Dan Fay points out that two Windows CCS machines made The List. One is their own machine, a Dell PowerEdge, at number 106. The other one is an IBM Cluster run at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, number 193. I’m going to classify those as enterprise HPC machines.
Archives for June 2007
Europe working to get at the power of multi-core computers
June 26, 2007 by
Bull announced today that it is one of the partners in Europe’s Parallel Programming for Multi-core Architectures (ParMA). The key objective of the new consortium is to help the HPC community to benefit fully from the processor race while developing innovative, flexible and open technologies for taking full advantage of the multi-core architectures. …The ParMA […]
Bull and Platform
June 26, 2007 by
Following close on the heels of Bull’s announcement last week with Altair, Bull has announced a partnership with Platform to put LSF on its hardware. Under the terms of this partnership, Platform LSF, the leading workload manager for distributed computing environments is available on both Intel® Xeon® based Bull NovaScale Cluster 400 and Intel® Itanium® […]
Manycore workshop presentations online
June 26, 2007 by
Savas Parastatidis has a post on his blog pointing to the presentations and papers from the just-concluded Manycore Computing Workshop 07, sponsored by his team at Microsoft. The program had a strong committee (Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey Fox, Dennis Gannon, John Mellor-Crummey, Savas Parastatidis, and Mateo Valero), and the presentations look interesting. I’m going to be […]
Intel tries to teach us out of the software crisis
June 26, 2007 by
Intel announced a new arrow in the quiver of things it’s doing to avert the coming multi-core software crunch. Intel Corporation unveiled today a global training curriculum for software developers to speed and expand software development for multi-core processors. The Intel® Software Training Program offers classroom courses and hands-on lab work to better train software […]
TACC's Ranger in Wired
June 26, 2007 by
In case you’re feeling left out of all the Sun press, TACC’s new super super has its own profile in Wired. Thanks to the CRA Tumblelog for the pointer.
A bushel basketful of Scali news
June 26, 2007 by
The PR machine at Scali has been busy stocking up news for ISC this week. They’ve got four announcements today, one of which I’ve already covered. Here’s the 411 on the rest. Scali MPI Connect will be available with Windows CCS 2003 on July 31. The new version will include cross-platform compatibility: Additionally, the Scali […]
TotalView on the IBM Cell
June 26, 2007 by
More TotalView news today; the company announced that they are working with IBM … to bring the TotalView Debugger to the IBM QS20 BladeCenter Cell Broadband Engine platform. The TotalView debugger will provide users with the ability to debug applications that take advantage of the Cell architecture with its parallel synergistic processing units. Using the […]
Globus Toolkit 4.0.5 released
June 26, 2007 by
Several bug fixes in all components, listed in the release notes, and some new features in WS-GRAM and MDS. The rest is on Ian Foster’s blog.
IBM to announce Cluster 1350 Opteron upgrades
June 26, 2007 by
Ashlee Vance over at El Register ran a piece yesterday with advance news that IBM is upgrading its Cluster 1350 line. …customers will find the 1U x3455 available with 95W dual-core Opterons running at 1.8GHz, 2.6Ghz and 3.0GHz. That’s because IBM has picked up the fresh Opterons AMD released in April that kicked the dual-core […]
