Amongst many product releases and updates from the Sun camp this week at ISC, they’ve also announced the latest version of their popular batch scheduler, Grid Engine. The new version, 6.2u3, features the normal set of bug fixes and introduces several wicked cool features. New features include: .: Amazon EC2 Adapter: The Service Domain Manager […]
Archives for June 2009
SGI Announces X86 Servers with Dual On-Board QDR
June 25, 2009 by
SGI, yesterday, announced the first in the Rackable x86 scale-out series of servers to support both on-board quad data rate [QDR] Infiniband and 10Gb Ethernet connections. Available across the Rackable server product line, the new servers feature dual quad small form factor pluggable [QSFP] ports running at 40Gbps QDR Infiniband or 10Gb Ethernet. Diverse industries, […]
LITE Names New CEO
June 25, 2009 by
The Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise [LITE] officially announced that they have named a new CEO. The LITE Board of Commissioners decided to appoint the interim CEO, Henry Florsheim, as LITE’s first full-time chief exec. Florsheim had held the post on a temporary basis since November. In the job, Florsheim will take over the management of […]
ETH and IBM Working on Next-Gen Water-Cooled Super
June 25, 2009 by
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich [ETH] and IBM are planning on building a next-generation water-cooled supercomputer. The new design, called Aquasar, will directly repurpose excess heat for university buildings. The initial design is thought to save 30 tons of C02 and reduce overall energy consumption by 40 percent. Energy is arguably the number […]
Rocks Cluster Toolkit Turns 5.2, Welcomes Solaris to the Party
June 24, 2009 by
The Rocks Cluster Toolkit development team officially announced the latest release of their widely-used cluster management stack. Version 5.2 of Rocks went live for i386 and X86_64 Linux and x86_64 Solaris. What!? Did I say Solaris!? Indeed, the Rocks Cluster Toolkit now officially supports deploying Solaris as a compute node option for your cluster. For […]
Greg Pfister offers a primer on virtualization for HPC guys
June 24, 2009 by
Greg Pfister has a blog post that I think will get a reaction or two from you guys, since judging by past posts you are always interested in arguing the relative merits of virtualization when it comes to HPC. The entire post is a short but interesting read, and I commend it to your day’s […]
Microsoft Releases Linpack Tuning Tool
June 24, 2009 by
During the intitial Community Test Preview [CTP] of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Microsoft leaked details that they were also working on a new toolpack for the release. Ryan Waite, Product Unit Manager for Windows HPC Server, indicated that an integral part of the new toolset was a tuning utility designed to optimize Windows […]
NSCEE Tests Cray CX1 with Windows
June 24, 2009 by
Cray announced this morning that the National Center for Energy and the Environment [NSCEE] has been testing the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer running Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008. Overall, the CX1 running Windows ran 46% faster in delivering complex analyses. What does that really means? Your guess is as good as mine. The results of […]
GPUs at ISC'09
June 24, 2009 by
Just before ISC late last week I got a note from insideHPC’s pal Audra in Portland (hi Audra!). Audra works with Liaison PR out there, and they handle NVIDIA’s GPU business (they are really great, by the way; if you have a company and you don’t have a great PR firm, you should be so […]
IMSL, now with 100% more BlueGene
June 24, 2009 by
Visual Numerics announced Tuesday at ISC that they’ve added IMSL Fortran support for IBM’s BlueGene Today, Visual Numerics, Inc., part of Rogue Wave Software, and a leading producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software announced that the IMSL Fortran Library is the first third-party set of mathematical and statistical libraries to support IBM’s Blue […]
