SC09 is now officially in the rear-view mirror, having ended around lunch west coast time today. While we are returning insideHPC to the look you’ve all become accustomed to, I want to remind you that all the news, videos, features, and content we gathered around the show is still available in the inside SC09 supplement […]
Archives for November 2009
NextIO announces partnership to get IO virtualization tech into IBM clusters
November 20, 2009 by
NextIO is a company with a cool offering that allows you to pool your network ports, disk drives, GPUs, and other IO devices into a box that can be connected via PCI Express to multiple servers. As the company says, this lets you separate decisions about IO from decisions about compute. A use case? Rather […]
Pics added to community leadership award presentation story
November 20, 2009 by
Just a quick note: I’ve added a couple pics we had shot during the presentation of the inaugural HPC Community Leadership Awards to Bill Gropp and ORNL to my original story. I tried uploading larger versions from the plane, but the connection isn’t reliable enough. Will upload those on the ground.
Awards at SC09
November 20, 2009 by
In case you didn’t notice all of the little foam core signs hanging in booths all over the show floor, HPCwire announced its raft of reader and editor awards again during SC09. They announced winners in ten categories. More in their article here. Congratulations to all the winners. And, of course, we announced that Bill […]
Intel Labs Europe joins exascale effort
November 20, 2009 by
CNET News reported yesterday that Intel Labs Europe is joining several other French institutions researching exascale futures The Exascale Computing Research Center will investigate machines that can perform 1,000 times more calculations than today’s top supercomputers, Intel said, and the chipmaker is spending millions of dollars on the three-year partnership. The effort also includes Commissariat […]
A look at the Green500: IBM, and a couple other vendors
November 20, 2009 by
First off, if you haven’t been by the Green500 website in a while, swing by. They’ve gotten a full facelift, and they look great. Now let’s take a quick look at the latest lists. On the TOP Green500 list, which ranks the Top500 entries in order of power efficiency (MFLOPS/W) not Linpack performance, we see […]
Oregon companies at SC09
November 20, 2009 by
If you were at SC09 this year, you might be interested in knowing that a number of those exhibiting were a lot closer to home than most of us were. Local companies included big companies with Oregon offices, like Intel and Sun, and companies headquartered there like compiler maker The Portland Group, RNA networks, and […]
Intel cloud service tests the scalability of your code
November 20, 2009 by
Dr. Dobb’s reported this week that Intel has announced a new tool to allow developers to understand the scalability of their apps Intel’s Software Tools group has announced a cloud-based “scalability service.” The Intel Parallel Universe Portal is an on-demand cloud-computing analysis tool that tests 32-bit Windows-based parallel applications. The service lets software developers assess […]
Appro updates Xtreme-X line, ACE software
November 20, 2009 by
This week from the show Appro announced updates to the Intel side of their Xtreme-X line of supers as well as ACE, the company’s management software solution. While I was at SC I dropped by the booth and got a brief walk-through of the news and brushed up on the company’s offerings. The Appro Xtreme-X […]
Platform launches Application Center
November 20, 2009 by
This week Platform Computing (makers of LSF and other software products for HPC) announced the launch of a new portal product, and upgraded Platform LSF 7 and HPC Workgroup Manager. First, Application Center Platform Application Center is available as an optional capability for both Platform LSF 7 and Platform HPC Workgroup Manager, making the configuration […]
