Archives for January 2007

If your dance card isn’t already full next Wednesday, you might check out the University of Utah’s Hybrid Computing Conference: Scientific Supercomputing with Cells, GPUs, FPGAs, and Multi-Core CPUs. The program looks interesting, including a talk by John Gustafson (currently at ClearSpeed), a man whose scaled speedup paper I spent a lot of time studying […]

HPCwire reported yesterday that NCAR will form a partnership with the University of Wyoming and the State of Wyoming to build a new supercomputing center for the study of climate and weather. The NSF and the Wyoming legislature still need to approve the $60M USD deal. Construction of the $60 million data center for the […]

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) announced Tuesday that it’s adding an IBM Cluster 1350 to it’s floor. According to OSC This new system is projected to be one of the top 50 supercomputers in the world, making OSC among the top 10 academic supercomputing centers. Interestingly the system includes both Opteron and Cell-processor blades: The […]

Ah, the inscrutable world of processor code-names. They’re a double threat: meaningless AND difficult to remember. For those of you not in the cool kids club, Barcelona is AMD’s quad core Opteron. There is speculation that Dell and AMD may be close to a deal that will have Dell shipping Barcelona-based machines soon after they […]

(I get extra points for that headline). QLogic has just announced they are partnering with Alacritech to create HBAs with 10 Gigabit Ethernet TCP Offload Engine: QLogic is licensing Alacritech TCP offload patents to deliver HBAs with 10 Gigabit TOE for all operating systems including Linux and Microsoft Windows. Customers with multiple high performance operating […]

SHARCNET is a collaboration of 14 universities, colleges and research institutes in southern Ontario, and so is kind of like the Teragrid, only farther north. The model is a cluster of machines linked by a fiber optic network, and it’s growing from 800 to 6,000 processors. The hardware is primarily HP ProLiant servers with Opteron […]

Etnus announced recently that they’ve created an installation packet specifically for Platform’s Open Cluster Stack (OCS) Linux Cluster Toolkit. According to the company: The result is simplified deployment and management of large-scale Linux clusters, including those made by Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers.

Sun’s recent deal with Intel notwithstanding, they’ve announced new Sparc silicon in their multi-threading lineup, and they’re also tuning up their high end Sun Fire gear. The “Rock” processor is Sun’s next-generation, high-end SPARC CMT product line, and its design is focused on delivering the performance and energy efficiency of CMT technology to high-end systems. […]

Actually, I just wanted to use the word “epoch” in a post. Anyway, good stuff is going on over at HPCwire. Tabor Communications has reorganized under the leadership of Debra Goldfarb, a name many of you will recognize. The new company-wide focus will be on helping the community build a conversation around the value of […]

Sun and Intel are announcing may announce [Ed: evidently I jumped the gun since it hasn’t happened yet; Update 2: it happened] a deal this morning to pimp each other’s gear. According to the AP: Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to use chips from Intel Corp. in some of its servers […]