The CRA’s Tumble Blog covered the release of the latest PCAST report The long-awaited follow-up review of the NITRD program — the first since the 1999 PITAC report Investing in Our Future — has been released and is available from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. The four big recommendations? Cribbed from […]
Archives for September 2007
Hey buddy can you spare a Gigabyte?
September 12, 2007 by
I’m currently hard at work building a new monster home PC for a shiny copy of Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit (no comments from the peanut gallery…please) that I picked up during a trip to see Microsoft last month. In the course of sourcing the components, because no self respecting engineer buys a complete turnkey PC, […]
ROCKS "Office Hours" User Support
September 12, 2007 by
The generous developers of the ever-so-popular, open source cluster toolkit ROCKS have announced a new reason to buy them a coffee at SuperComputing. Beginning, Friday, September 14, the ROCKS team will be holding one-on-one live conversations with a core developer. Throw them your toughest support questions on installing, managing and extending the ROCKS cluster toolkit […]
Microway announces support for Quad-core Opteron
September 11, 2007 by
Following the recent AMD Barcelona kickoff, Microway announced its new Navion-QQ server platform. The Navion-QQ comes configured with 4 or 8 quad-core AMD chips and sports up to 128GB of RAM. The Navion-QQ is idealy suited for enterprise database applications as well as memory intensive HPC applications such as computational fluid dynamics, digital signal processing […]
Dell unveils iSCSI support
September 11, 2007 by
Dell has unveiled its support for the iSCSI storage protocol in its MD3000i line of storage appliances. The device can support up to four [4] 1Gb/s ethernet connections in high availability models. Maximum capacity sits at 6TB using 15 400GB SAS drives. Additional capacity can be gained via MD1000 expansion units. The primary application for […]
Intel Adds Its 20,000,000,000 Cents
September 11, 2007 by
Even with the blitz of Barcelona news from AMD and their OEM partners, Intel is making sure they’re not forgotten. The Associated Press reported that Intel uncharacteristically released a mid-quarter financial update on the same day AMD introduced their new quad-core processors. From the AP article: “It’s kind of ironic timing, don’t you think?” said Jim […]
VMs on a Diet
September 11, 2007 by
Fresh from watching Dan Marino pitching his weight loss system during commercials on Monday Night Football is a story from the Ashlee Vance at The Register on an extremely thin version from one of the flagship VM products: VMWare ESX Server. This version is currently weighing in at a trim 32MB that is implemented via […]
In a Virtual World, Latency Can Be Deadly
September 10, 2007 by
The same kind of high performance, low latency computing technologies used by stock traders is attracting the attention of companies building massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). A Computerworld article highlights some of the challenges faced by MMOG systems, which may host tens of thousands of concurrent players: In rapid-fire stock trading, a minuscule amount of […]
Sun's got Opteron inside
September 10, 2007 by
Today Sun completed the matched pair of announcements it started last week with its 2U quad quad-core Intel Xeon 7300 server. Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module, the world’s first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Sun also previewed a next-generation four-socket, 2U quad-core server that will be […]
Cray XT4 with quad-core Opteron
September 10, 2007 by
Alongside AMD’s announcement today Cray is reminding everyone that it’s XT4 product — complete with quad-core Opteron inside — is supposed to ship “by year end.” “Our customers are already achieving breakthrough results with the Cray XT4 system and quad-core technology will allow them to solve more complex problems faster, doing more accurate simulations,” said […]
