Rocks Version 5.0 Goes Production
The Rocks development team has announced the latest production release of the the Rocks cluster management suite, version 5.0. The much anticipated release went beta on April 1. The latest version of Rocks adds two huge features, Xen virtualization support and fully programmable disk partitioning.
Currently, ISO’s are available for i386 and x86_64. For more info on this release and download links, read their official notes here.
NVIDIA to Sponsor Stanford PPL
NVIDIA has announced that it will be a founding member of Stanford University’s new Pervasive Parallelism Lab [PPL]. The PPL’s charter is to develop new techniques, tools and training materials to allow software engineers to harness the parallelism of multi-processor systems [including multi-core].
Parallel programming is perhaps the largest problem in computer science today and is the major obstacle to the continued scaling of computing performance that has fueled the computing
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LNXI holds a fire sale
If you are in the Salt Lake City area and have a spare 36 hours, LNXI is holding a public auction. More details at the link, but here is the announcement
Linux Networx, Inc.
Online AuctionPursuant to the Assignment of the Benefit of Creditors of Linux Networx, Inc., Development Specialists, Inc., Assignee pending in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware Case # 3611
Complete Closure of a Multi-Million
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Lustre Over the WAN
HPCWire is running a story today featuring the announcement from the University Information Technology Services [UITS] at Indiana University that they will now support projects mounting Lustre over high speed wide area networks [such as the TeraGrid]. The group has dedicated 350 terabytes of new storage to the initiative. Stephen Simms, IU’s Data Capacitor Project Lead, made the announcement during a panel discussion at the 2008 Lustre User Group meeting …
Good news for Woven
Regular readers will no doubt remember Ethernet switch maker Woven Systems from previous coverage in this space. The company makes adaptively routed 10 Gbps Ethernet switches that can be ganged together to connect up to 4,000 servers while staying in layer 2 (and thus avoiding all that nasty overhead).
They’ve got news this week; Woven…
…announced that the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
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More on Intel and Cray at HPCwire
Since HPCwire relaunched its web site over the weekend they’ve now got continuous feature stories. This one by Michael Feldman on the Intel/Cray relationship is a good one.
Intel is not talking about any specific microprocessor product line for the Cray systems, since it’s not on the chipmaker’s public roadmap yet. But it’s likely to be an Intel Architecture (IA) processor with a lot more than eight
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It sucks to be AMD
Brooke Crothers over at c|net Blogs posted yesterday about another pearl in AMD’s bag of sorrow, this time caused by some bad communication with manufacturers using their new Phenom chip
AMD confirmed Monday that some motherboard suppliers are mismatching high-end quad-core Phenom processors with a lower-end chipset.
…”They’ve taken an enthusiast-class quad-core part and paired it with a mainstream motherboard,” Whitman said. “And not all motherboard manufacturers have
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Cray reports Q1 results; posts loss
HPC stalwart Cray, Inc. announced Q1 financial results today. Details at their site. Here’s the skinny
…Cray today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Revenue for the quarter was $26.1 million compared to $47.1 million in the prior year period. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of ($10.6 million) or ($0.33) per share compared to a net loss of
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Windows webcasts in May
Volker Will posts over at his MS blog on a series of webcasts coming to a screen near you on Microsoft’s HPC tools. There are webcasts coming on HPC Server 2008 management and diagnostics, high availability, job scheduling, and “Future of Multi/Many-Core and the Convergence of Client and Cluster in Parallel Computing.”
Click through to his post with dates and links.
Microsoft funds green computing research
c|net’s News.com reported yesterday that the Microsoft has handed out $500,000 in grants to four universities for research in energy efficient computing as part of its Sustainable Computing Program.
The University of Tennessee was awarded research money to develop frameworks to account for power and performance improvements in virtualized data centers.
Stanford University will design a sensor network to gather data and analyze power consumption.
Harvard
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