Mellanox Technologies, the organization responsible for a reasonable portion of the Infiniband ecosystem, has announced that they opened a new subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Mellanox Technologies UK will allow the company to expand their sales and technical staff further in Europe. Eyal Waldman, chairman, president, and CEO of Mellanox Technologies, said: “Across Europe, organizations […]
Archives for March 2010
CSIRO Plans HPC Procurement
March 24, 2010 by
The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization’s ASC division [CSIRO] has announced that it plans to procure a new high performance computing resource for the Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria. The current machine is an IBm e1350-based cluster. According to the release, the renewal cost has been estimated at $840,000. CSIRO’s ASC spokesman said, “These […]
Poof Goes the Cell Blades
March 23, 2010 by
According to an article posted today at The Register, IBM has officially discontinued any new production of their QS21, two-socket Cell blade servers. The second generation Cell blades, marketed mainly towards HPC and technical computing customers, was announced back in August of 2007. Today, IBM contacted current QS21 customers and indicated that they have until […]
Cray intros Intel-based super
March 23, 2010 by
AMD sends fruit basket, wants to talk. Today pure play HPC company Cray announced the release of its next generation mid-sized supercomputing platform, the CX1000. The announcement grows Cray’s investment in Intel’s chips from the lone deskside CX1 to a computer of more significant stature, edging into a space in Cray’s product line that has […]
We lost the hardware…what if we lost the software too?
March 23, 2010 by
At last week’s Newport HPCC conference I was on a panel that was asked to opine about what disruptive technologies we saw on the horizon. Andy Jones at NAG was in the audience, and has written briefly about the panel. We were asked specifically about GPUs, and discussed all the usual angles. Andy sums up […]
Sandia to break ground on new computational facility
March 23, 2010 by
Sandia National Lab announced this week that they will break ground tomorrow (Wednesday) on a new $5M computation facility A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility – the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) – will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the grounds […]
Summer school on multicore programming
March 23, 2010 by
Sunscreen optional. The UPCRC at Illinois has announced a refreshing way to amp up your back-to-school summer vacation report. Finally, Tommy Rigel and his beach-condo-owning uncle can be jealous of you for once. Pack up the baby and head up to the great state of Illinois this July for a week at the UPCRC Illinois […]
More photos added to the Newport conference album
March 23, 2010 by
I got another batch of photos from the 2010 HPCC conference in Newport last week in email over night, and I’ve uploaded those to the Facebook page (here’s a link to the album.) If you have any photos from the conference that you’d like to share, send them to me. And be sure to stop […]
Blue Waters will not run AIX
March 23, 2010 by
It isn’t too much of a surprise that Blue Waters, NCSA’s 10+ PFLOPS super expected to come online in 2011, will run Linux. According to the November 2009 list, 89% of the Top500 (or 446 systems) use some variant of that ubiquitous OS. But it is perhaps a little more surprising that the system, a […]
QLogic Announces World's First QDR Pass-Through Module
March 23, 2010 by
QLogic, today, announced the official release of the world’s first QDR Infiniband pass-through module. The 12005-PT16 QDR pass-through module is now available for Dell PowerEdge blade servers geared towards high performance computing workloads. The module is designed to fit within the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade server chassis, while only requiring a single slot. Several other […]
