More from c|net’s News.com on Sun’s Constellation announcement The linchpin in the system is the switch, the piece of hardware that conducts traffic between the servers, memory and data storage. Code-named Magnum, the switch comes with 3,456 ports, a larger-than-normal number that frees up data pathways inside these powerful computers. I had a preview of […]
Archives for June 2007
Liquid Computing to offer Scali MPI
June 26, 2007 by
HPCwire is carrying a release from HPC hardware startup Liquid Computing about its new partnership with Scali Scali and Liquid Computing announced an OEM agreement supporting Scali MPI Connect on Liquid Computing’s LiquidIQ server. Scali MPI Connect is a high performance, scalable and fully supported implementation of the industry standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) which […]
HP and Microsoft tighten partnership
June 26, 2007 by
Microsoft’s CCS 2003 continues to serve as a fundamental part of new HPC offerings designed by the hardware vendors to make the transition from PCs to HPC as painless, and familiar, as possible. You’ll recall that we mentioned back in February that IBM was pushing hard down into the bottom of the market in partnership […]
Cluster Resources' Escalante to make deploying HPC systems point and click simple
June 26, 2007 by
Cluster Resources, maker of the Moab Cluster Suite, announced yesterday [PDF] from Dresden that their new HPC software stack is soon to enter an open beta. Escalante leverages SUSE Linux Enterprise Server’s pattern deployment capability to apply the needed software to the cluster’s central management node (a.k.a. head node), then upon restart a Moab cluster […]
TotalView rev adds support for XT4, SiCortex, others
June 26, 2007 by
HPCwire let us know that TotalView has revved their eponymous debugger this week to version 8.2. TotalView is a source code and memory debugger that helps developers get at problems in data-intensive, multi-process, multi-threaded, or network-distributed applications. Highlights of the new features include support for SiCortex Cray XT4 Fedora Core 6 Expanded Mac products Ubuntu
CPU Tech and BAE working on Bradley vehicle
June 26, 2007 by
CPU Tech and BAE announced (PDF) today that they have been funded by the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for a collaborative effort to begin the development of a SystemLab based virtual model of BAE Systems’ Bradley Combat Systems vehicle. The virtual model will run on CPU Tech’s new SystemLab Platform Simulator (SystemLab […]
IBM's big announcement; Blue Gene times 3
June 26, 2007 by
Hello, and welcome to the Day of Announcements. Scroll down if you don’t know what I’m talking about. Anyway, IBM has revved Blue Gene, thusly IBM today announced Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Blue Gene/P nearly triples the performance of its predecessor, Blue Gene/L — currently the world’s fastest […]
New technology?
June 26, 2007 by
So I saw this when it was announced yesterday, but I wasn’t (and I’m still not) sure how to cover it. Here’s a link to the release, along with an excerpt. A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James […]
SGI's big announcement
June 26, 2007 by
SGI is also launching a new product today. The launch is in DC, so if you’re hanging about the Nation’s capital with an itch to learn more about HPC, skip the monuments and head over to the launch. ICE is SGI’s second generation blade solution. It’s Xeon-based (set for dual- or quad-cores) and is configured […]
Sun's big announcement: Constellation
June 26, 2007 by
The covers on the impending Sun HPC announcement we pointed to yesterday have lifted a little. And if you’re at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, you’ll get to see the whole thing happen first hand. Sun is taking the wraps of the gigantic system it’s building for the Texas Advanced Computing Center in […]
