According to a recent article in Wired magazine [online edition], an upcoming operating system upgrade for your PS3 game console will deny users access to installing “other” operating systems. That means the slew of universities and research organizations running their astrophysics, sequencing and other wheels-off applications on aggregate PS3 clusters will no longer have access […]
Archives for March 2010
AMD muscling in on Intel's turf in SGI's HPC lines
March 29, 2010 by
At least one interesting fact got drowned out today (for me anyway) in the raft of announcements following the launch of AMD’s 6100 series Opteron. A quick scan of SGI’s announcement shows they are slotting it in their existing AMD-based enterprise and cloud portfolio, which is Rackable’s heritage business. But in conversations with the company […]
NVIDIA's consumer Fermi processors out
March 29, 2010 by
Today NVIDIA formally announced the launch of its consumer (read: PC gamer) version of the new Fermi silicon in the person of the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards. This is not the HPC platform that NVIDIA is launching later this year (which we reviewed here), so I don’t want to spend a lot of […]
HPC Advisory Council announces European workshop
March 29, 2010 by
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced [PDF] its European workshop, to be held in conjunction with ISC in Germany this June The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, today announced that the HPC Advisory Council, in conjunction with ISC’10, will host the HPC Advisory Council European Workshop 2010 […]
Allinea makes DDT available for CUDA
March 29, 2010 by
French UK-based software tools maker Allinea announced today that they’ve completed a pre-release version of their flagship debugging tool, DDT, available for CUDA programmers Over the last year, Allinea has been collaborating with the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) to develop CUDA-specific feature within its market-leading DDT product. The preliminary results of this close collaboration […]
Green IT certification
March 29, 2010 by
If you’re a certification-oriented kind of gal, you might be interested in a new exam in green IT practices from the Computer Technology Industry Association that showed up in a post at the Green Tech blog CompTIA, or the Computer Technology Industry Association, is now offering a Green IT exam to certify IT professionals in […]
Magny Cours roundup [UPDATED]
March 29, 2010 by
As we did with Westmere, we’ll update this post with pointers to the scads of companies announcing support for the new Opteron 6100, AMD’s new 8- and 12-core processor Appro upgrades its Hyper Clusters and Xtreme-X Supercomputer products with the new processor SGI slots them into its Rackable-line products Cray talks up its long partnership […]
AMD launches Magny Cours, hopes 4 socket pricing attracts cluster builders
March 29, 2010 by
After a long and reasonably well-orchestrated marketing run up, plus a few partner slips, AMD has finally brought its 8- and 12-core “Magny-Cours” processor to market. The pitch: they have more cores, and by adopting a single platform underneath both the four socket and two socket variants of the platform, they’ve eliminated the 4-socket penalty. I talked to AMD’s John Fruehe last week to get the skinny on AMD’s new fat sockets.
What to read at insideHPC this week
March 26, 2010 by
Wondering what to read at insideHPC? Some of the most popular posts this week are: Poof goes the Cell blades We lost the hardware…what if we lost the software too? Cray intros Intel-based super Rocky Mountain super center open house Summer school on multicore programming
Planning a splash at ISC'10?
March 26, 2010 by
Launching a new product at ISC’10? Hosting a really cool workshop or meeting? Presenting important results of broad interest to the community? We want to know about it. You guys told us you wanted to hear more about ISC, the International Supercomputing Conference that happens every summer in Germany, and we’ve listened. This year we […]
