Intel also announced Q1 results last week, calling it a “record first quarter.” Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion. The company reported operating income of $3.4 billion, net income of $2.4 billion and EPS of 43 cents. Financial performance is up substantially both sequentially (from Q4 2009) and year-over-year (from Q1 2009). […]
Archives for April 2010
AMD reports Q1, posts profit
April 20, 2010 by
Although not strictly HPC companies, the two major chip manufacturers do make the stuff that makes our machines go (and in Intel’s case, some of the software too), so I think it’s worth a quick mention to cover their financials briefly. AMD announced Q1 results last week, and did reasonably well. The quarter ended just […]
NSF reauthorization keeps budget on doubling path, rolls into COMPETES Act
April 20, 2010 by
Last week one of the subcommittees of the House House Committee on Science and Technology held a markup session and agree to include the NSF reauthorization in the America COMPETES Act reauthorization activity currently underway in the House (this is the second of three; the first on March 25th covered the Energy and Environment Subcommittee’s […]
Panasas Announces Petascale Storage System
April 20, 2010 by
Panasas announced a new addition to their high performance network attached storage [NAS] product line. The PAS HC device, as its called, is a multi-petabyte scalable NAS system aimed at organizations requiring very large capacities for technical applications. The new addition is based on the new Nehalem microarchitecture and is designed to play nice with […]
NASA launches earth portal on its most power supercomputer [UPDATED]
April 20, 2010 by
Yesterday NASA launched its earth science portal, the NASA Earth Exchange, on the 640 TFLOPS Pleiades system, the SGI Altix ICE that currently holds the number 6 slot on the Top500. According to coverage at InformationWeek, NEX follows in a long line of friendly front ends to complicated supercomputing workflows and applications (though few have […]
Bright Cluster Manager and CUDA Toolkit 3.0
April 19, 2010 by
Bright Computing today announced that their Bright Cluster Manager will include the latest in digs from NVIDIA, the CUDA Toolkit 3.0. Bright Computing customers can pick up the latest in NVIDIA goodness to support the Fermi chipset directly from the Bright Cluster Manager YUM [yellowdog update manager] repositories. Bright Cluster Manager CUDA Toolkit support includes […]
InfiniBand Trade Association announces RDMA over Converged Ethernet
April 19, 2010 by
Today the IBTA announced remote direct memory access over converged Ethernet (RoCE, pronounced “rocky”) for both 10 and 40 GbE RoCE, built on a foundation of the highly efficient use of computing resources, brings significant benefits to end users. By reducing the number of servers needed, eliminating cabling and improving application performance, RoCE can produce […]
Altera Announces 28-nm Stratix V FPGA Family
April 19, 2010 by
Altera Coporation today announced the latest addition to its Stratix family of FPGAs. The Stratix V series leverages the latest TSMC 28-nm High Performanc manufacturing process. In migrating to the new process, Altera has built in a myriad of new features, including 1.6 Tbps of serial switching capability. The new Stratix V’s also have up […]
What to read at insideHPC this week
April 17, 2010 by
Wondering what to read at insideHPC? Some of the most popular posts this week are: Scripting to scaling: enabling broader access to HPC PBS Pro Clears Common Criteria EAL3+ Certification Add water usage disclosure to list of datacenter management concerns Microsoft and the Linux-Friendly Windows HPC Server Intel to deliver 48-core research chips If you […]
Inside Track: Employees at new Verari head for furlough as company struggles in recovery
April 17, 2010 by
It’s been a while since we wrote about Verari. You’ll recall that Verari Systems went out of business back in December and had to sell assets to pay creditors, laying off all their employees in the process. Then co-founder Dave Driggers managed to put together some financing and buy some of what was left to […]
