LSI today announced a new series of configurable storage products. The CTS2600 family is aimed at offering white-box channel partners the ability to quickly design, customize and utilize a wide range of storage configurations. Storage components can become quite costly to configure and stock. Outside of the controller costs, the myriad of disk and host […]
Archives for June 2010
Tilera and Quanta Announce Cloud Server Platform
June 22, 2010 by
Tilera and Quanta today announced a partnership to develop and deliver high density and energy efficient server platforms destined for cloud computing workloads. Codenamed S2Q, the server platform will contain eight TilePro64 processors from Tilera. That’s 64 cores per processor, 8 processors. Yes, 512 cores in a 2U form factor. This announcement is the validation […]
HPC plays a role in developing understanding of how we hear
June 22, 2010 by
According to news out of TACC recently, Harvard Medical School researchers recently published results from computational studies they’ve been doing of a protein that is crucial to the hearing process Cadherin-23 is also one of the proteins that malfunctions in individuals with hereditary deafness. Scientists believe one in 1,000 individuals in the U.S. are affected […]
HP (finally) announces quad socket Magny Cours servers
June 22, 2010 by
When AMD formally launched its high-end SKU for the Magny Cours platform (the Opteron 6100, designed for 2- and 4-socket mobos) at the end of March, there weren’t many choices for a 4 socket offering from a Tier 1 systems vendor. HP launched the 6100 in 2P configurations, but that was it. A little odd […]
Universities Tout Their Top500 Number
June 22, 2010 by
What’s your Top500 number, eh? Texas A&M and Mississippi State both posted articles last week on their respective new positions on the latest Top500 list. MSU landed at number 331 and Texas A&M landed at number 420. Mississippi State has been on 18 of the past 29 Top500 lists dating back to June 1996,” Trey […]
MVAPICH2 Turns 1.5RC2
June 22, 2010 by
I can remember by 1.5’th RC2 birthday just like it was yesterday. [but that’s another story] Last night, Dhabaleswar Panda sent a note to the mvapich mailing list detailing the latest MVAPICH2 release. 1.5RC2 includes the following features and enhancements: Support for hwloc library (1.0.1) for defining CPU affinity Deprecating older PLPA support for defining […]
DataDirect Networks CEO Alex Bouzari Sounds Off
June 21, 2010 by
Last week, SearchStorage.com posted an interview with the DataDirect Networks CEO Alex Bouzari. Many of you may not immediately know Bouzari as I’ve found him to keep somewhat of a low profile when it comes to corporate CEOs. Either way, he’s helped build DDN into an HPC and streaming media storage powerhouse. Dave Raffo of […]
Early results from DOE cloud experiment: MPI applications are slower
June 21, 2010 by
But not all HPC applications are closely coupled. We’ve written about the DOE’s Magellan clouds-for-science experiment before (here and here). It’s not a new thing, but Federal Computing Week is talking about some early results “For the more traditional MPI applications there were significant slowdowns, over a factor of 10,” said Kathy Yelick, division director […]
Thanks for the Facebook love
June 21, 2010 by
Just a quick “thanks” to the 23 of you who “liked” insideHPC on Facebook — we are up to 313 now, well over my feel good “300.” Thanks!
Clustercorp Updates CUDA and Absoft Rolls
June 19, 2010 by
I caught a glimpse of Tim McIntire’s twitter feed this afternoon about a few update Clustercorp Rolls. It seems that Clustercorp released their Absoft and CUDA 3.0 rolls for Rocks+ 5.3 today. Now that’s dedication, production releases on a Saturday! If you’re interested in more details on these or any other Clustercorp Rocks+ rolls, check […]
