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Digipede Technologies is one of the companies making supercomputing on Windows a reality for enterprise customers with big requirements but without all the specialize knowledge and resources HPC has historically demanded. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Digipede launched its flagship product at DEMO@15 in 2005. Digipede Technologies delivers grid

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HP announced today that the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is installing a 163 TFLOPS system focused on research in the environmental molecular sciences. At that size it likely would have earned the number two slot on the June Top500 list.

From the release

The new system will provide the high-performance engine to enhance research in

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I’m at the second day of IDC’s HPC User Forum today. Bo Ewald, SGI’s president, just said something I think is interesting

We will be back in the visual supercomputing business.

He bookended that by saying he wasn’t going to say anything else today, but that there would be more in the future.

UPDATE

Later in …

SanDisk, manufacturer of your favorite USB sticks, has announced that it will sell its solid-state 32GB SATA disks through select distribution parnters.  These disks were previously only available to PC manufacturers as a replacement for their standard, 2.5″ SATA laptop drives. [Read the full article here]

Now, I understand this has very little direct correlation with …

You might be interested in reading Ashlee Vance’s take on Sun’s x86 offerings. He’s enthusiastic.

The fresh Xeon-based servers from Sun mark the company’s most muscular play to date in the x86 realm. The four-socket 2U X4450, in particular, has Sun pushing the equivalent of a midrange SMP down into the heart of the so-called “commodity” market. This move plays

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From the “HPC needs a robust ecosystem of vendors” department, ClearSpeed also announced this week that they’re expanding into Asian markets.

First we’ve got a reseller agreement with Super Sonic Technologies

With offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, and expertise selling in to the automotive and financial markets, Super Sonic Technology and its network have a customer base of more

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ClearSpeed announced this week that Warwick University’s Digital Laboratory is using its gear in a Sun cluster for rendering

“Our team at Warwick Digital Lab is collaborating with ClearSpeed to enable interactive frame rates for high-fidelity, multi-sensory, ‘there-reality’ virtual environments for applications in healthcare, digital manufacturing, archaeology, and building design. To achieve this ‘realism in real-time’, we have selected the

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HPCwire reported this week that Tech Data is teaming up with Clustercorp to deliver turnkey HPC systems aimed at the enterprise and departmental market.

Since you likely haven’t heard of these companies, Tech Data is a Fortune 500 company that sells IT gear to SMB. It had $21B in sales its last full fiscal year. Clustercorp sells and supports clustering …

The first demonstration of a Quantum computing chip has been reported by two U.S. groups.

Separate studies reported by two groups in this week’s Nature journal suggest that could be possible. One is at the US National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, and the other at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, both in the

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Latin America’s largest shared memory supercomputer was recently purchased by Brazil’s Universidade Federal do ABC. UFABC was only founded in 2005 and opened last year. They have already purchased an Atlix 4700 system with 136 cores and 272GB of memory. They have also invested in 30TB of SGI InfiniteStorage.

We have some applications, mainly for materials science and

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Baylor University announced the $1.25 million purchase of a new Hewlett-Packard cluster. The new machine, named Kodiak, is directed toward the particle physics research lead by Dr. Walter Wilcox. Baylor also hopes that the new cluster will deliver enough compute to join the High Performance Computing Across Texas group [HiPCAT]. This will allow researchers at …

Clearspeed has announced a partnership with Sun Microsystems to deliver their Advance accelerator boards for Sun high performance computing applications.   Most recently, the marriage of Clearspeed and Sun yielded 48 TFLOPS at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Our partnership with ClearSpeed means that we can offer even better and more efficient performance to our customers”, Dr. Simon See, director of HPC

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SGI announced the inclusion of their latest NAS storage device to their line of InfiniteStorage products.  The NEXIS NAS family of storage devices is based upon their XFS file system.  Included in the package is the new SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager graphical user interface.

“SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS gets the best performance and value possible out of today’s

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Hot of the presses at HPCwire, the first of IBM’s newly revved Blue Gene line (announced in June), the BG/P, has gone on line in Germany.

The Garching Computing Center of the Max Planck Society (RZG) has announced the installation of the first IBM Blue Gene/P system. The system was contracted last year and is part of the replacement

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ByteandSwitch.com is hunting for the world’s five largest SANs. The list so far?

JPMorganChase
U.S. Department of Defense
NASA
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

DoD? Hey, that’s us! Not really…this is the enterprise side of DoD, not the HPC side, and it dwarfs anything we’ve got in HPC. It’s a meta-SAN

A key element of Meta SAN is its ability to tie together

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