Clay Breshears comments on a recent announcement that Purdue is set to begin studying when to introduced parallel programming for undergraduates: With a three-year grant from the NSF, the project will study how and when to introduce parallel programming concepts and work as early as possible within a student’s course of study. It is anticipated […]
Archives for August 2007
Gear6: 500 GB of "memory attached storage"
August 28, 2007 by
The Register’s Ashlee Vance has a profile of hardware startup Gear6. The Silicon Valley-based firm ships a pair of caching appliances. These RAM-based boxes plug right into existing Ethernet networks and work as complements to disk-based shared storage systems. As a result, applications that depend on accessing large data sets tend to enjoy dramatic performance […]
YouTube for scientists
August 28, 2007 by
Story in BioIT World yesterday, but I’ve seen lots of other pointers to it lately: The site, called SciVee, will allow scientists to upload highly technical papers. But it will also let the researchers post accompanying video presentations that serve as quicker, more approachable guides to their work. http://www.scivee.tv/.
Researchers build foundation for photo-transistors
August 28, 2007 by
One of the difficulties that we’ll face on the road to quantum computers is creating something like the transistor: a device that facilitates the flow of bits of information in a computer. The problem is that in a quantum computer bits of information are transferred via single photons that are harder to work with than […]
Federal networking plan wants your comments
August 27, 2007 by
From the CRA’s policy blog The National Coordinating Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) — the ~$3 billion, 14 agency program that constitutes the federal effort in IT research and development — is looking for comment by the end of September on its draft plan for advanced networking research and development. […]
ProCurve switches doing well
August 27, 2007 by
HP is talking about the success of its ProCurve line today ProCurve Networking by HP experienced year-over-year port growth for the second calendar quarter of 2007 more than double the industry growth rate, according to a recent report by market research firm Dell’Oro Group.
Get your JAVA today
August 27, 2007 by
The AP reports that today is the day that Sun Microsystems flushes its old ticker symbol — SUNW — in favor of the trendier JAVA. Sun’s stock is off 10% since January, and is off its February 2007 high by over 20%. Seems faddish and pointless to me. Sun is not the Java company; I […]
Weekly Takeout for August 18
August 26, 2007 by
In this week’s episode AMD and Intel duke it out with dueling chip and technology announcements, DARPA drops support for productivity research, TACC starts an international supercomputing group, IBM broadens support for Solaris, China gets new Blue, optical quantum computing takes another step forward, new chip cooling technology, and stocks. Listen to the podcast. Subscribe […]
HP leads blade server market
August 24, 2007 by
From HPCwire this week HP extended its lead in the worldwide blade server market in both total blade server units shipped and factory revenue, according to second calendar quarter 2007 server market figures released today by industry analyst firm IDC. HP significantly increased its lead as the No. 1 blade server vendor in the period […]
"Cluster" no longer a meaningful designation?
August 24, 2007 by
Writing in HPCwire last week Addison Snell argues briefly that it’s more meaningful to denote when a supercomputer isn’t a cluster than when it is, and looks at three new HPC startups: SiCortex, Liquid Computing, and Convey. I hadn’t heard of Convey.
