Ladies and gentlemen, John West was right and the ball has officially dropped. SGI has just announced that it has acquired the core assets of Linux Networx. The acquisition of patents, LNXI software, expertise and technology came in exchange for the issuance of SGI common stock. Alongside the deal is an investment into SGI by […]
Archives for February 2008
Sun reverses its 0 datacenter policy…kind of
February 14, 2008 by
Ashlee Vance writes at The Register that Sun’s CEO has, er, clarified Brian Cinque’s earlier blog post. Before the clarification, let’s review what Brian actually wrote Sun IT is driving towards a consolidated and unified data center approach by 2015, while reducing overall operating costs, overall energy consumptions, and to eliminate all SunIT data center’s. […]
A pound of flesh for Ranger delays
February 14, 2008 by
Michael Kanellos over at c|net’s News Blog had a brief dispatch yesterday on Ranger’s upcoming dedication. The piece is well done, and talks about the delays TACC has experienced fielding the system. It’s nice to see someone write something about new systems deployment that isn’t all sunshine and bluebirds. Delays? Barcelona was late and/or didn’t […]
Cray XT4 Workshop for HECToR at EPCC
February 14, 2008 by
Kudos to Rich Hickey for tossing this one over the pond. The Cray Centre of Excellence for HECToR has announced that it will hold a workshop focused towards those optimizing their codes for the Cray XT4. The three-day workshop covers topics ranging from hardware architecture, software architecture and the various techniques in optimizing one’s applications […]
IBM Wins Contract to Research Non-Thermionic Transistors
February 13, 2008 by
IBM has received a contract option worth $6.4 million under a DARPA program known as “Steep-subthreshold-slope Transistors for Electronics with Extremely-low Power (STEEP).” The end goal being to develop transistor technology that allows manufacturers to design logic circuits requiring much less power than current technologies. For the non-electrical engineering readers, traditional silicon transistor technology is […]
InsideTrack: LNXI entering the dead pool?
February 13, 2008 by
Lots of interesting gossip and rumors floating around these days about Linux Networx and something big in the air for them this week. I’ve been pumping my friends and irritating those I don’t know very well for the past 24 hours trying to find a quorum opinion on exactly what, and so far I don’t […]
Cray Technical Workshop
February 12, 2008 by
For those of us who run Crays *or* would like to run Crays *or* simply want to learn more about them, Cray is holding a technical workshop in San Francisco. Come listen to technical presentations from the likes of LANL, NERSC, LBNL, ERDC, ORNL and SDSC. [today’s word of the day is acronym]. The workshop […]
Cray Appoints New Senior VP of Sales and Marketing
February 12, 2008 by
Cray has announced that it has appointed Ian Miller the new Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Miller will be responsible for Cray sales and marketing worldwide. Prior to joining Cray, Miller was the vice president of sales for Polyserve Software at HP and vice president of sales for PolyServe prior to its acquisition […]
HP announces revved Itanium blade
February 12, 2008 by
This morning HP announced a new Integrity blade designed to handle “memory-intensive workloads.” The Integrity BL870c is HP’s first four socket Itanium blade, doubling the capabilities of the earlier 860c. You can configure a blade with four dual-core Itanium 9100s, and up to 96GB of memory. More details here. The company has also expanded its […]
HP's HPC podcast
February 12, 2008 by
If you are into “new media” as the kids in advertising say, HP has a new podcast from the HPC group. You can find it here. Two episodes up so far; I haven’t listened to them yet, but they are ready to sync to the iPhone for my next commute. If you have listened to […]
