCRM in beta
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 or file connections. This level of functionality has not been commercially available until now.
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Blue Gene triples power at UAB
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 research and economic development at UAB. “A computing facility anchored by Blue Gene will also
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SGI: the official supplier of HPC to McLaren F1
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. McLaren’s initial purchase included an SGI Altix supercomputer, visualization solutions, SGI InfiniteStorage system and the
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IB Low Latency Technical Forum
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 broader InfiniBand community. The technical forum will include presentations and collaborative sessions that examine latency
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Sun exceeds targets
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 products revenue, which fell over a percentage point during the year, but did well in …
Weekly Takeout for July 28
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....
The Friday money potpurri
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 Networks closes new venture round (more)
EU charges Intel with using kickbacks to crush AMD
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 lines using AMD chips and that it sold its own chips below average cost to
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More on the HP/Bull aquisition rumor
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.
Microsoft’s utility transformation: “very, very big deal”
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,” both to keep costs down and to “achieve reliability through redundancy.” Over the last year,
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