Woven released a technical note this week summarizing the results of tests comparing a 36 node (quad socket, dual core AMD nodes) system cabled with DDR InfiniBand and a 10 GbE with Woven’s 144-port EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch. You can find the full report here. Despite the theoretical advantage of IB’s lower latency and […]
Archives for February 2008
InsideTrack: Letter from SGI to LNXI customers
February 19, 2008 by
The letter linked below was sent from SGI to Linux Networx customers, and the InsideTrack secured a copy through its vast network of industry insiders. The letter, from SGI Global Services VP Bob Pette, outlines what LNXI customers can expect. A few highlights of interest. First, SGI’s take on what happened Today SGI announced the […]
TeraGrid Conference 2008
February 19, 2008 by
The TeraGrid folks have announced the details for their third annual TeraGrid conference, TeraGrid ’08. For those that didn’t know, the TeraGrid is a partnership of 11 organizations, funded by the National Science Foundation to provide an open, integrated computational resource for scientific research. The TeraGrid conference will “showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of […]
Cray Wins 4 of 5 DoD HPCMP Systems
February 19, 2008 by
Cray has announced that it has been awarded contracts to provide four out of five possible systems in support for the 2008 Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program technology resfreshment cycle [DoD HPCMP TI-08…. welcome to acronym hell]. The $30 million contract is one of the largest ever DoD HPCMP system awards to […]
What does SGI want with LNXI, anyway?
February 18, 2008 by
HPCwire has a story from Tabor analysts Addison Snell and Chris Willard with some thoughts on what in the hell anyone on either side of this deal was thinking. Before we get started on that, though, I wanted to ask about this line from the story SGI struggled famously for 10 years and emerged from […]
New Mexico Supercomputer Completes First Test Run
February 14, 2008 by
As they say in parenting, baby steps. New Mexico’s large SGI Altix ICE supercomputer completed its first scientific application run by an outside user on Wednesday. “Encanto” completed a weather forecast run for Professor Joseph Galewsky’s weather forecasting project. Galewsky, a Professor at University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was tracking […]
Remembering the families of LNXI
February 14, 2008 by
As relayed in comments on my speculative post yesterday, and in our coverage earlier this afternoon, LNXI has indeed ceased to be. I hope you’ll join me in remembering the families that depended on LNXI as they go through this time of hardship and stress.
New storage company
February 14, 2008 by
I meant to cover this all week, but I kept not getting to it. Michael covered it at HPCwire, so you might want to read the whole thing there. The new company is named Atrato, which is fine, but its URL is attrocious: www.atrato-Inc.com. Good Lord, a hyphen AND an “inc.” $18M in initial funding, […]
Network.com adds apps
February 14, 2008 by
Sun sent a Valentine to potential Network.com customers today as it expanded the range of apps available on its cycle renting service. Sun added 14 new applications including …open source application Blender, an integrated suite of tools for modeling, rendering, animation, post-production, creation and playback of interactive 3D content. …Other notable new open source applications […]
Cray reports Q4 results; posts loss
February 14, 2008 by
Cray posted financial results today for the fourth quarter and all of 2007. They lost money in the quarter and for the year: Revenue for the quarter was $57.4 million compared to $101.4 million in the prior year period. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of ($3.6 million) or ($0.11) per share […]
