Spectra Logic has announced that will now provide an online training resource for channel partners called Spectra University. It allows channel partners to obtain sales and technical certification as well as normal training from anywhere in the world. SpectraEDGE channel partners even have access to the online resource at no charge. Programs include: – SpectraEDGE […]
Archives for May 2009
Cray completes debt buy back, signals extraordinary financial health
May 28, 2009 by
Supercomputing stalwart Cray Inc. filed documents with the SEC today that reveal it has (nearly) completely bought back all of its convertible note debt — Cray has been taking advantage of its creditors desire for cash to buy back its debt at a discount since October of last year. In each of the three previous […]
Penguin Computing OEM's Scyld to Applied Biosystems
May 28, 2009 by
Penguin Computing announced yesterday that it has successfully formed an OEM agreement for its Scyld ClusterWare with Applied Biosystems. Applied Bio will bundle the cluster management tool with their SOLiD System. After evaluating multiple cluster management products, we chose the Scyld ClusterWare for the processing of large amounts of image data. The Scyld ClusterWare contains […]
Stanford's Bill Dally heads to NVIDIA
May 28, 2009 by
VentureBeat has published an interview with Bill Dally, who until recently was head of the CS department at Stanford, on his move to NVIDIA and his new role as chief scientist. Now he has to be the chief visionary for the products that Nvidia will make in the future. His expertise is in parallel computing, […]
Added a new category: deadpool
May 28, 2009 by
I’ve added a new category that I hope to not have to use very often: deadpool. This is for companies in the HPC ecosystem that, like Alma Cogan, are no more. I went back and added LNXI, SGI (the original one, not the new Rackable/SGI), Quadrics, and now SiCortex. If you think of others, drop […]
Cloud Computing: The NASA Way
May 27, 2009 by
According to a recent InformationWeek article, NASA is ramping up efforts to deploy and support a computing cloud. The new initiative is rumored to be utilized for space missions and allow outside users greater participation in the space program. The first portion of the cloud is already up and running. “Nebula”, as its called, hasn’t […]
Sun visualization offering gone?
May 27, 2009 by
Randall at VizWorld had a post last week at his site about the disappearance of (most) of the data on the Sun vis page. Today, however, a fellow twitterer noticed that the Sun Visualization Webpage is almost entirely gone. I’m completely unable to find it under their products lists, and going directly to the old […]
Terascala, Meet LSI. Team, Meet HPC.
May 27, 2009 by
Last week, we covered the press releases from Terascala detailing new product lines and partnerships featuring the disk sub-systems of LSI. File system appliance startup meets seasoned pro in enterprise storage. However, most fail to realize the potential significance of such a partnership. Positioned correctly, the joint efforts of Terascala and LSI could realistically change the game of HPC storage. We had the pleasure of speaking with Rick Friedman, Terascala’s VP of Marketing and Product Management, and Steve Hochberg, LSI’s Director of HPC, to find out just how.
Inside Track: SiCortex rumored to be closing its doors [CONFIRMED]
May 27, 2009 by
Word on the street is that SiCortex will announce soon, perhaps today, that they are going out of business. No word on what the problem is; I know that they were working on another round of financing, and this is a tough environment to be looking for addititional financing. I’ll try to contact the company […]
Japan makes plans to move government computing to a cloud, wave powered servers
May 27, 2009 by
A few items of HPC interest from Enterprise IT Planet’s green news roundup The Japanese government announces plans to create a massive cloud server that could eventually host all Japanese government software. The servers are to be located in cold regions, will use wind and solar power, and placed underground where temperatures are more stable. […]
