Diane Lieberman from over at Tabor (the mothership for insideHPC these days) has an interesting post. She observes that although HPC touches the lives of just about everyone these days and although there are many of us watching for that elusive low-end HPC market to coalesce out of the ether, we aren’t making much progress […]
Archives for October 2008
Voltaire Announces QDR Infiniband Switch
October 27, 2008 by
For the bandwidth junkies among us, Voltaire has just announced their latest line of Infiniband switches. The 4000 series switches will feature quad data rate Infiniband signaling at, you guessed it, 40 Gb/s. The baby bear of the 4000 line is the 4036. It sports 36 ports in a 1U chassis. Improved processing power and […]
Intel multicore education series: the view from Georgia Tech
October 27, 2008 by
The next event in the webinar series hosted by Intel covering multicore education is coming up this week October 30, 2008 9:00 AM – Multicore in the Classroom – the view from Georgia Tech. Multicore breaks a fundamental link in how we prepare our current and future developers – teach them to break a problem […]
TotalView batch and remote access debugging
October 27, 2008 by
This from TotalView Technologies last week TotalView Technologies…introduced the newest version of its award-winning source code analysis and error detection tool, TotalView 8.6. The new TotalView 8.6 release includes batch debugging with TVScript designed to automate test/verify/debug environments, and remote display debugging to enable developers to use TotalView across machines from any location. The TVScript […]
The Economist offers a primer on cloud computing
October 27, 2008 by
And speaking of EC2 and clouds and whatnot, if you find you’ve fallen behind the IT times, Nick Carr tells us that The Economist can help with respect to the cloud The new issue of The Economist features a good primer on cloud computing, written by Ludwig Siegele, which looks at trends in data centers, […]
Amazon EC2 out of beta
October 27, 2008 by
From Werner Vogels’ blog last week Congratulations to the Amazon EC2 team for the hard work to get to the point where the beta tag is removed from the service and it is now in full production. Not only that, but there now is an SLA, and Microsoft Windows and SQL Server are available as […]
Personal Supercomputing Survey Results
October 24, 2008 by
The polls are closed, the results are in and the votes from Florida have been reviewed. We officially had sixty-one people respond to our survey on desktop supercomputing. Sparked by recent product releases from Cray and SiCortex, John West and I were increasingly curious what the HPC market thought of such a computing paradigm? Would […]
Rackspace Buys Into Cloud Computing
October 24, 2008 by
Literally. Rackspace has announced that it will be moving its cloud computing services division one step further by purchasing two new organizations. Slicehost and Jungle Disk were purchased for a combined $11.5million. Slicehost offers Xen-based virtual machine hosting. Jungle Disk provides cloud storage through Amazon’s platform. Rackspace’s chief technology officer told IT PRO that his […]
ScaleMP vSMP Available on Sun Blade 6000
October 23, 2008 by
Several days ago, we posted an article detailing the booth layout for Sun Microsystems and its various parnter organizations at SC08. In it, we speculated on a few topics, one of which was the partnership between Sun and ScaleMP. At the time, it seemed like a long shot, but instead we’re two for two on […]
Intel, IBM partner on Dubai HPC competency center
October 23, 2008 by
Several news outlets in the middle east are reporting about a joint venture between IBM and Intel in Dubai Internet City. From Busines 24-7 in the UAE A high performance computing (HPC) centre has been opened in Dubai Internet City in a collaboration between global IT giants IBM and Intel. This is the second such […]
