Baylor University announced the $1.25 million purchase of a new Hewlett-Packard cluster. The new machine, named Kodiak, is directed toward the particle physics research lead by Dr. Walter Wilcox. Baylor also hopes that the new cluster will deliver enough compute to join the High Performance Computing Across Texas group [HiPCAT]. This will allow researchers at […]
Archives for September 2007
Clearspeed/Sun Announce Partnership
September 27, 2007 by
Clearspeed has announced a partnership with Sun Microsystems to deliver their Advance accelerator boards for Sun high performance computing applications. Most recently, the marriage of Clearspeed and Sun yielded 48 TFLOPS at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Our partnership with ClearSpeed means that we can offer even better and more efficient performance to our customers”, […]
SGI Announces Latest Network Attached Storage Family
September 27, 2007 by
SGI announced the inclusion of their latest NAS storage device to their line of InfiniteStorage products. The NEXIS NAS family of storage devices is based upon their XFS file system. Included in the package is the new SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager graphical user interface. “SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS gets the best performance and value possible […]
First Blue Gene/P plugged in
September 26, 2007 by
Hot of the presses at HPCwire, the first of IBM’s newly revved Blue Gene line (announced in June), the BG/P, has gone on line in Germany. The Garching Computing Center of the Max Planck Society (RZG) has announced the installation of the first IBM Blue Gene/P system. The system was contracted last year and is […]
World's 5 largest SANs
September 26, 2007 by
ByteandSwitch.com is hunting for the world’s five largest SANs. The list so far? JPMorganChase U.S. Department of Defense NASA San Diego Supercomputer Center Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory DoD? Hey, that’s us! Not really…this is the enterprise side of DoD, not the HPC side, and it dwarfs anything we’ve got in HPC. It’s a meta-SAN A […]
Verari offers new server/storage rack
September 26, 2007 by
Verari announced earlier this week that they’re launching a new combo rack aimed at companies that offer data intensive services to their customers (or users) Each Verari Systems SB5255 DataServer consists of a SB1205 server blade and two SB1056 disk blades. The SB1205 server blade delivers exceptional processing power via high performance dual-socket, quad-core processors […]
Lions, tigers, and algorithms…oh my!
September 26, 2007 by
Sun’s HPC Watercooler tipped me off to an article on algorithms over at Economist.com. The article begins thusly ALGORITHMS sound scary, of interest only to dome-headed mathematicians. Ah me, that IS scary. Anyway, the article does offer a review of some of the things that businesses are doing with those supercomputers they’re buying, without actually […]
Update: Woven's new growth spurt
September 25, 2007 by
After Andy posted the basics on Woven’s new $20M round of venture funding I had a chance to talk with them this afternoon. This is a really interesting company with great technology, and it looks like they are really poised for growth: about 6 weeks ago Woven added a new CEO with strong growth experience; […]
Cray J. Henry: HPC and commmodity computing finally share common goal via multicore
September 25, 2007 by
Cray J. Henry (Director of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program) has an article at GCN discussing how multicore, or specifically the software implications of multicore, are finally bringing a shared goal to supercomputing and commodity computing. He concludes: “As the computing community struggles with this latest transition, we’re finally at a […]
Criminals control 4 Petaflops supercomputer
September 25, 2007 by
Zdnet reports that the botnet created by the Storm Worm trojan is a more powerful distributed supercomputer than any listed on the Top500. The botnet created by Storm Worm trojan is estimated to have captured between 1 and 10 million CPUs. Taking a conservative 2GHz processor, this adds up to at least 4 Petaflops of […]
