Sun issued a press release with its preliminary results for its fourth quarter, ended June 30. The news is dreadful quarter-on-quarter Sun expects revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 in the range of $2.580 to $2.680 billion, as compared with $3.780 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. Sun anticipates GAAP net […]
Archives for July 2009
QLogic, AMD, ANSYS, Dell and Microsoft Deploy First Public Istanbul Cluster
July 15, 2009 by
QLogic announced this morning that they have teamed up with AMD, ANSYS, Dell and Microsoft to deploy the first publicly accessible cluster based on the new AMD 6-core Istanbul processor. The new machine, located at the QLogic NETtrack Developer Center in Minnesota, consists of Dell PowerEdge servers, QLogic QDR Infiniband and Microsoft HPC Server 2008. […]
Gore Introduces Low-Profile Copper Cable for QSFP Assemblies
July 15, 2009 by
Gore announced today the general availability of a few low profile QSFP direct attach copper cable assembly. The new cable design is marketed toward QDR Infiniband and 40GbE aggegratation customers that have heartache surrounding the traditionally plump copper. Gore provided samples of the new cables to major switch vendors for testing over the last 6-8 […]
REvolution Computing Featured at Conferences
July 15, 2009 by
REvolution Computing, proprietors of a commercially supported version of the ‘R’ statistical language, have been featured at three Amercian conferences this summer. They were featured at the Open Source Convention [OSCON], Bioconductor [BioC] and the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings. At OSCON, the top open source technology conference sponsored by O’Reilly, Danese Cooper, REvolution’s Open Source […]
Rumor: SGI breaks off NSF petaflops deal with Pittsburgh
July 14, 2009 by
I think this falls into the category of credible rumor. Last week Vizworld.com reported on a tip that the new SGI had backed out of a deal by the old SGI and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. From their coverage About a year ago, the National Science Foundation worked with PSC to prepare for a 1 […]
Microsoft announces free tools for manipulating scientific data
July 14, 2009 by
Dr. Dobb’s reported yesterday on news coming out of the 10th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit about new, freely available tools that Microsoft hopes will encourage researchers to do more with the large amounts of data now available to them Project Trident was developed by Microsoft Research’s External Research Division specifically to support the scientific […]
IBM dominates the 5th Green500 list
July 14, 2009 by
The 5th Green500 list was announced this week (I think; I’m not sure why it lagged the Top500 so much this time, but maybe I’m just remembering wrong). IBM has taken the opportunity to announce their overall dominance of that last and, actually, they have a fair bit to crow about. The list shows that […]
USPTO Rejects Rambus Claims Against NVIDIA
July 14, 2009 by
NVIDIA announced this morning that the US Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] has initially rejected the latest series of eight claims by Rambus against two patents. The claims were challenged by NVIDIA following 41 other claims by Rambus against seven different patents. All told, all of the claims asserted by Rambus against NVIDIA have been […]
Tech-X Releases New Version of GPULib
July 14, 2009 by
Tech-X, yesterday, announced the latest release of their GPULib scientific library. With this release, v1.2.0, they have included substational refactoring of and enhancements to the MATLAB interface. This release also provides additional GPU computing capability for those MATLAB users leveraging the computing capacity of the GPU. From the release: GPULib provides a library of mathematical […]
Call for student participation in Cluster 2009
July 14, 2009 by
This came in over the emails last week as well from Daniel Katz at the U of Chicago, with good news for you students out there with a hankering to travel The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computer (Cluster 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, 31 August – 4 September, 2009, http://www.cluster2009.org/) has now received and […]
