The Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology has opened an exhibit entitled: “Seymour Cray Supercomputers.” The exhibit features the evolution of the early technology spawned from the mind of Seymour himself. Come see the largest museum collection of supercomputers. This collection is representative of years of hard work at Cray Research, Inc.- work that […]
Archives for February 2009
Report from the UPCRC Illinois Summit
February 25, 2009 by
Clay Breshears was at the 12 Feb UPCRC Illinois Summit meeting earlier this month, and writes about it on Intel’s blogs This was a progress report of various research projects that are going on with faculty and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It’s been about a year since the UPCRC program was […]
TotalView's Student Express program [CORRECTED]
February 25, 2009 by
My post about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program yesterday didn’t gather any response from from the giant of Redmond, but it did get TotalView’s attention. They sent me info about their student program In many cases, engineering and computer science courses have relied on the use of print statements, GDB and a variety of other open source […]
Reg opens for PRACE symposium in Amsterdam
February 25, 2009 by
Full of Euro love this morning…just a quick note that registration is now open for the upcoming DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are – for the first time – merging their annual science symposia into one big European HPC […]
AMD updates on Instanbul
February 25, 2009 by
Got an email from AMD late last night letting me know that AMD would be providing an update on Istanbul today, this follows news earlier this week that AMD is getting revved up to start shipping, possibly earlier than expected. AMD had this to say, and pointed us toward some resources for more info Tomorrow […]
EuroPVM/MPI 2009
February 25, 2009 by
For my pals across the Atlantic, and those on this side with passports and itchy travel accounts, EuroPVM/MPI 2009 just announced its call for papers. In case you aren’t familiar PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and MPI (Message Passing Interface) have become the standard interfaces for high-performance parallel programming in the message-passing paradigm. EuroPVM/MPI is the […]
Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning options
February 25, 2009 by
Now, this is the kind of news that you only get from insideHPC. I was trolling the SEC filings for our HPC companies, as I am wont to do, when I came upon Cray’s most recent filing, form SC TO-I. Ah, good old SC TO-I. So what is it? In this filing Cray is outlining […]
SDSC Completes Major Storage Upgrade
February 25, 2009 by
The San Diego Supercomputing Center has announced that they have completed a major upgrade to their archival storage system. The tape-based archival now operates with a capacity of 36 petabytes. The upgrade brought in thirty-two IBM EU6 tape drives which can store 1 terabyte of data uncompressed. The upgrade increased archive capacity by 43%. In […]
Sun matching grant program for .edu's
February 24, 2009 by
This from Marc Hamilton’s blog Just in time to help school’s balance their budgets, Sun’s 2009 Matching Grant Program for Education is here. So no matter if you are trying to build a world class supercomputer to simulate unpredictable tornadoes like was done recently on Ranger, TACC’s Sun Constellation System supercomputer, or just need to […]
LNXI Veteran Forms HPC Integrator
February 24, 2009 by
Linux Networx veteran Nate Fuhriman has formed a new cluster computing professional services firm aimed at providing installation, monitoring and tuning services for small and medium cluster sized systems. Essentially, HPCIntegrators as its called, will not only install and tune your system, but they’ll perform all the remote management as well. In this ever-changing world […]
