Market analyst firm IDC just released its Q107 Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. That report shows that HP shipped more servers than any other company, and lead the HPC market again in the first quarter of 2007. This is the 20th consecutive quarter that HP has led industry server sales. From HP’s release: In the high-performance […]
Archives for May 2007
Building a Win HPC cluster
May 24, 2007 by
Dan Fay points to a paper in The Architecture Journal detailing the configuration of an HPC cluster using Windows CCS and a bunch of other MS technology for a solution that focuses on workflow. From the article …Microsoft Cluster Compute Server Edition is easy to include as a service gateway inside a general n-tier application […]
HOPL-III conference: Programming Language History
May 23, 2007 by
There ought to be a lot of great new ideas to hear about at the upcoming ACM FCRC mega-conference, June 8-16 in San Diego – it includes SIGMETRICS (performance evaluation) and ISCA (computer architecture) – but if you’re also interested in history, there’s a special treat: the third installment of the History of Programming Languages […]
Panassas opens source for its client software
May 23, 2007 by
The move, which will happen this summer, is targeted to advance adoption of pNFS. From the release Panasas…today announced the source code release of key components of its industry leading parallel file system client software, DirectFLOW®, to accelerate the adoption of Parallel Network File System (pNFS), which is to be released as part of the […]
QLogic Ships Ethernet and Fibre Channel Card for BladeCenter
May 23, 2007 by
QLogic has announced it is shipping the industry’s first Ethernet and Fibre Channel combo expansion card for IBM BladeCenter servers. From the release: The QLogic® Ethernet and 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter provides two 1Gb Ethernet and two 4Gb Fibre Channel ports. The card is available now.
ScaleOut Software updates software offerings
May 23, 2007 by
ScaleOut Software announced this week that it has released new StateServer and GeoServer software. StateServer 3.0 is the latest version of the company’s NET-based distributed caching product: Version 3.0 adds important performance optimizations that reduce access times and boost overall application performance while reducing CPU and network overheads. This version also includes new capabilities for […]
Xen 3.1
May 23, 2007 by
According to GridToday yesterday XenSource Inc., the leader of the open source Xen virtualization project and a provider of enterprise virtualization solutions, today announced the release of Xen 3.1. The latest release of the Xen hypervisor delivers features to support the most demanding enterprise virtualization use cases, and open, standards-based management interfaces for the ISV […]
UD announces Insight 4.0
May 23, 2007 by
United Devices announced today general availability for the latest version of Insight, an application-centric analysis and reporting product that leverages real-time capacity and utilization information to optimize application performance across data center infrastructure. …”This capability is a fundamental component of successful data center optimization initiatives,” said Jikku Venkat, chief technology officer at UD. “It’s Operations […]
Evergrid lands $10M in funding
May 23, 2007 by
Data Center Knowledge is reporting that Evergrid, a company started with one of my buds Srinidhi Varadarajan, just landed $10M in Series B funding from Menlo Ventures and Acartha Group LLC. The company’s software uses virtualization to manage large clusters of servers in high-performance computing (HPC) applications, monitoring the grid for errors and restarting any […]
ARPANET contractor to run NSF's GENI
May 23, 2007 by
According to the CRA’s Policy Blog: The National Science Foundation today announced it has selected BBN Technologies to create and run the project office for its proposed Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) research facility. BBN, which won the original government contract to build the ARPANET in 1969, will manage the planning and design of […]
