Last week News.com carried this bit of tid about the move to 32nm: IBM, Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics will join forces to develop and manufacture chips using 32-nanometer circuitry elements, the companies said Wednesday. The alliance partners, which also include Infineon Technologies and privately owned Freescale Semiconductor, will work through 2010 to design, develop […]
Archives for May 2007
Dell offers Ubuntu
May 28, 2007 by
No, this isn’t HPC, but I thought you might care anyway. From Dell last week: Dell today made it official, unveiling three consumer systems — the XPSTM 410n and DimensionTM E520n desktops and the InspironTM E1505n notebook — with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed.
HPC and America's Cup
May 28, 2007 by
via HPCwire Swiss DALCO, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of high-performance computing solutions, has doubled the computer power for Alinghi, Defender of the 32nd America’s Cup. The supercomputer was designed and custom-built by DALCO to meet Alinghi’s demand for increased computer power to best evaluate the latest design developments, to simulate their effects and to […]
IDC: InfiniBand getting bigger
May 28, 2007 by
via HPCwire A new forecast from IDC predicts …high-performance computing (HPC), scale-out database environments, shared virtualized I/O, and increasing demands from financial applications will propel worldwide InfiniBand host channel adaptor (HCA) factory revenues from $62.3 million in 2006 to $224.7 million in 2011. Additionally, factory revenue from InfiniBand switch port sales is expected to grow […]
Memorial Day
May 28, 2007 by
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. Douglas MacArthur Today we remember the brave men and women who go where they’re told and give everything they’ve got for those they’ve left behind. Thank you.
Button-palooza!
May 24, 2007 by
First, one desktop wallpaper. Then, two. Now: buttons. I know, but get someone to pinch you, because you’re not dreaming. We’ve got two…that’s right, two…cool HPC buttons. Now you can advertise your HPC cred and tell the world you’re one of those discriminating insideHPC.com readers that all the kids are talking about these days. They’re […]
FY08 appropriations: DOE doing well
May 24, 2007 by
The CRA’s Policy Blog gives us a peek at the first FY08 appropriations numbers, and the DOE is doing well The Department of Energy’s Office of Science would see significant increases under the FY 2008 House Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill marked up by the E&W Approps Subcommittee yesterday. Though we don’t yet have […]
IBM leads in server revenue share
May 24, 2007 by
Just to make sure you have a hard time identifying who’s really out front, Gartner announced today that IBM is number one in server revenue share. I think the difference between this announcement and the HP one is that IDC shows HP as leading in units shipped, while Gartner shows IBM as making more money. […]
HP adds Cisco DDR InfiniBand offerings
May 24, 2007 by
HP announced today that the company is adding Cisco’s InfiniBand solutions to its HPC hardware product line. First, HP will offer Cisco double data rate (DDR) InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switches (SFS) as part of HP’s Unified Cluster Portfolio. Additionally, HP BladeSystem c-Class servers are now supported with Cisco’s standards-based InfiniBand host driver software. According to […]
IBM's new HPC storage product
May 24, 2007 by
This week IBM announced a new storage configuration. The IBM System Storage DCS9550 Storage System comes in a 4U controller and 3U disk expansion drawers. According to the company, it is designed for HPC applications “such as genome medical research, government research and rich media applications.” From the product web site The DCS9550 Fibre Channel […]
