This week visualization software provider CEI, maker of EnSight, announced the launch of EnSight CFD This new CFD visualization product has an interface specifically tailored to the needs of CFD engineers, featuring improved readers for the analysis packages CFD engineers use most, including FLUENT and CFX. These enhanced readers automatically add a series of derived […]
Archives for April 2009
Green design can add to costs, but that isn't slowing CIOs down
April 30, 2009 by
From Enterprise IT Planet’s weekly news roundup, a few items of green news that you can drop at your next center staff meeting IT hosting company The Planet unveiled a new facility in North Dallas that features a green design featuring high-efficiency water-cooled chillers. The green features added $2 million to construction costs. One-fifth of […]
Obama sets goal for largest R&D investment in US history
April 30, 2009 by
Peter Harsha covered this a couple days ago at the CRA’s Policy Blog, but I managed to miss it then. The President used a speech before the members of the National Academy of Sciences today to reiterate his commitment to boosting the U.S. investment in science and technology. In his remarks before the opening session […]
Sun reports Q3, posts loss
April 30, 2009 by
A lot went wrong for Sun’s business in the third quarter: Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 were $2.614 billion, as compared with $3.266 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, and compared with $3.220 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Total gross margin as a percent of revenues was […]
Behind Blue Waters
April 30, 2009 by
My pal Bill Kramer (who I just interviewed as part of a project I’m doing that I’ll talk more about in a week or so) has center stage in a video NCSA just released about the Blue Waters project. Something I didn’t realize until I talked with Bill yesterday is the extent to which Blue […]
Cray reports Q1, posts loss
April 29, 2009 by
Supercomputing stalwart Cray Inc. reported results today for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. From the release Cray Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. Revenue for the quarter was $74.5 million compared to $26.1 million in the prior year period. The company reported a net loss for the […]
InsideTrack: Rumors that two bidders survived the SGI process
April 29, 2009 by
Industry sources say that only two bidders made it through the diligence process willing to submit a bid: Rackable, and a group of creditors, and that Rackable has the winning bid at this point. We posted at the beginning of the week about rumors of who was digging around. Evidently they didn’t come out happy […]
Cray Expands Reseller List for CX-1 Deskside
April 29, 2009 by
Cray has announced that it has expanded its global set of resellers of the popular CX-1 deskside unit. We are pleased with the progress we are making with the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer. Expanding our worldwide reseller network puts us in a position to work with our partners to reach the broad number of customers […]
Panasas and Dell Partner on Life Sciences
April 29, 2009 by
Panasas announced today a new partnership with Dell aimed at developing integrated compute and storage solutions for the life-sciences market. The new solution includes Dell M610 blade servers and Panasas ActiveStor storage appliances. Our life sciences customers rely on Dell because we take the complexity out of research technology deployments. They care about faster simulations […]
ISC keynotes focus on lean brain management, next generation HPC, and more
April 29, 2009 by
The 2009 International Supercomputing Conference (held this year June 23-26 in Hamburg, Germany) has announced its slate of four keynote addresses Tuesday, June 23: Andreas “Andy” von Bechtolsheim, the legendary co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder and Chief Development Officer of Arista Networks will discuss “The Evolution of Interconnects for High Performance Computing.” In his […]
