I just saw a tweet about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology – or just get a head start on your career. Fabulous idea, and really something […]
Archives for February 2009
LUG2009
February 24, 2009 by
Sun, yesterday, announced details for the Seventh Annual Lustre User Group meeting. Also announced was an advanced user seminar, occuring the April 15th before the conference. Attendees will have access to experts and peers who will share their real-world experiences. With updates on the community development project, Birds of a Feather sessions, demos, and tutorials, […]
Sun HPC Consortium 2009
February 24, 2009 by
Sun has announced they will hold another Sun HPC Consortium event this summer in Europe. This year’s event will take place in Hamburg, Germany right before the ISC 2009 conference event. The consortium meeting will be held June 21st and 22nd. Stay tuned to the Sun HPC blog for upcoming more details.
Interactive Supercomputing Lands New VP of Engineering
February 24, 2009 by
Interactive Supercomputing, purveyors of Star-P, has announced that Kevin Shea has joined the company as the new VP of Engineering. Shea will lead product development activities surrounding Star-P. My goal is to deliver technologies that bring the power of parallel processing and clusters to the desktop. That’s what got me so excited to join ISC,” […]
SGI Wins Six of Seven for TI-09
February 24, 2009 by
SGI has just announced that they have been awarded six of seven designated systems as a part of the Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program [HPCMP] Technology Insertion 2009 [TI-09]. The multi-year award constitututes roughly $40 million in compute, storage, software and services. The systems will plop down at the Army Research Lab […]
HPC for the big rigs
February 24, 2009 by
Last week Fortune Magazine published a profile on how Kenworth is using rented cycles in a server farm to put CFD to use getting your kibbles and bit cross country Most people don’t spend much time thinking about mudflaps – those strips of rubber behind a big rig’s wheels that repel grime and maybe show […]
Staying connected to SC, year round
February 23, 2009 by
insideHPC’s buddy Rich Brueckner from Sun’s HPC Watercooler is heading up the use of what the kids are calling “social media” tools for SC09 this year, and he’s doing a great job. I wanted to point out all of the new ways that you can stay engaged with SC throughout the year. Pick your favorite, […]
The Inquirer Interviews Khronos President
February 23, 2009 by
The Inquirer has posted a quick interview with the Khronos Group president, Neil Trevett. Formerly working for the precurser to Creative Labs, Neil also runs the OpenES project for Khronos. We’re focused on creating all of the APIs that silicon exposes to the software community,” said Trevett, simplifying things for us a bit and adding, […]
CTR's 2009 top 5 trends in HPC
February 22, 2009 by
Computer Technology Review published its list of the top 5 trends it expects in HPC throughout 2009. Here is the (abbreviated) list HPC is becoming more mainstream. Green IT initiatives are getting real. Cloud computing/software as a service/infrastructure as a service are becoming concrete. Traditional data centers are losing favor. A new era in storage […]
Feldman revisits the memory wall, takes family photo
February 22, 2009 by
Last week HPCwire’s editor Michael Feldman commented on the memory wall, and what may lie on the horizon for HPC The Nehalem processors, though, should provide some relief — if temporarily. The soon-to-be-released quad-core EP chips for two-socket servers will have integrated DDR3 memory controllers, which Intel claims will bump memory bandwidth by 300-400 percent […]
