Feeling that your Globus knowledge is a little thin? Are the other admins pointing at you and laughing? Fear no more! Ian Foster has a list of Globus education events coming up all over the world in the next several months.
Archives for May 2007
Register: Sun to release new blade offerings next month
May 23, 2007 by
According to The Register, Sun is set to announce Xeon- and Niagara-based blades at an event in DC next month. Next month, it should release a system code-named Wolf that is a four-socket Xeon-based box. That four-socket system will slot into Sun’s existing chassis, as we reported last month. We’re guessing that Sun will sell […]
Her name is Rio
May 23, 2007 by
…and she dances on the sand (yes, I am now quoting Duran Duran; where else do you get 80s pop culture mixed with HPC?). Anyway, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro just bought an SGI Altix 450 with 32 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors with 64GB of memory. The system will be used “for projects […]
AMD shares Barcelona results
May 23, 2007 by
From c|net’s News.com: AMD demonstrated its Barcelona quad-core server chip for reporters and analysts here Monday, comparing its performance to one of AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors. This marked the first time AMD shared Barcelona performance information with anyone outside of its server partners and internal folks, said Randy Allen, corporate vice president for server and […]
IBM's Power6 in the wild
May 23, 2007 by
From PC World earlier this week: …IBM Corp. released its Power6 processor on Monday, its fastest chip yet for high-end servers. The chip runs at double the speed of its Power5 line, but uses the same amount of power. …The Power6 is a dual-core processor that runs at 4.7GHz. Those two cores use symmetric multithreading […]
Yahoo! stock site down
May 22, 2007 by
HPC vendor stock prices aren’t appearing right now on the home page because the Yahoo! service appears to be down. I assume this is temporary. Sorry for the disruption.
Categories
May 21, 2007 by
We’ve started expanding the coverage around here a bit with Mike writing on research issues and the addition of news with an enterprise HPC focus to my own posts. So I’m experimenting with how to incorporate categories onto the site. On the one hand I like the simplicity of everything on one page; on the […]
Dell's datacenter solution
May 21, 2007 by
This article (re-linked from http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070518/35946_id.html?.v=1, which has been removed) from SeekingAlpha on Friday is interesting in the degree to which it illuminates the high volume hype computer vendors are cranking out these days as they try to go green and become your one stop datacenter shop. Dell’s CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker, director of […]
Actual Power6 results
May 21, 2007 by
Reader Bobby Hunter pointed us to this story over at The Register, excerpted thus: The Register has spotted four 4.7GHz – yep, you read that right – Power6 chips cranking on Oracle 11i.… With 4.7GHz chips (4MB of L2 and 32MB of L3 cache), an IBM p570 server showed an average response time of .625 […]
Problems with big HPC on the horizon
May 21, 2007 by
Gary Montry has an interesting article in HPCwire summarizing some of the difficulties discussed at the LCI conference on that giant HPC has looming on the horizon. The first two keynotes set the tone by describing the perils and pitfalls of installing huge systems and getting them to perform. Even after a few years, all […]
