Interactive Supercomputing announced earlier this week that Star-P will support Windows HPC Server 2008. A preview of the software was shown at the High Performance on Wall Street Conference in New York (see, I got the name right this time). Star-P is an application development platform that allows scientists, engineers and analysts to code algorithms […]
Archives for September 2008
PRACE industry seminar
September 26, 2008 by
This happened early in September, so it’s not exactly news anymore, but I wanted to cover it briefly anyway. On Sep 3 PRACE hosted a one-day seminar focusing on HPC as a catalyst for European industrial competitiveness. One of PRACE’s targets is to increase the interest for high-end computing and its potential for competitiveness as […]
Cloud Computing on Wall Street Conference
September 26, 2008 by
SYS-CON Events announced today that the first Cloud Computing on Wallstreet will take place March 22-24, 2009 in New York City. Event organizers are hoping to attract over 1,000 visitors to the event. The Cloud Computing on Wall Street Conference & Expo is the leading event covering the booming market of Cloud Computing for the […]
IBM's new datacenter dashboard
September 25, 2008 by
A quickie from IBM about the rev of their IBM Systems Director software to 6.1 IBM…announced an “intelligent dashboard” that will allow clients to view, maintain and adjust the energy consumption, performance, and hardware utilization of their multi-system, virtualized environment — all in a single view. …The next-generation IBM Systems Director software now has integrated […]
Tilera revamps chip in attempt to scale memory wall
September 25, 2008 by
News from The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan that Tilera has updated the Tile64 chip announced last year The Tile64 chip announced last year and the TilePro64 and TilePro36 kickers announced this week are not based on any existing processor cores and their associated instruction sets. The chips embody a new core that was designed from […]
A correction wherein I apologize for mangling the conference name
September 25, 2008 by
Ok, I owe you an apology. The name of the event is High Performance on Wall Street, not HPC on Wall Street. Sigh. Sorry. Feel free to point and laugh when you see me at SC.
IBM adds visualization to On Demand offering, too
September 25, 2008 by
A couple days ago I posted about IBM’s $99 Windows HPC Server test drive. Something I missed in the release is the addition of visualization services for remote users IBM also said that it would make available to on-demand users its high-end 3D visualization engine known as Deep Computing Visualization (DCV). Already used by clients […]
Feeds fixed and email updates should resume Thursday
September 24, 2008 by
Ok, so I think I’ve figured out what was going on. During the upgrade to the latest and greatest WordPress my FeedBurner re-route plugin stopped working, and FeedBurner lost contact with my blog. You may not have seen a difference in the RSS feed, depending upon how you subscribed, but email updates stopped because as […]
Feed and email update weirdness
September 24, 2008 by
A reader just emailed to let me know that he hasn’t been getting the daily email updates for a couple weeks. I’m looking into it…looks like some aspect of my FeedBurner setup is hosed. Hope to have all that back on the air quickly. Sorry for the trouble.
Cray has a new face on the web
September 24, 2008 by
Didn’t notice this before, but Cray has a new web site. Nice, modern feel with Flash content and the bells and whistles you’d expect of a consumer site, not a stodgy HPC manufacturer. IBM and HP’s HPC teams are trapped in the hell of enterprise standards in large companies. Cray and SGI aren’t, but their […]
