Andrew Jones has once again published his monthly insight into all things HPC on ZDNet UK. This month, he touches on a widely known, but seldom discussed topic in high performance computing. Supercomputers lie! Given the progression of technology is HPC, we can easily get caught up in the “speeds and feeds” speak. Our new […]
Archives for March 2009
Twittering at HPCC
March 24, 2009 by
While I can maintain the pace, I’m going to do live tweets from the HPCC sessions today. Follow the stream at twitter.com/insidehpc.
Server woes
March 24, 2009 by
We’re having troubles after the move to the new server. A couple times yesterday the website stopped responding, and since I was on airplanes the site typically went several hours down before I could fix it. I’ve got some insideHPC.com friends helping me tweak the configuration to prevent this from happening, and I’ll be able […]
Mellanox gives to make the world a better place
March 23, 2009 by
Not directly HPC-related, but we support the charitable efforts of those in our community. Found at HPCwire today, news that Mellanox is giving $160,000 to fourteen charities and education programs: The charities include Arazim Elementary School, Baldwin Elementary School, Foothill High School, Harvest Park Middle School, Highlands Elementary School, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Oakland’s Children’s […]
Secretary Chu makes ready for $1.2B spending spree in DOE
March 23, 2009 by
Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has announced plans to spend $1.2B of the $1.6B aimed at the DOE Office of Science by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Nothing specifically about supercomputing, but I did spot a networking item and a facilities item that could impact HPC facilities in the DOE (though this isn’t clear […]
Ideas for improving computer science education
March 23, 2009 by
A post last week at the new (I think) ACM blog highlights how some of the ideas from a 2007 PCAST report on NITRD are being used by policy makers today to improve computer science education in the US We outline four recommendations (and specific legislative language for the wonks out there): Promote computing education, […]
Nagoya University Goes with Fujitsu
March 23, 2009 by
Fujitsu Ltd. has announced that they have won a bid to provide the Information Technology Center at Nagoya University with a new supercomputer system. The new system will contain a hybrid mix between three different architectures. Included in the system will be machines based on the SPARC Enterprise M9000 UNIX platform, the HX600 technical computing […]
More on IBM+Sun from Landman
March 23, 2009 by
Joe Landman, who always brings a deep perspective to the business analysis of HPC goings on, commented yesterday on the latest news in the Sun/IBM possible merger. You should read the whole thing, but I found that this bit resonated with me Do remember, IBM is not an HPC company, they are a business machines […]
ANSYS Expands HPC Capacity for Enhanced R&D
March 23, 2009 by
ANSYS announced today that they have expanded their in-house HPC systems in order to optimize the product development process. HP has provided two HPC systems, totaling 76 nodes or 576 cores. One system, with 28 HP DL 165/160 server nodes will be located in the US. The other, located in Germany, will contain 48 HP […]
Can't make the OpenFabrics Alliance workshop this week? Follow by WebEx
March 22, 2009 by
This just in from Cisco reader Jeff Squyres (hi Jeff!), news that the OpenFabrics Alliance will host the fifth-annual International Sonoma Workshop next week from March 22-25. See here for more info (PDF), or here to register. Best news of all? If you can’t make it, you can follow it all on WebEx; Jeff posted […]
