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Archives for August 2007
IBM helps establish Multicore Computing Center
August 24, 2007 by
IBM announced this week that it is working with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to create The Multicore Computing Center (MCC), a unique facility that will focus on supercomputing research related to aerospace/defense, financial services, medical imaging and weather/climate change prediction. IBM awarded UMBC a significant gift to support the development of this […]
Sun includes transactional memory in Rock
August 24, 2007 by
Ashlee Vance at The Register is reporting that Sun has confirmed that Rock, Sun’s next generation processor due out in the second half of 2008, will include transactional memory. At its most basic level, TM routes around today’s lock-based programming model where developers use a variety of techniques to stop software threads from accessing shared […]
AMD marketing chief leaves PC industry
August 24, 2007 by
AMD announced this week that Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Henri Richard is leaving the company in September 2007. Word from The Register is that he’ll leave Sept 8, just 2 days before the Sept 10 launch of Barcelona. The Reg also reports that Richard is leaving the PC industry. AMD’s spin is positive, but […]
HP's announcements at LinuxWorld
August 24, 2007 by
IT Director has a summary of HP’s announcements at the recently concluded LinuxWorld 2007. Quickly: the Parallel Compositing Library visualization software, the addition of Xen and guest operating system support for Debian to the HP Partner Virtualization Program, and the expansion of its Pay-Per-Use flexible pricing model.
Tilera's 64-core mesh chip
August 24, 2007 by
There’s been a lot of discussion during my time away this week about the new product from Tilera, a 64-core chip aimed at embedded tasks like video, routers, and security processing. Tilera’s press page points to much of the discussion, and their announcement is here. The Register has this to say The Silicon Valley-based start-up’s […]
Multi-core revolution: real or hype-ity hype hype?
August 24, 2007 by
Michael Suess contributes to an online discussion about whether multi-core processors are creating a software “crisis” or just one more milestone along the way. Mark Nelson does not believe in the hype about multi-cores. And he is right with several of his arguments. The world is not going to end if we cannot write our […]
I'm back
August 24, 2007 by
Hi gang; I’m back from my slightly-less-than-a-week of focusing on other things. But I need to make a few changes at insideHPC.com. I truly enjoy writing for this site, and I’ve gotten great feedback this week about the extent to which you all value it as well. But the pace of posting is eating into […]
Slow (or no) posts this week
August 19, 2007 by
I’ve got a big week, and so I’m giving notice that posting will be either nonexistent or erratic this week. This web site is a big committment, and sometimes I need the energy for other things. Back next week.
But it's a dry kind of heat…
August 17, 2007 by
Researchers from Purdue University (funded by Intel) have developed a new cooling technology called ionic wind engines. This new technique promises to deliver increased heat transfer coefficients of up to 250 percent over current air cooled technologies. The technology aims to reduce the layer of stationary air above chips (no-slip layer – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_layer) as air […]
