Martin Banks has a great piece on a good use for the Top500 list: as a lens through which to observe the democratization of supercomputing. This is a theme I’ve talked about much over the past several years, and it’s one of the reasons that (as a dyed-in-the-wool big iron biggot) I’m still excited about […]
Archives for June 2007
insideHPC from Russia, with love (and a puppy)
June 27, 2007 by
I am pleased as punch (that’s right people, punch!) to post the first pictures from the insideHPC.com first ever button-palooza (click the thumbs for big pics). Alexander Petrov sent me these snaps of his dog — and our buttons on his shirt — from Rybinsk, Russia (which is here, according to the Google Overlords). I […]
The Green guys have a new logo
June 27, 2007 by
Of course I’m talking about those wonderful gnomes slaving away in the Green500.org mountain, shining up their list of the computers that deliver the most FLOPS for your watt. The first full list is due out at SC’07. I like the logo.
Intel's Cluster Ready certification
June 27, 2007 by
Not to be outdone in the “we’re making clusters easier to build” department, Intel has announced its own cluster deployment initiative. The Intel approach appears less end-user centric than Cluster Resources’ recently announced Escalante product. Intel Cluster Ready is a program and technology that helps simplify the deployment, usage and management of clustered computer systems […]
Senate science appropriations: better than the pres, but not the House
June 27, 2007 by
The CRA’s Policy Blog has coverage today about the first indications of how science would fare in the 2008 budget if the Senate was king of the world. Since you need to know this, I will now quote to the point of re-blogging and hope Peter forgives me: NSF received a total appropriation of $6.6 […]
Lions, tigers, and Top500 rankings
June 27, 2007 by
Some people have some machines that have various rankings on the Top500 list. Some vendors have some products that are variously in commanding or declining positions on said list. Some centers are very proud. There are lots (and lots and lots) of press releases. All good stuff, but I’m not covering it (with a few […]
HP's multi-core optimization program
June 27, 2007 by
Not to be outdone by the likes of Intel, HP has just announced its own effort to stave off the coming multi-core software crisis. While Intel educates, HP provides us with tools (to be fair Intel is also creating tools, but the segue works better this way, don’t you think?): HP also has expanded its […]
Microsoft's HPC business, all in one release
June 27, 2007 by
Well, if you wanted to shop for all your Microsoft HPC product strategy news in one place, they’ve just created the press release for you (credit to HPCwire). Seriously, I’m not even a journalist and the volume of news this week is stressing me out, then we get a 1,300 word press release — have […]
CDOSheet application available from Sun's Network.com
June 27, 2007 by
From Sun today: Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of a Dynamic On Demand financial risk simulation and pricing service from Network.com offered by CDO2, a provider of innovative pricing and risk technology for organizations trading structured credit products. And AC Capital Partners Limited (a leveraged ABS investment firm with 1.3B USD in assets […]
Marc Hamilton with Sun Constellation highlights
June 27, 2007 by
On his blog. Some of my favorites: The Sun Constellation System requires only 1/6 as many IB cables as current solutions. In a 3456 node cluster, this is estimated to be a weight savings over over 8 tons in the cables alone! The Sun Constellation System supports AMD, Intel, and SPARC CPUs. The Sun Constellation […]
