The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative [LONI], today announced that it has gained an additional 4.77 Tflop of computational capacity with its latest supercomputer install. The new machine, name Painter, is housed at the Data Replication Center and Louisiana Tech University. This marks the fifth of six Dell machines that make up the clusters on LONI. […]
Archives for March 2009
CERN and Argonne use science clouds for computing
March 26, 2009 by
Their phrase, not mine…here, I’ll prove it. From the release A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in “science clouds.” …The integration was achieved by leveraging two mechanisms: the Nimbus Context Broker, developed by computer […]
9 operating systems that time forgot
March 26, 2009 by
Matt Lake, waxes nostalgic at Computerworld and remembers 10 operating systems from the halcyon days of yore (that’s right, I said “yore”). You’re not really supposed to love an operating system. It’s like your car’s hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It’s supposed to do its job — and not get […]
IBM shifts 5,000 US jobs overseas today [Updated]
March 26, 2009 by
This is reported in several places, but I’ll link you to John Oates at The Register. According to the story IBM is cutting 5,000 jobs today, mostly in the US and mostly from its services division. Big Blue’s services division has been a steady source of profits for the firm. It seems that IBM will […]
NVIDIA: “we don't need our own x86”
March 26, 2009 by
At the beginning of March I pointed to a story in which Michael Hara, SVP of Investor Relations for NVIDIA, was quoted saying that it would “make sense” for NVIDIA to start developing its own x86 platform. Odd for an investory relations guy to be saying that, but there you go. This week Michael Feldman […]
Linux on Wall Street
March 26, 2009 by
Doug over at ClusterMonkey has a post today on the upcoming Linux on Wall Street event If you are in the North Jersey/New York/Connecticut (and even Pennsylvania) area put an X on April 6th, 2009. That is when the 7th annual Linux on Wall Street event takes place. This year it has the “High Performance” […]
ScalableInformatics intros GPU+Cell box
March 25, 2009 by
Michigan-based HPC storage and compute provider ScalableInformatics announced today that they are now offering IBM’s Cell in their Tesla-based workstations The Pegasus-GPU+Cell is the first-to-market product offering both GPU and Cell technology in a single box. Combining up to 3 accelerator systems with a high performance computing substrate, it features up to 16 processor cores, […]
Site facelift, beware falling pixels
March 25, 2009 by
Thanks to Joe over at scalability.org, we didn’t have any more site issues this morning. Hopefully, things will stabilize now. But just to maximize chances that they don’t, I’ve just completed development on a tweak of the site theme. This is the first major visual change for 18 months or so, and in doing it […]
Red Bull Employs Platform Computing Technology for 2009 Race Season
March 24, 2009 by
The Red Bull Racing Formula One team has recently employed the help of Platform Computing to assist in managing its HPC loads for the 2009 race season. Considering the recent FIA design regulation changes, Red Bull and other teams have been forced to redesign many of the core aerodynamic components of the racecar. As a […]
Novell Ships SLES 11
March 24, 2009 by
Novell, today, announced the official release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform version 11. From the release: As data centers become more heterogeneous, customers are demanding a cost-effective platform that can run their applications reliably and with high performance on any hardware platform and hypervisor as well as in appliances and cloud computing infrastructures. With […]
