Bull and IBM announced this week that they’re strengthening their 15 year relationship Effective immediately, IBM and Bull are extending their OEM agreement to integrate IBM blade servers into Bull’s Escala and NovaScale product lines. Notably, the x86-based NovaScale Blade Series systems Bull has offered since 2003 will now be procured through this OEM relationship, […]
Archives for December 2007
Obstacles in the bid to drive supercomputing to the masses
December 13, 2007 by
BusinessWeek is running a piece today on the supercomputing for the masses story. They smartly identify that it’s software — not hardware — that is the real catalyst needed to ignite that market But what may dash the dreams of Intel and other hardware makers is a lack of inexpensive, off-the-shelf software to bring supercomputing […]
AMD releases worldwide datacenter energy use survey
December 12, 2007 by
According to coverage at HPCwire today AMD has released a study revealing shifting patterns in worldwide datacenter energy. This new study forecasts that, based on current growth trends, the U.S. share of total world server electricity use from datacenters will likely decline from 40 percent in 2000 to about one-third by 2010, while the Asia/Pacific […]
OpenSPARC T2 GPL'd
December 12, 2007 by
Yes, I have decided that GPL can be a verb. The Business Wire carried a press release yesterday from Sun about their newest foray into openness Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) today delivered on the commitment it made in August by providing the OpenSPARC(TM) T2 RTL (register transfer level) processor design to the free and open […]
SiCortex rounds up more cyclists
December 12, 2007 by
In a repeat of their bicycle-powered computing stunt from September of this year at Wired NextFest, SiCortex chained together another slug of cyclists to run their gear. This time the riders were from the MIT Cycling team A team of 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology cyclists highlighted the range of energy activities at MIT in […]
SGI introduces life sciences solution
December 12, 2007 by
SGI announced yesterday that they’re releasing a new product targeted at the life sciences market SGI BioCluster, a powerful and accelerated workflow solution for pharmaceutical, life sciences and higher education researchers. The SGI BioCluster is an SGI Altix XE cluster system with PBS Pro cluster management tools and the eXludus Grid Optimizer, a new multi-core […]
New home for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data at Brookhaven
December 12, 2007 by
Storage vendor BlueArc announced today that Brookhaven National Lab has picked up some of their gear …Brookhaven National Lab (Brookhaven), a multi-program laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy, has deployed a BlueArc Titan 2200 cluster with nearly 300 terabytes of storage. The BlueArc Titan system serves as a massively scalable and reliable foundation […]
Pixels to PetaFLOPS
December 12, 2007 by
Jeffrey B. Layton has written yet another great article for Linux Magazine. In “Pixels to PetaFLOPS”, Layton presents a wonderful technical analysis on using modern graphics processors [GPUs] in HPC applications. He outlines the various hardware benefits, pitfalls and programming models surrounding one of the hottest topics in HPC. The challenges with multi-core CPUs in […]
The Register predicts HP's future
December 12, 2007 by
Ashlee Vance writing at The Register (well, he could have been writing at the Starbucks, but I’ll assume he was in an office of some sort) spills some ink postulating about HP’s HPC future. HP proves more willing than Dell to stomach risk in the HPC game and is aggressive about partnering with start-ups, since […]
The 411: NICE
December 11, 2007 by
NICE has a big presence in the European HPC market, particularly on the industrial side. Here’s the 4-1-1. Who:10 year old NICE is an Italian software company with offerings in HPC and grid management. Their software is aimed at company-wide management, optimization of computing resources, increased usability, reduced complexity for grid solutions. NICE headquarters are […]
