Clouds: Ellison isn’t a fan
This is circuitous, but hang with me: Nick Carr pointed to a Larry Ellison rant on the hype around clouds in the general IT industry that was blogged by Ben Worthen at the WSJ. Larry apparently waxed honest during an Oracle analyst call last week
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with
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9th Russian Top50 released
News from HPCwire yesterday that the ninth list of the Top50 supercomputers in Russia has been released
The new edition of the list was announced on Sept. 23 at the All-Russian scientific conference “Scientific service on the Internet: Large-scale problems’ solution.” T-Platforms maintains the leading positions with respect to the number of systems represented in the list (18 systems), followed by Hewlett-Packard (11 systems) and IBM (8 systems).
The list is here. Not so oddly, …
Fault tolerance in Win HPC installations
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Reg on a new move for an old server company, Stratus Technologies. He starts off by nailing HPC’ers
Supercomputer customers are known for spending big bucks on exotic technology, but they’re also notorious cheapskates.
Ah, me. Sadly, he’s right. Anyway, here’s the deal
…Stratus Technologies – one of the venerable vendors of fault tolerant servers for commercial applications – is now trying to get its x64-based ftServer machinery into supercomputer sites, thanks
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SiCortex announces new deskside, responds to CX1
SiCortex today announced its newest deskside “personal development system” (72 core system targeted at developers of code for the machine’s bigger brothers). The PDS is evidently a brand change from Catapult they launched at SC last year.
Packaged with Linux, the operating system of choice for HPC, the PDS combines the at-the-desk accessibility and low cooling requirements of a PC with the speed and power of high-productivity computing. The PDS
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New Red Hat Linux for HPC coming Oct 7
In more reader news (hi, Jay!), we are pointed to Linux Today for news of a forthcoming HPC distro of everyone’s favorite OS. This distro marks a change from the previous Red Hat approach to HPC, as noted by the Inquirer
The current offerings, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Compute Node subscription, are based on the standard distro but tailored for compute nodes running HPC workloads. The subscription is available for HPC compute nodes
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Sun GridEngine 6.2 Beginner’s Guide
Sun has just released a new whitepaper written by Daniel Templeton entitled, “Beginner’s Guide to Sun GridEngine 6.2.” The whitepaper covers basic installation and configuration of the latest production version of GridEngine. The chapter breakout is as follows:
Chapter 1, Introduction to Sun Grid Engine, describes some basic Sun Grid Engine concepts.
Chapter 2, Sun Grid Engine Scheduler, introduces the complete list of scheduling policies and what …
SAIC Lands National Cancer Institute Contract
Science Applications International Corporation [SAIC] announced this morning that it was awarded the a follow-on contract by the National Cancer Institute [NCI]. The contract is slated to provide operations and technical support to NCI’s Federally Funded Research and Development Center [FFRDC] in Frederick, MD.
The FFRDC is one of only 38 national labs in the US and the only of which dedicated to research cancer and HIV/AIDS. Under the contract, SAIC will support over 300 clinical …
TACC Ranger Video Tour
Steve Wilson of Sun Microsystems has posted a neat video tour of TACC’s Ranger supercomputer. Steve’s videography is much better than my lowly attempt at taking photographs.
Check out the video here.
Cray photoshop funny
A reader (hi, Randall!) sent me a pointer to this piece at Photoshop Disasters (originally seen at Hot Hardware), the relevant picture for which I’ve pasted in below.
Note the crazy angles that happen when the CX1 promo shot is pasted into a picture with completely different lighting and angles — yikes!
This is evidently from an actual Cray marketing brochure, but I don’t know whether this is from …
Sun HPC Consortium in conjunction with SC08
From Sun System News, a pointer to Sun’s upcoming HPC event
The Sun HPC Consortium Austin is being held in conjunction with SC08 in Austin, Texas.
The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and visualization.
SHPCC’s mission is to provide the high performance computing community with leadership and provide
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