After the initial salvo of stories of SGI suing ATI, all has been quiet as both sides went through the discovery process. The Inquirer has published a story revealing that a reluctant Dell has been dragged into the litigation. Dell apparently wanted to stay out of the legal fracas, but has been served a subpoena […]
Archives for December 2007
Intel opens Fibre Channel over Ethernet software
December 19, 2007 by
From Intel yesterday Intel Corporation has released a software initiator package to drive the development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solutions for the Linux* operating system. FCoE is a proposed specification that will allow Fibre Channel SAN traffic to run over Ethernet. By consolidating LAN and SAN traffic onto a single fabric, FCoE will […]
MS turning to new media for HPC Server education
December 19, 2007 by
In what I hope will be an increasing trend among all vendors, Microsoft is taking a lesson from Sun’s solo presence in new media* to talk about its HPC products. They’ve got video up on the famous Channel 9 site covering job scheduling and RDMA in HPC Server 2008. New Job Scheduler Features with Windows […]
Congress rolls back 2 years of science policy progress
December 19, 2007 by
Peter Harsha updates us on the status of science and innovation policy in the funding omnibus currently moving through Congress. Cameron Wilson at USACM’s Technology Policy Blog has a great dissection of the FY2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill in which Congress managed to reverse two years worth of positive efforts in science and innovation funding policy. […]
HLRN Buys Large SGI
December 19, 2007 by
SGI has announced that it recently inked a new contract to deliver a series of SGI Altix systems to the North German Group for High and Highest-Performance Computers [HLRN]. The new machine will operate at over 60 times faster than the current HLRN compute resources. Using pooled financial resources from the six German states, the […]
Job Cuts in NNSA
December 19, 2007 by
The National Nuclear Safety Administration [NNSA] has announced that in the next decade, one in five jobs at two of their New Mexico national laboratories will be cut. The NNSA has developed a plan to reduce the size and scope of the nuclear weapons complex for a post-Cold War world. In theory, the plan ensures […]
Purdue to Offer Supercomputing Classes
December 18, 2007 by
Purdue has announced that it is in the process of developing courses that focus on high performance computing. The specialized courses will be offered through the Department of Computer and Information Technology. The courses are scheduled to start in the spring semester where each student will construct a small machine [read cluster]. The components used […]
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Selects Cray
December 18, 2007 by
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has announced that it has selected a Cray XT4 supercomputer for its next compute platform. The 27 TFLOP machine will be housed at the NAOJ’s Center for Computational Astrophysics in order to study star formation and the origin of the solar system. The huge time and spatial scales associated […]
InsideTrack: Linux Networx changing its name?
December 17, 2007 by
John Leidel posted earlier today about the Linux Networx diskless system, but an industry insider tipped me off to a little inconsistency. There’s an interesting nugget on the interwebs today about the company hidden in this release. If you look at the press release for this announcement on the company’s site, you’ll see it begins […]
Opinion: HPC needs a new relationship with its chip vendors
December 17, 2007 by
I’ve posted an opinion piece on HPC, and the relationship of our vendors with the chip manufacturers, over at InfoWorld. Here’s the nut Chip manufacturers have long missed schedules and produced chips that only sometimes work as advertised. But, as big compute grows up and is adopted in departments and enterprises throughout the business landscape, […]
