Sun confirms additional 1,500 jobs cut
MercuryNews.com reported yesterday that Sun has confirmed additional job cuts this week
Sun Microsystems, amid persistent reports of a possible acquisition by IBM, is eliminating an additional 1,500 employees from its global work force this week — the latest wave in an 18 percent staffing reduction announced in November, a Sun executive said.
The company is also asking remaining employees to dig deep
The company also will require time off
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InsideTrack: stimulus money headed into HPC on the back of other programs
I was on the phone with Charlie Wuischpard, the CEO of Penguin Computing, today and got some interesting insight into possible HPC impact from President Obama’s stimulus spending.
From the various posts I’ve made and pointed to on the subject, you’ll remember that while there is nominal added funded for computing in the stimulus act, it doesn’t come across as anything like a priority.
I was heartened to hear from Charlie that he is seeing what he …
But will it play in Peoria?
If you didn’t grow up in the US on reruns of 1960s television, you might want the Wikipedia entry for that title.
Anyway, I just got off the air recording an episode of Intel’s Parallel Programming Talk podcast with Aaron Tersteeg and Clay Breshears. Aaron and I have talked by email and phone, and Clay and I used to work together, so we had a great time. My …
Power efficient servers, virtualization, and green HPC
We’ve been talking a bit here lately about the uses of virtualization in HPC, and there are strong advocates on both sides of the question. The general roar of the IT press though is in virtualization’s favor, which is why I was pleased to see this counter-study at SearchDataCenter.com
While many IT pros use virtualization to avert server sprawl and keep power costs low, others lack the resources to or resist going virtual because of
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Appro and Terascala Partner on Storage
Appro and Terascala announced a partnership this morning to deliver Appro’s Xtreme-X and HyperGreen Blade Cluster solutions in conjunction with Terascala’s MTS and RTS 1000 Lustre storage appliances.
“An important consideration when designing an efficient supercomputing environment is to maximize infrastructure utilization. The partnership with Terascala Storage solutions and Appro’s supercomputing server solutions maximize infrastructure utilization while balancing energy consumption, providing customers with better performance, cost efficiencies
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STFC Daresbury Laboratory’s new Tesla, Nehalem combo cluster
More news from the UK’s Streamline Computing, this time about a new system to be installed at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory. This system is interesting in that it uses the new Xeon 5500’s (Nehalem-EP) and the QuickPath Interconnect along side NVIDIA’s Tesla graphics cards.
Technical specialists from NVIDIA and Streamline Computing will work together to ensure that the cluster runs to maximum efficiency but some early research from Streamline Computing has
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SiCortex says Nehalem is too little, too late
SiCortex is one of the few HPC vendors who doesn’t have at least one product line in the Nehalem refresh fest that marked today’s chip launch. Of course their gear is based on MIPS processors. Not to be left out the news cycle, SiCortex is shopping around the opposition point of view, which landed in my inbox today. First, from Chris Stone, president and CEO
Intel’s Nehalem Xeon EP processor addresses
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Nehalem-EP, world. World, meet Nehalem.
It wasn’t out when I looked before work this morning, but by the time I got home and got the laptop back out, the news was fully distributed. Intel’s Xeon 5500 series processor, the follow-on to Harpertown, the latest Core i7 processor, that’s right — Nehalem-EP — is out of the closet.
The new enterprise-class chips can automatically adjust to specified energy usage levels, and speed data center transactions
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Silicon Graphics Supports Nehalem on ICE: Complete with Benchmarks
On the tails on Intel’s official release of their latest Xeon silicon, deemed Nehalem, Silicon Graphics have announced support for the new chip in their ICE cluster series.
To remain competitive, users today require their IT platforms to deliver results much sooner, even as their applications increase in complexity and data sets grow exponentially,” said Silicon Graphics CEO Bo Ewald. “The SGI
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According to Otellini, Sun Was Shopped Around
In a recent SEC filing, Intel CEO Paul Otellini made a few comments regarding the recent news that IBM has expressed interest to open their [very large] wallet and merge [*cough*... purchase] Sun Microsystems. The original comments came during an employee webcast last week discussing Intel’s stock options program.
Oh, I don’t know if the Cisco entry spurred IBM. I think (a)
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