Some people see virtualization as a hindrance to performance with no place in HPC. Other people see it as the future of accessibility in HPC, opening up new modes of parallel computing for a non-traditional audience. Either way, it always gets a lot of attention from insideHPC’s readers. So when Shai Fultheim, the CEO of HPC virtualization company ScaleMP, offered to write a post for providing some background into the major virtualization approaches, we took him up on it.
Archives for July 2009
A virtual cluster on your laptop
July 28, 2009 by
I missed this when it was published earlier this month. Josh Simons has a post on his blog at Sun about a virtual image that will let you turn your laptop into a virtual cluster using Sun’s technologies With one free download, you can now turn your laptop into a virtual three-node HPC cluster that […]
Sandia advances Internet-scale research with one million Linux kernels on its cluster
July 28, 2009 by
One of our readers (hi, Sharan) send me a pointer to this nifty story out of Sandia. Researchers there have run a million Linux kernels as virtual machines on Thunderbird, an 8,960-processor Dell Linux cluster, all in the name of security The achievement will allow cyber security researchers to more effectively observe behavior found in […]
Gazprom subsidiary uses ANSYS for equipment development
July 28, 2009 by
Simulation software maker ANSYS announced today that VNIIGAZ, the Scientific-Research Institute of Natural Gases and Gas Technologies and a subsidiary of Moscow-based gas exploration company Gazprom, is using ANSYS simulation technologies to support its business …VNIIGAZ is using multiphysics simulation software from ANSYS to improve reliability and drive technological innovation in the pipeline equipment used […]
SGI affirms commitment to Itanium
July 27, 2009 by
…and also renews commitment to VHS tape of the month club. Responding to reports in the media lately (HPCwire and eWeek, for example) wondering aloud when SGI would finally axe the Itanium from it’s roadmap, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea said “not gonna do it” on his blog last week …There is, however, a basic point […]
Itanium Solutions Alliance Selects Kiwok as 2009 Innovation Award Winner
July 27, 2009 by
The Itanium Solutions Alliance announced their selection for the 2009 Innovation Award Winner in the Humanitarian Impact category. The winner was Sweden’s Kiwok Nordic AB for its work in developing the BodyKom Series remote ECG monitor. The BodyKom unit allows heart patients to live independently while their heart is monitored through a wireless network powered […]
Green tech's fair weather friends
July 27, 2009 by
v3.co.uk reported earlier this month on the conclusions of a report from Forrester Research that show spending on “environmentally friendly IT products” down for the first time since 2007 Some 11 per cent of the companies surveyed planned to slow down implementation of green IT initiatives due to the recession, and 38 per cent planned […]
NTU's iDataPlex helps students understand climate, financial crisis
July 27, 2009 by
HPCwire pointed us to this article at AsiaOne.com on how students and staff will use the Nanyang Technological University’s new IBM iDataPlex, scheduled to be available for production use this October The new IBM supercomputer will help staff and students, from those researching climate change to others trying to come up with socio-economic models to […]
CCC announces network science and engineering research agenda
July 27, 2009 by
The Computing Community Consortium announced last week that they’ve released their Network Science & Engineering (NetSE) Research Agenda Over the past forty years, computer networks, and especially the Internet, have gone from research curiosity to fundamental infrastructure. However, this is no time to rest on the successes of the past. To meet society’s future requirements […]
This Week in Viz – 7/24/2009
July 24, 2009 by
Randall Hand from VizWorld.com, the web’s best site dedicated to computer graphics and scientific visualization, recap’s the week‘s best stories related to supercomputing in the visualization and graphics industries. This week he talks about SIGGRAPH, ParaView 3.6, and Render Farms.
