Thanks to the miracle of the Beowulf mailing list, we’ve been informed of an interesting webinar event today. The event entitled, “Ask the Experts: Effective Use of Multi-core in HPC”, is being hosted by Linux Magazine and sponsored by IBM, Cisco and Intel. The one and only, Douglas Eadline will represent LinuxMag as the host. […]
Archives for December 2007
LNXI's Diskless Cluster System
December 17, 2007 by
Linux Networx just announced its latest in HPC solutions, the LS-1 for Secure Environments [LS-1 SE]. Based on their existing LS-1 product, the SE series focuses on the separation and destruction of volatile and sensitive data. The SE systems separates the storage and management nodes from compute nodes, thus putting a barrier between users and […]
Panasas ActiveStor Chosen for University of Nebraska
December 17, 2007 by
The University of Nebraska’s Holland Computing Center has chosen Panasas to anchor its new 1150 node cluster. Unveiled last week, the new cluster ranks in the Top50 of the Top500. The machine will also soon receive an upgrade to over 60 TFLOPS. We see this as a tremendous opportunity to advance the research capabilities of […]
Sun's Rock may be late
December 17, 2007 by
The Register carried a story on Friday about a possible delay in the 2008 shipping schedule for Sun’s new Rock processor Word reached Vulture Central this week of troubles in the land of Rock. Sun hoped to ship the 16-core SPARC dynamo by the end of next year. Now, however, we’re hearing that early versions […]
Acceleware Hosts HPC Investors Forum
December 17, 2007 by
Acceleware announced an event today entitled: “Investor’s Forum: The High Performance Computing Market.” Presenters include Dr. Earl Joseph, VP of IDC’s HPC Systems group, as well as key senior executives from HP, NVIDIA and Schmid & Partner Engineering AG. The event is designed to give investors an opportunity to learn about the burgeoning future of […]
4-bit quantum circuit from down under computes some roots
December 17, 2007 by
According to ZDNet Australia, scientists from the University of Queensland (Australia) have taken another step along the long path to quantum computing The quantum circuit pioneered by the Queensland researchers involves using a laser to send “entangled” photons through a linear optical circuit, White explained. Using this technology the group was able to create a […]
SGI to Resell TotalView Debugger
December 17, 2007 by
TotalView Technologies has announced that SGI will now resell its TotalView and MemoryScape debugger packages. TotalView Technologies offers best-of-breed debugging solutions that scale to meet the complexity of today’s applications,” said Bill Mannel, director of server marketing at SGI. “We believe that by working with them to address the growing needs of the high-performance computing […]
Budget update: NSF and NIST get poked, exascale computing effort designated
December 17, 2007 by
Peter Harsha over at the excellent Policy Blog of the CRA updates us today on how thought — and its handmaiden, science — are doing in the most recent budget. NSF, which under the House and Senate appropriations plans approved earlier in the year would have received either a 10 or 11 percent increase (respectively) […]
HPCwire brings AMD's year of tears into perspective
December 14, 2007 by
HPCwire editor Michael Feldman has done an outstanding job of putting together all of the pieces that AMD has broken over this past year and telling us what it means. If you’re looking for a smart, coherent overview of what went wrong this year read Michael’s article. A few choice paragraphs about what all this […]
The 18th Daresbury MEW Wrap Up
December 13, 2007 by
The 18th Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop concluded a few weeks ago, I along with fellow contributor Andrew Jones had the pleasure of attending. The event is primarily a UK event in part of the EPSRC‘s Distributed Computing Support Programme. The crowd was around 150-200 attendees comprising of mostly UK academia, regional integrators and vendors. Since […]
