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Verari has announced that they completed a milestone shipment of its blade-based computing solutions.  An undisclosed customer took delivery of over 500 of Verari’s SB5550XL blade servers as a platform for enterprise and web 2.0 workloads.

Having a worldwide technology leader successfully complete a major installation of our power-efficient blade-based storage and server solutions validates our

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Platform Computing announced record revenues for the fiscal year ending in March 2008. Following the release, the self-funded software company was ranked 9th in Canada’s Top25 software companies by the Branham 300. The Branham 300 is considered the benchmark by which Candadian information technology companies measure their success.

In a very

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The folks over at the OpenSolaris community have dedicated a community focus group to high performance computing.  The community is designed to spark interest and exchange notes on utilizing the OpenSolaris platform for high performance computing.  The community page lists four main purposes:

.: Provide a home for the OpenSolaris HPC distro

.: Highlight existing features and …

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. today announced that Colfax International will offer its NX5000 series of Infiniband bridging solutions.  What is Infiniband bridging you say? Its essentially the idea of encapsulating the various Infiniband protocols and paradigms over long-haul transfer mediums.  In using this technology, one can create very high bandwidth [RDMA] virtual clusters and networks …

AdvancedTrading online mag has a quick blurb from TABB Group partner Bob Iati. Iati outlines how high performance computing has impacted server growth in relation to data center architecture. He outlines four main points:

.: Sell side institutions are striving to create a smaller footprint in their data centers

.: Nearly two thirds of all data centers are dedicated to …

Following our previous coverage [here, here, here] of high performance computing deployments throughout the Formula-1 racing scene, I stumbled upon an article comparing the distribution of AMD to Intel processors and correlating the distribution to the current points standings. Granted, this comparison has …

SC Online is reporting today that two new studies have been released from the Council on Competitiveness and IDC. Some of the findings

Most (57%) of the 77 surveyed firms have important problems they cannot solve with desktop computers.
As a group, these companies face three major barriers to HPC adoption: uncertainty about the availability of software that will run their

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Hot on the heels of announcing its re-entry into the visualization arena, SGI has cut two press releases related to visualization and digital media. The first outlines SGI’s continued relationship with the National Basketball Association [NBA for those that don’t watch sports].

The NBA and SGI have announced a multi-year …

Speaking of the challenges of managing really big data (as I was in HPCwire last week), we have this nugget of news from IBM

IBM announced a partnership with TD Bank Financial Group to explore the use of IBM’s breakthrough “Stream Computing” software system which will utilize the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. Together, they will

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IBM today announced a partnership with TD Bank Financial Group to explore the use of IBM’s stream computing software system running on an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. Together the team will utilize a fundamentally new software architecture in order to examine thousands of real-time information sources to support financial services companies. The …

On Monday HP announced new servers aimed at providing an HPC solution for the SMB market.

HP has introduced 2 new ProLiant servers and a quadcore Opteron server. Here is the meat of the announcement

The new HP ProLiant BL260c G5 offers customers the most power-efficient and affordable server blade in the industry.

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Interactive Supercomputing announced today that they’ve launched a hosted HPC service to compete with cycle services from Sun’s Network.com, and others.

While on-demand HPC resources have been available for some time from the nation’s leading supercomputing research labs and HPC system vendors like IBM, Sun and HP, they have been primarily hardware

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Well, actually it’s $999, 942, but I’ll spot them the $58. In the jewelry business I believe that’s called a “light carat.” From the release

The National Science Foundation last week designated nearly $1 million to provide Ohio’s workforce with crucial training in computational modeling and simulation. The grant also supplies Ohio’s businesses with advanced Internet portals that will offer

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Dan Fay writing on Microsoft’s blogging platform has shared news that MS has started a Computational Science Pilot

The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling execution of computational finance models for university courses - there is a good

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PC World Canada ran a short piece last week covering remarks made by a Sun executive to a group of business leaders about the relevance of HPC to mechanics of running a business

The discussion, which centered on HPC’s shift to mainstream from its traditional research sphere, served to help CIOs identify current uses of the technology and potential opportunities

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