Ian Foster posted over at his blog last week about postdocs available at Argonne National Lab The Argonne Named Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a great opportunity for a recent or imminent PhD looking to work at the cutting edge of computing. You also get a fancy title, like “Arthur Holly Compton Fellow” or similar. (There […]
Archives for September 2008
In Tents computing
September 23, 2008 by
Yesterday we had word from Nick Carr (whom I’ve never met but insist on using the familiar form of his name anyway) on a new Microsoft effort to test datacenters deployed in tents. No, seriously. We have seen data centers in semitrailers, data centers in caves, data centers in Siberia, data centers in the Las […]
The InsideTrack: Cray's CX1 partner unmasked
September 22, 2008 by
The InsideTrack loves to read email from readers, especially when said email contains information like this. When I interviewed Cray, Inc. for the HPCwire feature piece on their recently announced CX1, I asked who they were partnering with on the manufacture. I asked, but didn’t expect an answer, because companies rarely answer such questions. And […]
NVIDIA Announces 6.5% Workforce Reduction
September 19, 2008 by
NVIDIA has announced that it will be the latest addition to a long list of corporate downsizing. At the end of October, they will kindly wave goodbye to 6.5% of their workforce, or roughly 360 people. Bummer. According to company representatives, the move comes in the face of strategic growth initiatives. One such initiative is […]
Microsoft at HPC on Wall Street Conference
September 18, 2008 by
Microsoft will be out in force at the the HPC on Wall Street Conference next week, an event to which I wish I was going. From their press release it looks like they have a lot going on Keynote: Scaling Out on Wall Street, 8:40 a.m. EDT — Bill Laing, corporate vice president, Windows Server […]
Twitter experiment: get your insideHPC news on Twitter [UPDATED]
September 18, 2008 by
I’ve gotten a small but surprising response to my post about Rich’s Twittering of Sun’s HPC activity, and even picked up a few followers on my personal account. So I’m trying an experiment. I’ve created a Twitter account for insideHPC, and the idea is that every time something gets posted here the headline will automatically […]
First release of SnowFlock
September 18, 2008 by
Pointer to a thread over at hpccommunity.org announcing the first release of SnowFlock we’re releasing Snowflock to the general public. We’re making a binary and source relase, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at Snowflock – Impromptu Virtual Clusters. Briefly, Snowflock lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical […]
HPC Productivity Analyzer launched
September 18, 2008 by
Tabor Research has just launched a new tool today aimed at helping HPC teams figure out how productive they are The HPC Productivity Analyzer offers HPC organizations the ability to evaluate how well their system and organizational infrastructure contributes to overall productivity and/or time to solution. Driven by peer comparison data and sophisticated productivity metrics, […]
HPCwire constrasts Cray's announcement with "the other" personal supercomputer
September 18, 2008 by
Interesting post from Michael Feldman at HPCwire, who’s blog has really become a great source for candid, informed insight about what’s going on in HPC. When I wrote about the new Cray CX1 and the brief and unfortunate history of personal supercomputing platforms in yesterday’s blog, I intentionally didn’t mention the SC072 deskside machine from […]
SC08 panels announced
September 18, 2008 by
Again, from HPCwire Will electric utilities of the future give away supercomputers with the purchase of a power contract? Industry experts in high performance computing, communications and storage technologies will explore this question and others in a handful of select panels at SC08 in Austin, Texas, Nov. 15-21, 2008. Panel topics this year include: Applications […]
