Archives for April 2007

The AP carrying this story, which just can’t be good news for anyone involved: The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Accenture Ltd. that alleges the companies gave kickbacks to federal consultants in order to get favorable treatment in winning government technology contracts. … In a statement, Sun […]

Found this one courtesy of the CRA’s tumble log. It’s a video on the impact of HPC on fundamental sciences, mostly bio applications at the beginning, then on to more classic turbulence, fire, blackholes, and what not. It’s not a video to explain to your mom what you do for a living, but if you […]

I caught a few spare minutes over the weekend and added a desktop that I’ve been using for a couple weeks. Check it out here, or by clicking the “HPC Stuff” link in the menu. Over time I plan to add a few more images, and maybe a t-shirt or two so you can fly […]

The US Department of Energy announced yesterday that their Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research has launched a new “webzine” (no, seriously, that’s the word they used; it’s like 1999). The online magazine is called ASCR Discovery, and highlights computational research sponsored by the ASCR. You can find it here.

I think it’s great when you can work “pan” into something. Like, say, “pan-cake.” Anyway, HPCwire brings us this bit of news about goings on in Europe: …Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the new […]

PCWorld article on a guy at Livermore who has actually finished what most of us have already started in attics, garages, and bonus rooms around the country: In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. […]

More coverage from Ashlee Vance on the Intel Developer Forum. The whole article is interesting and short, and you should just read it. Here’s one nugget (but there are several): He described Larrabee as a multi-core, programmable part that will use a tweaked version of the x86 instruction set. Intel expects software developers to craft […]

Like a wet bar of soap, Intel’s chip roadmap pops out of my hand the instant I think I’ve got it. According to The Register today (covering from the Intel Developer Forum): Intel first talked up “Gesher” during last September’s IDF (Intel Developer Forum), using the name to describe an upcoming 32nm processor that will […]

HPC piece at BusinessWeek.com on the transformation of Trumbull Bronze, a company that has made parts for steel mills for the past 85 years, into a new millennium company thanks to supercomputing. A job that M-Seven did for BMW late last year shows how a company like Garvey’s can be reborn thanks to the highest […]

Sun announced two- and four-socket Xeon-based blades today at the Intel Developer Forum, according to an article this morning over at The Register. The four-socket blade server will fit into Sun’s existing Blade 8000 chassis and should ship in the second half of this year. The system will be based on the four-core “Tigerton” version […]