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Archive for December, 2007
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
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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.
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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.
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 …
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 on the stories I cover at http://insidehpc.com/2007/12/21/the-insidehpc-top-5-for-2007/.
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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
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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 …
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.)
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 …
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 …
The computational mathematics program at Arizona State University has just been awarded a $1 million grant to fuel undergraduate research projects from the National Science Foundation. The program will initially target juniors majoring in computational mathematical sciences in order to offer them experiences involving climate forecasting, environmental fluid dynamics, math biology applications and efficient supply chain models. The second year …
After the initial salvo of stories of SGI suing ATI, all has been quiet as both sides went through the discovery process. The Inquirer has published a story revealing that a reluctant Dell has been dragged into the litigation. Dell apparently wanted to stay out of the legal fracas, but has been served a subpoena to …
Interactive Supercomputing Corporation develops Star-P, a software platform that is delivering interactive parallel computing power to the desktop. Here’s the 4-1-1.
Who: Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) launched in 2004 to commercialize Star-P, an interactive parallel computing platform. With automatic parallelization and interactive execution of existing desktop simulation applications, Star-P merges two previously distinct environments
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From Intel yesterday
Intel Corporation has released a software initiator package to drive the development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solutions for the Linux* operating system. FCoE is a proposed specification that will allow Fibre Channel SAN traffic to run over Ethernet. By consolidating LAN and SAN traffic onto a single fabric,
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In what I hope will be an increasing trend among all vendors, Microsoft is taking a lesson from Sun’s solo presence in new media* to talk about its HPC products. They’ve got video up on the famous Channel 9 site covering job scheduling and RDMA in HPC Server 2008.
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