Reader Paul Adams points the Inside Track to The Register’s Hardware site and news of Intel’s forthcoming 45nm chip, codenamed Diamondville. The news comes from Chinese language documentation posted by hardware manufacturer Asus, who plans to use the chip in a revved version of its ultra mobile Eee PC. The chip is positioned as a […]
Archives for November 2007
Bull Announces New Power6 Based Blade
November 20, 2007 by
As part of their latest push to increase the efficiency of data center infrastructures [‘Bio Data Centers’], Bull has announced the latest edition to its Escala blade server line. The EL460B blade combines the latest Power6 with up to 32GB of RAM. The latest blade fits into the Bull 9u blade chassis system [the blade […]
Got a shirt? Take a snap!
November 19, 2007 by
SC07: If you got one of the limited edition “My other computer is super” shirts at SC07 this year, take a snap of yourself wearing it and send it in. Pose in front of your organization’s supercomputer, with a hot co-worker, cool pet, or just hanging with the gang. Bonus points if you’re one of […]
Musings on who might buy SGI from scalability.org
November 16, 2007 by
In response to my earlier post about SGI minority shareholder Southpaw Asset Management’s push for the board to consider selling the company, Joe over at scalability.org riffs on who might buy SGI, who shouldn’t buy SGI, and what it all means. Joe also has a lot of valuable coverage of actual goings on at the […]
NVIDIA's first $1B quarter
November 16, 2007 by
CBR Online is carrying news of NVIDIA’s first big money quarter. From the site Graphics processor technology company Nvidia has reported a 36% increase in revenues to $1.12 billion for its third quarter of fiscal 2008, having been boosted by the strong performance of its desktop and notebook GPU product lines.
9k core SGI deployed ahead of schedule in DoD
November 16, 2007 by
According to a release posted during SC07 this week, the DoD’s latest super is big, and was deployed ahead of schedule. This is a rare bit of good news in the DoD, where deployments of large scale systems are often plagued by schedule slips and delays caused by system deployment problems. An SGI Altix 4700 […]
Indiana University Wins SC07 Bandwidth Challenge
November 16, 2007 by
SC07: The team lead by Indiana University with members from Technische Universitaet Dresden, Rochester Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, took first place in the Bandwidth Challenge at SC07. Competitors in the Bandwidth Challenge were challenged to create methods for “utilizing a high-speed network path to support end-to-end network applications […]
Inside Track: SGI shareholder wants company to seek buyer
November 15, 2007 by
An HPC industry insider pointed the Inside Track to an interesting bit of news last night about SGI. As the San Jose Mercury News reported yesterday (here), shareholder Southpaw Asset Management wants SGI’s board to find a buyer. Southpaw holds approximately 5.3% of SGI’s common stock, and disclosed their letter to SGI’s board in a […]
Platform announces OCS 5
November 14, 2007 by
SC07: From HPCwire we learn that Platform has a major rev of its Open Cluster Stack in store for users by the end of December This new version of Platform OCS is built on an open source toolkit for cluster deployment, provisioning and configuration, providing users with maximum reliability, speed and flexibility. Additionally, Platform OCS […]
ClearSpeed announces 1 TFLOP in 1U
November 14, 2007 by
SC07: As we mentioned would happen back in September, ClearSpeed has announced its ClearSpeed Accelerated Terascale System (CATS), 1 TeraFLOP in 1U This small format system, taking up just 1U in a standard server rack, delivers up to one TeraFLOP of performance, achieving the world’s highest ever compute density to date. At the conference, ClearSpeed […]
