Francine Berman, writing in this month’s EDUCAUSE Review, encourages sustained, focused investment in cybinfrastructure. However, CI in the academic sector often falls short of its remarkable potential. Comprised of dynamically evolving information technologies, CI is both a continuous work-in-progress and a stable infrastructure driver for invention and innovation. It is this duality, as well as […]
Archives for July 2008
AGU Fall Meeting
July 29, 2008 by
The American Geophysical Union [AGU] has announced details on their upcoming fall meeting. The December event is expected to draw a crowd of over 15,000 geophysicists from all around the world. I’m not going to list the individual program events here, as the list is simply too long! I will, however, mention a track that […]
IBM's blades in Rackable's can
July 29, 2008 by
IBM and Rackable announced yesterday (my dad’s birthday…hi dad!) that IBM’s BladeCenter servers will be offered in Rackable’s ICE Cube modular data center. The ICE Cube modular data center solution will be outfitted with IBM BladeCenter T or HT systems, which meet Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS) Level 3/ European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) requirements, so […]
Dallas/Fort-Worth HPC Users Group
July 29, 2008 by
I know, I know… selfish plug… but I just couldn’t help myself. For those of you who don’t know me personally, I’m currently a resident of the Dallas/Fort-Worth Texas metroplex. Over the years, I’ve come to know quite a few local HPC-ites. We’ve paid careful attention to keeping tabs on one another. Occasionally, we meet […]
Hello number 2,001!
July 29, 2008 by
I’ve been watching the counter on this for months and almost missed it today. This is post number 2,001 at insideHPC.com since our founding at the end of December, 2006. I didn’t want to pollute post 2,000 (which was real news) with this navel gazing. I want to thank you all for tuning in, making […]
HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed [UPDATED]
July 29, 2008 by
This just in, as the kids say. The three companies have announced a joint test bed that expands upon previous commitments by them to spur development of cloud computing software The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data […]
Cray Set to Announce Q2 2008 Financial Results on July 31
July 29, 2008 by
For those of you with Cray stock, they’re set to announce their Q2 2008 financial results on July 31. For more info on how to join the call, check out the post on CNN-Money.
Adoption of hybrid supers for corporate apps
July 29, 2008 by
TechWorld.com has a good article today on the desire of the enterprise for ever more supercomputing power, with a specific slant on hybrid (accelerators giving an assist to AMD or Intel CPUs) systems and the challenges their adoption faces in business At this point, a major retailer probably wouldn’t want to use a large hybrid […]
Largest-Scale Fusion Energy Simulation on ORNL's Jaguar
July 29, 2008 by
Cray has announced a recent project conducted by the researchers at the University California-Irvine [UCI] that have performed the largest-ever fusion energy simulation. The simulation was run on the Cray XT4 named Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Lab [ORNL]. Fusion holds the promise of a revolutionary new energy source for the world, and this important […]
Finding SiCortex's sweet spot
July 29, 2008 by
Jon Van writes at the Chicago Tribune this week about Purdue’s adventures with its new SiCortex Purdue University this summer installed a new kind of supercomputer made by SiCortex of Boston that uses 40 times less power than a traditional supercomputer does. Argonne National Laboratory also has one. Gerry McCartney, Purdue’s CIO, says the university […]
