AMD has announced its latest marketing campaign in the face of a sad economy. “Unlock the Power of Black” offers bundle discounts to channel partners on its top-selling server, desktop and gaming products. What we’re trying to do is change the dynamic and do one of two things — either solve a particular business problem […]
Archives for May 2009
Panasas to Support IBM Power Systems
May 27, 2009 by
Panasas announced today that it has partnered with IBM in order to develop integrated support and optimized configurations for the IBM Power series of systems running Linux. The Power+Panasas solution will be targeted towards users in aerospace, energy, finance, government, life sciences, consumer products and manufacturing. High-performance and data-intensive application environments are growing segments of […]
Quadrics prepares to shut its doors
May 27, 2009 by
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register is reporting that interconnect maker Quadrics is getting ready to shut down operations as early as June. This source says that Roweth has been shopping Quadrics around to Hewlett-Packard, Bull, Cray, and Silicon Graphics since last fall, and all of them apparently were not interested in acquiring the company […]
Intel's Parallel Studio development environment shipping
May 27, 2009 by
Yesterday Intel announced that it has started shipping its Parallel Studio development suite. Parallel Studio is a companion toolset aimed at supporting C and C++ developers; the product integrates into Microsoft’s Visual Studio development platform on Windows machines. Parallel Studio is aimed at multicore developers who intend to stay within the shared memory confines of […]
Survey finds big datacenter managers concerned about green laws
May 27, 2009 by
Enterprise IT Planet points to a survey by datacenter firm Digital Realty Trust of senior execs at US companies in charge of datacenters and sustainable computing initiatives Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed said they were extremely concerned, or very concerned, about government regulation. Eighty-one percent said that carbon credits were now part of their IT […]
Intel previews 8-core Nehalem-EX
May 27, 2009 by
Yesterday Intel previewed its next processor, Nehalem-EX, aimed specifically at the high end. The new chip will be “in production later this year” and will feature 8 cores and 16 threads. These are the chips formerly codenamed “Beckton” if you can keep up with Intel’s nutty naming scheme. Ideal for server consolidation, virtualized applications, data […]
Germany Boosts Fastest EU Super
May 26, 2009 by
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Jülich held a launch event today for their latest upgrade to the IBM BlueGene/P system named Jugene. Federal Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan and North Rhine-Westphalia’s premier Jürgen Rüttgers were on hand to help celebrate the 1PF machine. Acquiring JUGENE demonstrates Germany’s bid for leadership in supercomputing,” Schavan said. […]
NVIDIA to Host Inaugural GPU Tech Conference
May 26, 2009 by
NVIDIA has announced that it will hold a GPU Technology COnference this fall. The inaugural event will “focus on how developers, engineers, and reserchers are using the GPU to solve the world’s most important computing challenges.” The conference will include three simulataneous event tracks: Emerging Companies Summit: A unique event that provides start-ups that are […]
IBM drops flash SSDs onto POWER lineup
May 26, 2009 by
Late last week IBM announced it is adding flash-based SSDs to it POWER line of servers; IBM’s System x and BladeCenter servers and System Storage DS8000 line got their SSD injection some time ago. The company joins many other hardware OEMs taking this step. IBM’s release doesn’t have many details, but Timothy Prickett Morgan at […]
New green datacenter, concern over regulation
May 22, 2009 by
From Enterprise IT Planet’s green news roundup, a few items of interest to the HPC-minded PEER 1 Network Enterprises begins work on a 41,000 sq ft green data center in Toronto. Features include an on-site well, high efficiency centrifugal chillers, and heat exchangers to take advantage of free cooling the cooler months. A new survey […]
