MSN Money via the Inquirer: Apple has hired graphics wizard Bob Drebin away from AMD’s graphics group. Drebin was formerly the CTO of AMD’s graphics division. Linkedin has him listed as a “senior director”, but doesn’t specify anything further. Drebin has made his mark at several big graphics companies throughout the past twenty years. He […]
Archives for April 2009
Power down for the planet winner announced
April 28, 2009 by
Back in February we covered a challenge issued by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to encourage universities reduce pollution by powering down campus computers. From that story “The Power Down for the Planet program is designed to educate and engage college students on a large scale about their computer power consumption and how that affects […]
Penguin Computing Making its Move
April 28, 2009 by
eWeek has posted an article on the latest progress made within the camp of Penguin Computing. As of late, the cluster company has made big strides in growing their core business of HPC in the face of a sickened economy. The article specifically includes commentary from Charles Wuischpard, President and CEO of Penguin. Two years […]
PRACE Offers Summertime Porting Workshops
April 28, 2009 by
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is sponsoring two summer workshops to be held at CSC Finland and CSCS Switzerland as part of a series of code-porting workshops the group is presenting in 2009. The first workshop will be held June 11-12 at CSC Finland and offers a broad set of lectures on […]
Rice Buys Appro HyperGreen Cluster
April 28, 2009 by
Appro announecd today that the Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has purchased an Appro HyperGreen Cluster solution. The system consists of two fully integrated clusters, featuring the latest in Intel Nehalem silicon. In total, the machine will be installed with 94 nodes, totaling 752 cores with a Mellanox DDR Infiniband fabric. Appro […]
Butte Sim Center Close to a Deal with USAF
April 28, 2009 by
Earlier this month, the Butte-MT-based National Center for Health Care Informatics signed an agreement with the US Air Force to produce advanced computer-simulated training environments. What better place to run the scenarios but the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center right down the street. The Informatics group would design the virtual worlds and run them from the […]
Intel launches Cluster Connection website
April 28, 2009 by
Last week Intel launched a new website to promote the advantages of its Cluster Ready program. Here is what Intel’s Chip Shots site has to say about the launch Intel launched Cluster Connection, an online community that enables IT professionals and engineers to share knowledge and obtain information about High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. Cluster […]
Cisco CEO: clouds "inevitable," security a "nightmare"
April 28, 2009 by
From an article late last week at CSO Online, news that Cisco CEO John Chambers is optimistic about the future of cloud computing (which is good given his company’s recent UCS announcement), and realistic about the infrastructure challenges in making it all work Speaking during a keynote address at the annual security confab, Chambers said […]
NSF awards support academic research in Google cloud
April 28, 2009 by
Found at HPCwire, news of NSF awards late last week to support academic use of the CluE program [The] National Science Foundation announced it has awarded nearly five million dollars in grants to fourteen universities through its Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program to participate in the IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative. The initiative will provide the […]
Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy award nominations due July 1
April 27, 2009 by
Dan Reed has a post on his blog today about the upcoming due dates for HPC’s Nobel Prizes, the Cray and Fernbach awards, plus a brand new one named in honor of Ken Kennedy. This year, I have the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards, […]
