SGI Announces Financial Results
SGI announced their financial results today. Normally, this would be followed by analyst speculation, CFO pontification and lots of yawning. Well, this is a special quarter for SGI. It marks the end of the first full fiscal year after Rackable purchased the company in the spring of 2009. So, how’d they do?
The SGI sales figures were up 74% to $101.6 million. Not bad considering the the lackluster economy. However, due to charges from the acquisition of Copan, installation of a new Oracle ERP system [which cost $3 million], foreign exchange and other effects, SGI’s losses actually widened. How bad? They rose to $27.6 million, which is +34%. They had revenues of $122 million at an average …
insideHPC Acquired by Industry Veteran Rich Brueckner
indigoBit LLC today announced that insideHPC has been acquired by 24-year HPC industry veteran, Rich Brueckner.
Sun GridEngine, now 100% less free
Oracle continues its drive to do away with Sun’s strategy of making money by adding value on top of open source tools provided free to the community. In fairness to Oracle it didn’t work all that well as a business model for Sun, which hemorrhaged money and never turned the strategy into any significant share of the HPC market. The latest victim is Sun’s popular job scheduling system, GridEngine.
This change actually happened back in June as far as we can tell, but it’s just popped up as a topic on various discussion boards. Randall Hand at Vizworld wrote up a nice summary of the change, which moves the free Sun GridEngine to the for-pay Oracle …
X-ISS Beefs Up HPC Administration Products and Services
X-ISS made two big announcements today regarding some new HPC-centric products and services. Those of you with reasonably sized Dell clusters might know X-ISS has the integration and services company that, on occasion, assists Dell in performing HPC deployments. The first press release officially announces what they call the DecisionHPC monitoring suite. The web-based monitoring and analytics package helps collect and report data on heterogeneous computing systems. The goal of DecisionHPC is provide information to systems administrations such that they can make more reliable decisions.
“With more than 500 HPC cluster system installations and support services since 1993, X-ISS has observed that most users of HPC systems struggle to maximize system productivity, aligning computing resource usage with organizational goals, and plan for future needs; these problems
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Debate Looms on Holyoke HPC Center Economic Impacts
Members of the Holyoke Innovation Design and Development Task Force have begun to speculate on the potential economical impacts of building the upcoming HPC center. All things being equal, an HPC center of that size doesn’t require a vast army of support and operations staff. The group, tasked with working with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a quasi-public state economic development agency, to figure out exactly what the Pioneer Valley needs to do to properly harness the computing center, speculates that the site will require around 20 staff members for operations. So where do the rest of the economic development prospects come from?
They will come here, in my estimation, if we give them a reason to,” said Timothy W. Brennan, executive director of
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Cray reports Q2, posts loss
HPC stalwart Cray Inc. reported results for its second fiscal quarter
…[Cray] announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Revenue for the quarter was $28.7 million compared to $62.7 million in the prior year period. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of ($6.6 million) or ($0.19) per share compared to net income of $3.4 million or $0.10 per share in the second quarter of 2009.
And the news is worse for the half year
…revenue for the six-month period ending June 30, 2010 was $57.1 million compared with $137.2 million in the prior year period. For the first half of the year, total operating expenses were $35.9 million compared to $45.4 million in
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ScaleMP grows, secures funding
The fine folks at ScaleMP — you’ll recall that they make a sort of reverse virtualization solution that makes one virtual machine out of many physical servers — sent us word of some good news late last week. First up, they doubled new customer deployments in the second quarter (sequentially) and experienced record growth
The introduction of vSMP Foundation 3.0 in May met with marked interest as it introduced capabilities that allowed users to deploy very large virtual symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and created significant traction that contributed to the Q2 success. The new release offers unlimited modular scaling, increased performance with scalable backplane bandwidth and expanded hardware support. vSMP Foundation 3.0 leverages the power of Intel’s Nehalem-EX and
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QLogic and Mellanox report positive financial results
Both QLogic and Mellanox reported quarterly results last week, and both did well. Mellanox reported [PDF] record second quarter revenue of $40M, up about 10% sequentially and 58% year over year.
“We are pleased to report record quarterly revenues of $40 million and year-over-year net income growth of 205 percent due to increased demand for both our InfiniBand and Ethernet product line offerings,” said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president, and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “Our efficient interconnect solutions gained traction in multiple markets including high-performance computing, virtualized data centers, financial services and Web 2.0. As reported on the June TOP500 list, Mellanox’s industry-leading InfiniBand products connect the world’s fastest 208 supercomputers, or approximately 42 percent of the list, highlighting
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