The DailyTech reports that Monday was the launch for AMD’s Spider platform. Spider = Phenom processors + ATI Radeon HD 3800 + AMD 7-Series desktop chipsets. [The 9500 and 9600 series] Phenom processors are part of AMD’s first-generation, 65nm Stars family. In the second-half of 2008 AMD will announce its second-generation Stars family, which will […]
Archives for November 2007
AMD chief: on the way out?
November 20, 2007 by
TheStreet.com is reporting on rumors that AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is on the way out. With AMD’s financial performance and share price slumping, talk of a management change is in the air. Speculation has been heightened by recent events, including the exit of investor relations head Mike Hasse, and the September departure of sales chief […]
Wired coverage of SC
November 20, 2007 by
Always interesting to see an outside publication cover our little hot house ecosystem. Case in point: story at Wired, with pics.
Liquid cooled IBM p575
November 20, 2007 by
So, I missed this on the show floor, but evidently IBM was showing off a liquid cooled version of a Power6 system. ZDNet’s George Ou has some details, with pics. At the SC07 supercomputing conference (image gallery) in Reno Nevada, IBM previewed the liquid cooled 32-core 4.7 GHz System p 575 Power6 supercomputer last night […]
FY08 Defense appropriations summary, and a chart
November 20, 2007 by
Peter Harsha and the team at the CRA’s Policy Blog have a great summary of the 2008 Defense approps bill that just passed last week. And there’s a chart: check it out. On Tuesday (Nov. 13th), the President signed the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations conference report, making that bill the first of the twelve FY […]
Interesting Lustre stat
November 20, 2007 by
According to Marc Hamilton and a post on his blog you can’t swing a stick in the Top500 and not hit Lustre filesystem, at least at the top While the often quoted Top500 list doesn’t list file systems used, we did a bit of our own research and found that at least 5 of the […]
The Green Top500 list
November 20, 2007 by
I’ve been checking this web site regularly for a long time, so I’m happy to report that the Green500 list is out! Congratulations guys. From their site The inaugural Green500 List was announced on November 15, 2007 at SC|07. As a complement to the TOP500, the unveiling of the Green500 ushers in a new era […]
LNXI announces Solution Center for mid market customers
November 20, 2007 by
LNXI has just announced its new Solution Center, part of their recently announced VPE effort. Before purchases are made, LNXI engineers use the Solution Center’s production-ready HPC systems to assess an organization’s HPC needs and provide the best possible support in order to deliver a production-ready solution. LNXI offers access to its Solution Center for […]
AMD gets cash infusion from Middle East firm
November 20, 2007 by
In a sign that it is facing increasing financial pressure, PCWorld reported on Friday of last week that AMD has taken a $622M investment from Mubadala Development Company, an investment company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mubadala bought 49 million newly-issued shares of AMD, although the investment does not put the development company […]
Livermore team wins Gordon Bell
November 20, 2007 by
In case you missed it, a team from Livermore and IBM won the Gordon Bell at SC07. Complete news from HPCwire. Here’s the nut Using groundbreaking computational techniques, a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM earned the 2007 Gordon Bell Prize for a first-of-a-kind simulation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in molten metals […]
