The 411: Supermicro
Super Micro Computer, Inc. is a motherboard manufacturer that’s expanded into systems and support infrastructure for servers. Here’s the 4-1-1.
Who: Established in 1993, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) emphasizes motherboards based on Intel’s x86 architecture, plus complete server systems utilizing Intel’s Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon microprocessors, as well as AMD’s Opteron processors.
What: Two Supermicro products are primarily of interest for high performance computing applications. First, …
9th Annual Beowulf Bash at SC07
The details for the 9th annual Beowulf Bash were recently released on [you guessed it], the Beowulf mailing list. The event will take place in Reno, Nevada alongside the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference. The event is intended to be a very casual, social atmosphere between community attendees. The event details are as follows:
When?: 6-8PM Tuesday November 13.
Where?: Third Street Blues [125 West Third Street, Reno, …
SGI: getting the “G” to stand for “graphics” again
Remember when I reported from the HPC User Forum last month that CEO Bo Ewald had just told the audience that SGI was getting back into the visual supercomputing business? My favorite quote:
It was really stupid for the company to stop doing visualization types of things.
Well, I know a little birdy who’s at IEEE Vis this week. He ran into the SGI engineer in charge of developing their next generation graphics platform. This is …
ClearSpeed grows presence in TSUBAME [UPDATED]
ClearSpeed announced today that they’ve been awarded an order to supply X620 accelerators Tokyo Tech for use in its Molecular Dynamics Simulation Acceleration System known as TSUBAME.
“As a next stage in the increased quality of service to our HPC users at our GSIC center at Tokyo Tech., we are procuring additional ClearSpeed acceleration cards from Nissho Electronics,” said Professor Satoshi Matsuoka of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Tech. “This was
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Platform buys Scali Manage
Platform announced today that it has scooped up Scali Manage from Scali.
While the use of clusters and grid infrastructure is on the rise, the integration and management of these systems remains complex. Products such as Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS)* and Scali Manage have been developed specifically to improve performance, simplicity, and lower the support cost necessary to operate a HPC infrastructure. With the acquisition of
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Intel out early with new Penryn
The Daily Tech reported yesterday that Intel bumped the release of its new high end 3.0 GHz 45nm quad-core Penryn processor. TheQX9650 is a process shrink of the Core 2 Duo architecture, width additional L2 cache and SSE4 instructions added for good measure. According to the Daily Tech
The QX6950 features 12MB of L2 cache, a 1333 MHz front-side bus and a 130W thermal envelope.
The QX9650 will remain Intel’s halo processor for the better part
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NERSC Names New Director
The Department of Energy National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center has named a new director. Dr. Kathy Yelick, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, will succeed Horst Simon as director of NERSC. Dr. Yelick earned her PhD in computer science from MIT and has served as a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley since 1991 with a joint research …
SDSC returning to service
My latest contact with SDSC’ers indicates that the facility was unharmed during the recent fires, and the center is beginning to resume operations.
As of 10/26 the center had returned its Blue Gene to service. More here.
Bull Acquires French HPC Integrator Serviware
Back in July it was rumored that HP was to acquire Bull, it’s fall now and the rumors are no longer in bloom. With the French government bailing out Bull in 2004 it appears that Bull is on the mend, their recent acquisition of Serviware, Bull is in a healthy state and is investing significantly HPC market.
With this acquisition, Bull will provide Serviware with the
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DICE Program Award Selects Obsidian Research
Obsidian Research has announced that its Longbow XR product line has been selected for a Data Intensive Compute Project [DICE] in researching long-haul Infiniband technologies. Professor DK Panda from Ohio State University [of MVAPICH fame] in conjunction with the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will perform the study.
This DICE project is an ideal opportunity to
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