Seems simple enough, right? That’s an integral part of Plura Processing’s business model. The new startup has secured $2 million in VC from Creeris Ventures of Houston to sell distributed network computing power. There is an immense amount of excess computing power wasting away on everyone’s home computers. We thought a technology that could tap […]
Archives for October 2008
Barron's financial analysis on SGI: "circumstances dire"
October 28, 2008 by
It’s interesting to me when broader communities peek into our little corner of the world. Today’s morsel is a story from Barron’s on SGI. It’s titled “Don’t Be Tempted by SGI”, so you probably know where the article is headed (tip to HPCwire for the pointer) The stock (ticker: SGIC) is down 59% this year, […]
Research highlight of the week
October 28, 2008 by
Peter Harsha at the excellent CRA Policy Blog has announced a new feature at their web site Today, as part of CRA’s mission to improve public and policymaker understanding of the importance of computing and computing research, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a new feature on the CRA and CCC web pages: the Computing […]
Microsoft announces cloud offering, Dell will partner
October 28, 2008 by
Just a quickie since there aren’t enough details for this to be really interesting or clearly relevant yet. Yesterday at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles Microsoft unveiled its cloud computing solution, called “Windows Azure.” This puts it in the space with Amazon, Google (AppEngine), Rackspace, and others. From coverage of the event at BBC […]
JAIST Selects Cray XT5 Compute Platform
October 28, 2008 by
The Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [JAIST] has announced their selection of the Cray XT5 platform as their latest compute platform. The new compute will feature Cray’s ECOphlex liquid-cooling technology. Once installed, the new Cray will add 18.8 Tflops of peak performance to JAIST. “The new Cray XT5 supercomputer offers an order of […]
Silicon Graphics Releases VUE Viz Platform
October 28, 2008 by
Don’t you mean, SGI? Errr, no. Silicon Graphics, today, announced the release of the VUE suite of visualization software solutions. Back in April, we covered SGI’s initial announcement that they have returned to their visual roots. However, their latest release seems to be a more like the Silicon Graphics of old. Lots of flash and […]
Princeton Gets New Fiber Courtesy of DoE
October 27, 2008 by
The US Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network [ESnet] just improved the internet connectivity to several institutions housed on the Princeton University Forrestal Campus. Well shucks, that sure was nice of them. The affected list includes the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab [PPPL], the High Energy Physics [HEP] Group and NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab [GFDL]. […]
Shoot the Breeze with a Solaris Author
October 27, 2008 by
For those interested in programming for the Sun Solaris environment, Sun is holding an online chat event with Solaris book author Darryl Gove. The chat session will focus on utilizing chip multi-threaded [CMT] systems. I imagine he’ll have some specific examples taken from his book, Solaris Application Programming. The event will be held on the […]
Interesting performance niche: largest supercomputer in the Big 10
October 27, 2008 by
I guess the secret of being a big fish is to define your pond well. This from Purdue on Sunday The Purdue University Boilermakers celebrated another championship yesterday with the installation of a new high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from Dell that is the largest on campus at any school in the Big 10 Conference outside […]
Intel and AMD HPC developer zones
October 27, 2008 by
I was googling around last night and found an opening to a rabbit hole that led to AMD’s HPC Developer Zone. I speculated not-too-wildly that Intel probably has a symmetric zone as well. They do, its here. Links provided as a community service, but many of you probably already knew about them.
