DarkStrand has announced a partnership with the New Mexico Computing Applications Center [NMCAC]. “Encanto”, as its called, will now be jacked directly into the DarkStrand fiber optic network. A such, corporations now have the ability to barter for access and time on NMCAC’s machine. The state of New Mexico and NMCAC are on the forefront […]
Archives for November 2008
SuperMicro Chosen for LLNL Hyperion
November 20, 2008 by
SuperMicro has announced that LLNL has chosen their 1U, twin serverboard design for the Hyperion Project. The goal of the project is to provide a testbed for new cluster development and scaling research. Hyperion represents a new way of doing business. Collectively we are building a system none of us could have built individually,” said […]
Chinese super at number 10, runs Windows
November 20, 2008 by
In case you missed this on Tuesday from Microsoft Today at the Supercomputing 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. debuted in the top 10 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers with Shanghai Supercomputer Center and Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd., which ranked at No. 10 with 180.6 teraflops, the parallel computing speed, and 77.5 percent efficiency. A […]
World's highest resolution tiled display for open science
November 20, 2008 by
My pal Kelly getting some richly deserved recognition as the brains (and attitude) behind TACC’s multi-million pixel vision “TACC just dedicated our newly transformed Visualization Laboratory in October, and now we’ve expanded ‘Stallion’ to almost double the effective resolution of the system to 307 million pixels,” said Kelly Gaither, associate director of data analysis and […]
NVIDIA announces Tesla "personal supercomputer" [UPDATED]
November 19, 2008 by
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer which according to the release, “delivers the equivalent computing power of a cluster, at 1/100th of the price and in a form factor of a standard desktop workstation.” So, this isn’t a product. It’s really a specification for the kinds of components that NVIDIA feels warrant the […]
Fixstars Releases New YellowDog for Cell
November 19, 2008 by
Fixstars, new owners of the Terrasoft Solutions folks, have already announced a version of YellowDog Linux for the Cell processor. This marks the final release of Yellow Dog Linux by Terra Soft and the first by Fixstars,” states Owen Stampflee, Fixstars Solutions’ Director of Engineering, “In the past five years we have made incremental improvements […]
New media from SC
November 19, 2008 by
One of the things I am really enjoying about this is the the recorder in my pocket. The fine folks at HPCwire graciously loaned me their portable digital recorder, which I’ve been using to create short audio postcards from SC — interviews with folks, product tours, and some fun stuff. Here is a link to […]
Wallach's multiple HPC personalities
November 18, 2008 by
I mentioned last week that Convey Computer, the HPC startup founded by Steve Wallach and others, was de-cloaking at SC this week. Well, shields down. The technology looks very interesting. From coverage at HPCwire In a nutshell, the company has developed a “hybrid core” server, the HC-1, which wraps FPGAs into a reconfigurable coprocessor that […]
As if the horse race wasn't enough…
November 18, 2008 by
Now the jockeys are competing to see who’s tallest. Er, shortest. This from HP when the embargo was lifted on the Top500 yesterday For the second consecutive year, the powerful and energy-efficient HP BladeSystem c-Class server has dominated the TOP500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing installations by delivering a flexible architecture that provides customers […]
HPC in the NY Times
November 18, 2008 by
I knew that Ashlee’s move to the NY Times would be a good thing for us. Exhibit B, this article in yesterday’s Times, about the growing uses of HPC that go along with the falling prices. Supercomputers, which are up to a million times faster than the typical desktop PC, are still staples in the […]
