Maui Community College will receive a new toy this summer.  IBM has committed to donate a P6 supercomputer for use in the Maui CC Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology [ECET] program.   The grant is attached to a Shared University Research [SUR] awards program created in order to demonstrate the partnership between academia and the technology …

Hey gang, your group of intrepid writers and internet trollers are not going to Germany for this year’s compute-a-palooza. If you are, I’d love to post your thoughts, experiences, and feedback on the cool and not-so-cool stuff you see, hear, learn, and do.

Short or long, send your thoughts to me at john@insidehpc.com.

Michael Feldman with some perspective on the recent HP and IBM dense computing solution announcements

With HP’s rollout of the new ProLiant BL2×220c G5 today, the company has an answer for IBM’s recently announced iDataPlex server. Both are extra-dense server architectures designed for scaled out datacenters. That means these boxes are aimed at cloud computing, Web 2.0 and high performance

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This is a cool idea…Jeff Squyres has posted at Cluster Monkey that he’s just made a bunch of MPI video training material available from the Open MPI site.

Over the past year or two, I have been slowly creating a large set of Open MPI training material that I’ve used to present to my company’s customers and partners. I have

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We just received word from the organizers of the SiCortex application workshop at Argonne that there are still a few seats open.  If you’re still interested in attending the June 17th and 18th event at Argonne, you can browse registration and travel details here.

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Allinea has announced that its flagship Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) is now available on NEC’s SX Series vector supers.

For several years, NEC had been using DDT on Linux and other systems with much success, but the debugging tool was not available for the powerful SX vector supercomputers. Allinea worked closely with

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Today HP announced new products and a new organization focused on the needs of scale out compute customers — those customers whose real requirements are dominated by the need for lots and lots of FLOPs working on loosely coupled (or uncoupled) workloads. Think Web 2.0, rapid processing of independent data streams, and specific traditional HPC workloads like biotech and perhaps …

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] has partnered with the Meraka Institute’s Centre for High Performance Computing [CHPC] in order to develop their own computational fluid dynamics code. According to Dr. Arnaud Malan, CSIR’s principle researcher and leader for aeronautics research, South African research groups are currently paying enormous amounts …

Angstrom Microsystems has announced the first deployment of its xFFT library.  The accelerated Fast Fourier Transform library was purchased by LumArray Inc, an MIT-based technology company.  LumArray is a spin-off from the MIT NanoStructures Lab that develops state-of-the-art maskless nanolithography technology.

Maskless lithography is notorious for being computationally intensive, and using conventional CPUs we would

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Last week I wrote a story at HPCwire about the recent changes and upgrades across IBM’s entire HPC portfolio. One of the interesting aspects of this story for me was the degree to which IBM is maintaining a very vibrant and yet diverse product line of HPC products across all segments of the market.

The story was mostly retrospective, summarizing …

Reader Luca Bianchi from Pavia University in Italy dropped me an email to let insideHPC know about opportunities for PhD research. I’ve pasted in Luca’s email and contact info below. If you’re interested, get in touch directly (oh, and if you end up headed to Pavia for some of your thesis work, send some snaps to insideHPC of you doing …

If you’re headed out to Dresden early next month you might consider cutting your sightseeing a day short and dropping in on the second ClearSpeed User Group meeting:

The meeting will be held at International Congress Center in Dresden, Germany on June 16, 2008; the day before ISC’08 starts.

This is a unique opportunity to meet and hear technical presentations from industry-leading

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I missed this news last week, but Platform launched a new product suite called Platform Manage in the cluster management market at the company’s annual Platform Global Conference.

From coverage at The Register it is clear that CEO Songnian Zhou is after the HPC management market. More from this article

The company’s new

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We need more rock stars in HPC: people like Larry Smarr, Jack Dongarra, Dan Reed, and Seymour Cray who accomplish big things and, periodically, capture the imagination of the lay press. In HPC it’s the accomplishment that matters, and some of our superheroes achieve cult status inside the community. But in their rock star role with the outside world, it …

That may be the coolest of the iHPC headlines so far.

From “The Australian” late last week (while I was in the woods with a bunch of campers) comes news that Cray CEO Peter Ungaro keynoted the Cooperative Research Centre’s annual meeting — CRCA08 — in Sydney, Australia last week.

From the article

CRCs

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