In a sweeping tradition that’s been around since last week, insideHPC brings you Flex Bits: News with Snark:
- Iranian supercomputer! Sanctions can’t stop the proliferation of HPC, or even Justin Bieber for that matter.
- Oracle and Fujitsu to continue developing SPARC. Announcement makes no mention of Japan’s 10-Petaflop “K” supercomputer planned for 2012, which will feature 80,000 SPARC64 VIIIfx processors. Larry Ellison probably has room for the thing in his new $43M domicile.
- Is Bull the European HPC Leader? Hey wait, not so fast! (Ed. note: this pesky link has been repaired.)
- Bearish on the Bay. Scott McNealy thinks the Silicon Valley is going down the tubes. Imagine how Sun’s old neighbors in Menlo Park feel about Zuckerberg moving in.
- More heads roll at AMD. At least they can keep busy playing McNealy’s Project Flogton (NOT GOLF, spelled backward) game.
- Who has the fastest OpenCL device? Now you can benchmark them and see for yourself.
- Same Difference? Researchers debate the difference between Cloud and Grid, not to be confused with Today’s vs. Yesterday’s Newspaper.
Your “not so fast!” link about Bull goes to the story about Larry Ellison’s latest obscene purchase.
Thanks. Got the link repaired so that it points to Martin Hiegl’s blog: https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/Martin_Hiegl/entry/european_high_performance_computing_ibm?lang=en_us