Top storage predictions for 2008
News is mighty slow this time of year, but that doesn’t keep the stalwarts at Sun’s HPC Watercooler from soldiering on. Most recently they point us to IDC’s top 10 storage predictions for 2008. A few of the top slots:
Storage services models for data backup, archiving and replication will be more appealing to businesses.
New role-based storage systems will demand tighter integration between the storage layer and content-generating applications.
Vendors will build object-based storage systems to
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Daily Takeout for December 31
Chip manufacturers have long missed schedules and produced chips that only sometimes work as advertised. But, as big compute grows up and is adopted in departments and enterprises throughout the business landscape, it's time for the big compute vendors to create new business relationships with the manufacturers that spread the pain for broken plans throughout their supply chain.
Today's story was originally published at InfoWorld. You can read it here....
Dan Reed blogs again
Dan Reed (who recently moved from Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) to Microsoft) has started blogging again at the new location of www.hpcdan.org. Dan’s blogs have always delivered so much more than one expects from a typical blog, so this is a welcome return.
So, what do you do for a living? Let’s spread the word.
Jobs come and go, and I’ve had several in HPC. But my enthusiasm for the profession remains.
One thing I’ve noticed that we (as a community) are not very good at is telling people what we do for a living in a way that doesn’t cause them to run away screaming or ask if we can help with their mail merge in WordPerfect (seriously, and sadly, that last one happens to me routinely). In fact, I …
Daily Takeout
I've been pod silent for a couple month's now, but I've decided to try and bring the podcast back to life as a daily look at one or two short stories from the HPC news stream. If you like the new format, or hate it all to pieces, let me know. Send an email to john@insidehpc.com.
In today's show I talk about the Top 5 from the insideHPC archives for 2007. You can find more information ...
PCWorld: what AMD has to get right in 2008
Sumner Lemon writing at PCWorld ruminates on what AMD has to get right in 2008 to pull itself out of the slump its been in for much of the last half of 2007.
Over the next six months, there are several milestones that AMD must hit in order to get back on track. The first, and arguably most important, involves volume shipments of Barcelona, scheduled to happen during the first quarter. AMD desperately needs this
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insideHPC turns 1, and I forget to renew the hosting plan
Today is the day…the first post at insideHPC.com officially turns one today. My apologies to those of you who checked the site earlier this morning and found it was down. Seems I, uh, didn’t renew the hosting plan. Nothing says “party” like forgetting to pay the power bill.
We’ve come a long way from 1 reader. You guys have come to the site over 100,000 times over the past 12 months, and nearly half of those …
TACC Ranger video
Sun’s HPC community portal has a YouTube clip of an interview with Tommy Minyard and Kelly Gaither of TACC about Ranger.
Kelly and I were in grad school together…she’s good people.
(Tip o’ the hat to Sun’s HPC Watercooler for the pointer.)
Alternative delivery models for HPC?
BioIT World is running a piece today called “Alternative IT Delivery Models Emerge.” The article is short and its a standard “ditch your in house stuff and buy software as a service” article. I do think that this model makes a lot of sense in more instances than people are ready to accept right now.
But its reminded me of an idea I keep coming back to.
I think that there is a real chance that …
The insideHPC Top 5 for 2007
HPCwire readers may know that every week I write a summary of the items from the news stream that strike me as interesting in some way. This week’s issue is a little different. Since it is the last HPCwire of 2007, Michael invited me to spend some time reflecting on the year past. Rather than give you yet another pundit retrospective, I dug into the access logs on the insideHPC.com supercruncher and wrote up the …
