If you’re keeping up with Sun’s HPC moves, you’ll probably want to at least skim over the presentations from their recent Consortium meeting. What is the Sun HPC Consortium? The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on […]
Archives for November 2007
Cray Endows Graduate Fellowship at Rice
November 27, 2007 by
Cray and Rice University announced today the first Cray HPC graduate fellowship fund has been awarded to Mackale Joyner in honor of the late Ken Kennedy. Cray endowed the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship Fund with $150,000 gift. The fund will help support graduate students with a preference towards high performance computing. From his pioneering […]
IBM Unveils 'Cloud Computing' Offering
November 26, 2007 by
IBM today announced a series of cloud computing offerings named “Blue Cloud.” Initially targeted at enterprise customers, Blue Cloud will be based on open standards and open source software supported by IBM systems, software and services. It will also include Xen and PowerVM virtualized Linux operating system images and Hadoop parallel workload scheduling. Blue Cloud […]
Microsoft Windows Memory Requirements
November 26, 2007 by
I stumbled upon an interesting post on a Windows Vista blog site regarding the posted memory requirements for the various Windows operating system flavors. It seems that Windows HPC Server 2008 actually requires less memory to run than the standard version of Windows Vista. Windows Vista requires *at least* 1GB of memory [except for the […]
Cornell finds new human genes with HPC
November 23, 2007 by
From HPCwire Using supercomputers to compare portions of the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers at Cornell have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes, and found extensions of several hundred genes already known. …More than 20,000 protein-coding genes have been identified, so the Cornell contribution, while significant, doesn’t dramatically change the number […]
Panasas adds support for Win HPC
November 23, 2007 by
This was announced during SC, but I don’t think we covered it and I think it’s worth a mention. From Panasas’ web site Panasas, Inc.,…announced that it is working to provide the benefits of Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters to the Microsoft Windows Cluster Compute Server (CCS) platform. Panasas will port its DirectFLOW protocol and […]
InsideTrack: Google making its own 10GbE switches in secret?
November 21, 2007 by
The InsideTrack was recently pointed to Nyquist Capital’s blog, and their speculation that Google is building their own big switches. It is our opinion that Google (GOOG) has designed and deployed home-grown 10GbE switches as part of a secret internal initiative that was launched when it realized commercial options couldn’t meet the cost and power […]
RedHat and Platform Announce Partnership
November 21, 2007 by
RedHat has announced that it has partnered with Platform Computing to jointly offer a new product geared toward HPC, the RedHat HPC solution. The new product will fully integrate the Platform’s Open Cluster Stack and RedHat Enterprise Linux. Platform’s 15 years of expertise deploying high-performance clusters, combined with the performance and stability of Red Hat […]
Petascale apps presentations online
November 21, 2007 by
NCSA has made presentations from the petascale apps BOF it hosted at SC07 available. Click here for details.
SC07 in a Nutshell
November 21, 2007 by
Now that most of have finally recovered from last week’s annual Supercomputing show, InsideHPC has decided to compile a list of the various bits we [and others] covered during the show. This list is by no means comprehensive. If your event/press release/etc doesn’t appear here, we’re not picking on you. If you feel like you’ve […]
