Official Release: Rackable Systems Receives Court Approval to Purchase Silicon Graphics Assets
Silicon Graphics has released an official statement regarding the recent filing and subsequent purchase by Rackable. Rather than paraphrasing we’ve got the entire release here.
Rackable Featured on CNBC Tech Effect
Rackable Systems was featured on yesterday’s CNBC Tech Effect news spot. The overview and subsequent inteview features Rackable’s container data-center designs. Given the recent series of events surrounding Rackable and Silicon Graphics, the anchors threw in some additional tidbits on the matter.
You can watch the video here.
Bull reports Q1, growth in HPC
Bull is not listed on any of the American stock exchanges, which means that they have different rules about what news they have to share with investors. In particular I could not find the words “profit” or “loss” in their earnings release, and the company does not appear to be making available the kinds of quarterly financial statements that would reveal insight into whether they lost or made money.
What they want you to care about, …
PSC Debuts Dynamic Science Tool
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has debuted a new dynamic science teaching tool geared towards high school and undergraduate students. The new tool, Big Numbers, is the latest instructional product from the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing [NRBSC] Computational Modules in Science Teaching [CMIST] project. The new movie will be introduced by Joel Stiles, NRBSC director and associate professor of biological sciences at CMU, in Washington, DC on May …
IBM’s Power6+ Confusion
The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan has written up a detailed account of the last 18 months of IBM Power6 silicon goodness. IBM went through a major processor roadmap upgrade to the Power series back in 2007. Early roadmap slides showed the release of a Power6 processor base, then a significant upgrade to the platform in 2009. The 2009 upgrade was said to include cores clocking in …
Intel tops EPA green power rankings, IBM, HP, Sun MIA
Timothy Prickett Morgan has an article at The Register today about the EPA’s latest quarterly ranking of organizations who report their renewable power consumption
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working with an organization called the Green Power Partnership, puts out a quarterly report that tracks companies; local, state, and federal governments; and educational institutions in the United States who file reports with the EPA to show how much renewable power they buy and what percentage
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More free computational science courses, deadline May 18
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (one of the Blue Waters partners) is announcing a May 18 deadline for application to two free computational science courses to be offered this summer by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering:
The Scaling to Petascale course will be Aug. 3-7, 2009. High-definition streaming video of the course will enable students to participate from multiple locations, including the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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