Earlier this week IBM, Intel, and Cisco announced that they’re teaming up to open a new HPC center in Montpellier, France. The expanded state-of-the-art HPC center will offer customers, business partners and independent software vendors the ability to test and benchmark analytic software, engineering, aerospace design and other high-performance applications. The announcement and equipment complement […]
Archives for January 2008
Daily Takeout for January 24
January 24, 2008 by
Today’s Takeout is all SGI with news of new gear being installed in China and here at home at PSC. You can find the stories at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/21/sgi-installs-chinas-largest-shared-memory-machine/ and http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/17/psc-buys-new-sgi-supers/. Download the podcast. Subscribe to the podcast feed. Subscribe in iTunes. Listen [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/insidehpc/insideHPC_Daily_Takeout_01242008.mp3]
SGI Names Senior VP of Software
January 23, 2008 by
SGI has named Irene Qualters senior vice president of software. Qualters will be responsible for all software-related activities, including recent efforts to develop and productize the SGI Industrial Strength Linux Environment [ISLE]. Through over 20 years of industry experience, she has held leadership positions at Cray Research, SGI and Merck & Co. She has also […]
Panasas Earns 'Intel Cluster Ready' Certification
January 23, 2008 by
Panasas, provider of parallel storage solutions for high performance computing applications, has announced that its ActiveStor Storage Cluster has earned the Intel Cluster Ready certification. This marks the first parallel storage solution to be certified as part of the Intel Cluster Ready program. The goal of the program is to allow users to acquire and […]
Daily Takeout for January 23
January 23, 2008 by
It’s installation Wednesday on the takeout, with news of SiCortex’s first deskside customer ship, and Japan’s new 95 TFLOPS Appro super. You can find the stories at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/22/sicortex-delivers-first-sc072-deskside/ and http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/22/university-of-tsukuba-selects-appro-xtreme-x/. Download the podcast. Subscribe to the podcast feed. Subscribe in iTunes. Listen [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/insidehpc/insideHPC_Daily_Takeout_01232008.mp3]
HPC in Financial Markets
January 22, 2008 by
Amid the recent stock market woes, I’ve decided to post a bit of a summary on how a few top HPC constituent vendors are weathering the market(s). As you can see, the two HPC-centric vendors [Cray and SGI] actually closed the day at or above peak trading values. Overall, the remainder of the listed companies […]
Daily Takeout for January 22
January 22, 2008 by
Today’s takeout brings news of the release of the latest version of the “What is HPC?” presentation. Love it? Hate it? Let me know by sending me email at john@insidehpc.com. You can find more details on this alpha and the ideas behind the project on this page: http://insidehpc.com/hpccan. Download the podcast. Subscribe to the podcast […]
ORNL Spawns Baby-Jaguar
January 22, 2008 by
Oak Ridge National Lab’s Jaguar is in the middle of receiving a serious upgrade. Apparently, in the process, mother Jaguar has spawned a baby. The reconfigured Cray XT4 system hosts quad-core processors, so post-upgrade, the system will only require 84 of the existing 124 cabinets to achieve 250 Teraflops. Rather than putting the additional 40 […]
SiCortex Delivers First SC072 Deskside
January 22, 2008 by
SiCortex has announced that it has shipped the first SC072 Catapult personal cluster. The proud recipients are Professors Gyan Bhanot and Manish Parashar at Rutgers University. The 72-processor deskside system will be used to develop a new computer science and engineering course at Rutgers, to develop novel algorithms to study mitochondrial and viral evolution and […]
University of Tsukuba Selects Appro Xtreme-X
January 22, 2008 by
Japan’s University of Tsukuba has selected Appro’s Xtreme-X supercomputer for its next generation HPC platform. The 95 Teraflop Xtreme-X3 supercomputer will be located in the center of Tsukuba Science City. Appro will partner with Cray Technical Services and Sumisho Computer Systems to deliver the system and service to the Center of Computational Sciences at the […]
