SC07: NVIDIA has announced a new version of its CUDA API for harnessing the power of GPU’s in computation. This latest version of the CUDA software suite includes support for 64-bit Windows XP and starting with the release of CUDA 1.1, NVIDIA’s standard display drivers will include the CUDA driver, eliminating the need to install […]
Archives for November 2007
Yahoo to Push Supercomputing
November 14, 2007 by
It appears Yahoo is opening up some of it’s computer infrastructure for supercomputing reasearch. Sunnyvale-based Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) said the program is intended to leverage its leadership in Hadoop, an open source distributed computing sub-project of the Apache Software Foundation, to enable researchers to modify and evaluate the systems software running on a 4,000 processor supercomputer […]
Moab Software Makes Windows/Linux Hybrid Clustering Possible
November 14, 2007 by
The saying goes, “You can’t eat your cake and have it too”, well Forbes says you can. “Hybrid Windows and Linux clusters increase the number of addressable users and improve cluster efficiency,” said Shawn Hansen, Director of HPC marketing at Microsoft. “With Moab, customers can increase their productivity and utilization and broaden their reach by […]
DataDirect Announces S2A9900 Storage System
November 13, 2007 by
SC07: DataDirect Networks today announced the release of their 8th generation Silicon Storage Architecture [S2A]. The S2A9900 will deliver a sustained bandwidth of 6 GB/s [yes… gigabyte!] per appliance. The 9900 is the first storage system to support 8Gbps Fibre Channel as well as 20 Gbps DDR host connections. The system also utilizes the latest […]
Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Windows HPC Server 2008
November 13, 2007 by
SC07: Microsoft Corp just announced the public beta release of its Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system and toolset. HPC Server 2008 is the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and is based on the next generation Windows 2008 Server platform. The key features in this release are high-speed networking tools, scalable cluster management […]
Mellanox announces new switch architecture, up to 40 Gbps
November 13, 2007 by
SC07: Yesterday InfiniBand silicon purveyor Mellanox Technology announced its new InfiniScale IV switch architecture New switch systems based on the InfiniScale IV architecture supporting up to 40Gb/s per port and 120Gb/s for inter-switch links are expected to be available in the latter part of 2008 from several leading server and infrastructure system OEMs. InfiniScale IV […]
What the Nov 2007 Top500 tells us
November 13, 2007 by
The semiannual update of the Top500 list of the world’s fastest HPL supercomputers was released at SC in Reno this week. In possibly our longest report yet, InsideHPC takes a look at the phenomenon of the Top 500 list and the latest top 20 systems. Updated in June and November of each year, the Top500 […]
HP announces Cluster Platform Workgroup System for mid-market
November 13, 2007 by
SC07: HP announced its Cluster Platform Workgroup System today from SC07 in Reno. Built on the HP BladeSystem c3000 the systems are designed to bring HPC to small and medium-sized businesses. Built on the HP BladeSystem c3000, the system delivers almost a teraflop per second of computing power while occupying only two square feet of […]
View From the Show
November 12, 2007 by
SC07: As you all have probably already guessed, this week is the annual IEEE/ACM Supercomputing conference being held in Reno, Nevada. Many of the InsideHPC staff will be on hand to give you the latest jive of the HEC/HPC industry at large. However, several of our close colleagues could not make the show this year. […]
QLogic's HPC strategy in one news release
November 12, 2007 by
SC07: If you’d like a one stop shop for a read on QLogic’s HPC networking strategy, look no further than a handy press release they let loose today. You can find it here. Items you’ll find covered include The new DDR IB HCA An InfiniBand Switch Designed for Oracle Clusters Improved Bandwidth and Scalability for […]
