Dan Reed points to my article on HPC procurements and non-recoverable engineering expenses at HPCwire last week, and amplifies some of what I attributed to him along with a pointer to a recent essay at SIAM News that you’ll want to read. By the way, HPCwire has a spiffy new web site that allows you […]
Archives for April 2008
Schwartz on commercial adoption of HPC
April 29, 2008 by
eWeek.com has an article on Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s comments last week at the Web 2.0 Expo. From the article The CEO, charged with driving Sun forward in an increasingly competitive market where systems vendors are turning their attention to Internet-based—or cloud—computing, cast aside the idea that companies just want several one-way “pizza box” servers. […]
Cray and Intel Collaboration
April 28, 2008 by
Cray and Intel have announced today that they have inked a multi-year agreement to advance high performance computing on Intel microprocessors. What what what!? Cray will deliver these advancements on their future supercomputing platforms. We’re excited at the potential of bringing together Intel’s powerful silicon expertise and Cray’s industry leadership in scalable HPC systems,” said […]
Papaya Genome Sequencing Project and SGI
April 28, 2008 by
The International Papaya Genome Consortium, led by researchers at the University of Hawaii have announced the completion of the Papaya Genome Sequencing Project. The two year effort utilized SGI Altix and InfiniteStorage products to sequence 372 million base pairs. This makes the disease-resistant “SunUp” papaya to be the first fruit and the first transgenic crop […]
Colfax to Offer Infiniband Bridging Technology
April 28, 2008 by
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. today announced that Colfax International will offer its NX5000 series of Infiniband bridging solutions. What is Infiniband bridging you say? Its essentially the idea of encapsulating the various Infiniband protocols and paradigms over long-haul transfer mediums. In using this technology, one can create very high bandwidth [RDMA] virtual clusters and networks […]
Expanding South Africa's Supercomputing Infrastructure [in a big way]
April 27, 2008 by
Carnarvon, a small South African town on the Northern Cape, is only home to 10,000 people. It could also be home to the next South African supercomputing centre courtesy of the Square Kilometre Array [SKA] project. The SKA is a project designed to put 3,000 to 5,000 dish radio telescopes in either South Africa or […]
HPC Driving Data Center Architecture Change
April 27, 2008 by
AdvancedTrading online mag has a quick blurb from TABB Group partner Bob Iati. Iati outlines how high performance computing has impacted server growth in relation to data center architecture. He outlines four main points: .: Sell side institutions are striving to create a smaller footprint in their data centers .: Nearly two thirds of all […]
IBM iDataPlex system for HPC, web
April 25, 2008 by
Again, from HPCwire IBM introduced … an entirely new category of server uniquely designed to address the technology needs of companies that use Web 2.0-style computing to operate massive datacenters with tens of thousands of servers. The system is called, oddly, iDataPlex, and has these features More than doubles the number of systems that can […]
Solicitations out for IBM/Google/NSF resources out
April 25, 2008 by
Post at HPCwire The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a solicitation for proposals for the new Cluster Exploratory (CluE) initiative. The CluE program was announced in February as a part of a relationship between Google, IBM and NSF. NSF hopes this initiative will help lead […]
Reed on Salishan
April 25, 2008 by
Dan Reed was at Salishan this week (but still took time to talk with me about the HPC marketplace, thanks Dan!) and has a great summary of what went on for all of us not in the club of luminaries who get the nod to attend. Exascale was a big topic The technology and economic […]
