In the spirit of end-of-year prognostications, insideHPC’s pal Andy Jones has a feature at HPCwire looking back at the decade 2009-2019 As we turn the decade into the 2020s, we take a nostalgic look back at the last ten years of supercomputing. It’s amazing to think how much has changed in that time. Many of […]
Archives for 2009
The best and worst tech companies to work for, HPC vendors make the lists
December 16, 2009 by
The end of the year is always witness to a legion of lists — the best this, the worst that, and the five things you have to buy next year or face the ridicule of your peers. HPC mostly doesn’t figure in these lists. So I took notice of a few of the companies in […]
Verari sticks to its story; Driggers has left the building
December 16, 2009 by
Yesterday Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register (I met him at SC09 — it was cool to put a face with the reporting) reported on a conversation he had with Dan Gatti, Verari’s SVP of marketing. He seems to have stuck with the same talking points that David Wright used when he talked with insideHPC […]
Builder Chosen for NCAR-Wyoming Center
December 15, 2009 by
The National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR] has announced that it has a chosen a construction management and general contracting firm for their new supercomputing facility outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Centennial, Colorado-based Saunders Construction Inc. will provide pre-construction and, potentially, construction services for the $66 million facility. Construction is expected to begin next year [hopefully […]
Queensland Selects Mitrion Accelerated Computing Platform
December 15, 2009 by
The Queensland University of Technology [QUT] High Performance Computing group has selected the Mitrionics Mitrion Accelerated Computing Platform to explore algorithmic acceleration of several core user workloads. Initial projects will focus on molecular dynamics, UAV on-board processing, genetic computations, elementary mathematical functions, and computational fluid dynamics. In order to utilize the potential of their current […]
Episode 5 of the green HPC podcast series: Turning up the heat
December 15, 2009 by
Typical machine rooms today operate between 20 and 25 degrees C, about 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, an operating range comes from a time when it was the people in the room that needed cooling, not the computers. And even experienced datacenter managers spend a lot of time and energy building clusters out of servers with components they don’t need, in buildings that are way cleaner than they need to be.
In this episode we talk with Argonne’s Pete Beckman and Microsoft’s Christian Belady about the specific ways in which their organizations are working with their datacenter and computer hardware vendors to improve operations efficiency. These guys are using a proactive, measurements-based approach to guide them toward more effective operations without voiding their warranties or impacting operations. And speaking of warranties, we also talk with Steve Cumings of HP to find out whether one of the world’s largest suppliers of servers is really ready — and willing — to work with customers to redefine how datacenters are run.
Swimming pools. Movie stars.
December 14, 2009 by
Our pal Joe Landman over at Scalable Informatics (an advertiser on this site) was interviewed during SC09, and has posted a link to the show TECHiNSIGHT magazine has posted the interview. This is what they say about Joe: “Joe Landman, founder and CEO at Scalable Informatics is a smart guy and not just because he […]
Verari issues (very) brief statement
December 14, 2009 by
Just a few moments ago Verari placed a (very) brief announcement on the home page of their website Verari has initiated a process that will protect our customers investment and benefit our creditors as we restructure the business. The intention is to safeguard customers investment and provide an ongoing support capability. There are several options […]
Sun Video: HPC Benchmarking Update
December 14, 2009 by
Fast on the heels of their HPC Consortium meeting, Sun has posted a video detailing a presentation given by Yan Fisher, Benchmarking Lead in Sun’s Technical Marketing Group. The presentation gives an overview of the various Sun compute platforms, ranging from desktop to blade server and their respective performance results. Most of the results presented […]
insideHPC exclusive with Verari CEO: "The doors are open."
December 14, 2009 by
I just got off the phone with Verari CEO David Wright, who took a few minutes to talk with me this morning about what his company is going through. It was an interesting conversation. Wright describes Verari as being in a “controlled reorganization,” which is consistent with what employees were told at the all hands […]
