Posted by: Ken Farmer on Wednesday November 01 2006 @ 04:11AM EST views: 1140
ZDNet: IBM plans to begin shipping two new hardware options next month to augment the performance of its Cluster 1350 systems.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Wednesday November 01 2006 @ 12:05AM EST views: 1179
Scalability.org: We do everything we can to stop failing subsystems from ever entering our customers hands. We beat on our systems, usually with loads far in excess of what our customers will do. No, not using memtest. We run real codes. And we catch lots of problems.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 31 2006 @ 04:50PM EST views: 1400
An updated version of the TIPC demo package is now available for users of Linux TIPC 1.5 and 1.6. The package has now been generalized to allow it to build easily for both versions of TIPC, not just TIPC 1.5.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 31 2006 @ 11:49AM EST views: 1246
At this year's SC06, the international conference on high-performance computing, networking and storage, Panasas, Inc. will showcase the latest Panasas ActiveScale(TM) Storage Cluster solutions and demonstrate the company's continued advances in parallel file system technology and predictive self-management capabilities.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Monday October 30 2006 @ 03:45PM EST views: 1773
Liquid Computing Corp., a developer of a new class of scalable computing system, today announced the general availability of the world's first Interconnect Driven Server, LiquidIQ. LiquidIQ converges computing, networking and broadband to deliver unprecedented performance scalability and system control that is not available from today's server and network equipment providers.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Monday October 30 2006 @ 11:50AM EST views: 2117
Release 3.5 of PolyServe File Serving Utility for Linux Boosts Flexibility, Capabilities for Clustered Storage
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Monday October 30 2006 @ 11:29AM EST views: 1431
What do Intel, Fujitsu and the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) have in common?
Posted by: Erik Weaver on Wednesday October 25 2006 @ 11:20PM EDT views: 2047
Akiragrid delivers 3D modeling software and support for Prototyping, industrial design and architecture, with plug-in tools from Maxwell Render and Computing Power from Digital Ribbon.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Wednesday October 25 2006 @ 04:11PM EDT views: 1949
This is an interview of Frank Chism. He's been around the HPC commuity for some time. He goes through his history to his current position with Microsoft and why he decided to work for them. It's an interesting listen, you get a lot of the early history of HPC and it's evolution.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Wednesday October 25 2006 @ 01:21PM EDT views: 1236
InternetNews.com: Dell Computer expanded its high-performance computing offerings with the unveiling of a pair of dual core AMD Opteron-based PowerEdge servers here at the Oracle Open World conference.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 11:54AM EDT views: 1843
If you have a couple of old Linux boxes sitting around, then you've got the makings of a supercomputer. Dust them off, install Secure Shell (SSH) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and start your complex algorithms.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 11:52AM EDT views: 1233
HPCwire: This week, Silicon Valley startup PANTA Systems unveiled its new server platform called PANTAmatrix. It is an x86-based platform that represents one of the new breed of servers that focuses on I/O performance and SMP configurability. It allows users to dynamically allocate I/O and computational resources across the cluster. A single PANTAmatrix system can support up to 9,000 processors as well as petabytes of storage.
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 11:49AM EDT views: 2000
ASU researchers are partners in an unprecedented supercomputing project that has been awarded a five-year, $59 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 11:47AM EDT views: 1136
SGI Altix and InfiniteStorage Systems Will Speed Weather Modeling, Grid Computing 'Nano-Hubs' and Quantum Chemistry Calculations; SGI RASC Technology will Accelerate Genomics Codes and Seek Production Economies
Posted by: Ken Farmer on Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 11:19AM EDT views: 977
Jonathan Schwartz Blog: As I've been saying for a while, our customers - more specifically, a segment* of our customers - face a diversity of tough challenges. What does the CIO in midtown Manhattan do when she runs out of roof space or power? How does an aid agency deliver basic connectivity to 5,000 relief workers in a tsunami stricken metropolis? What does an oil company do when they want to move high performance analytics onto an offshore platform or supertanker? Or a large web services company do when they want to cookie cutter their infrastructure next to a hyrdroelectric plant for cheap power - within weeks, not years?
IDC: Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Blade Solution
Analysis of the Xtreme-X architecture and management system while assessing challenges and opportunities in the technical computing market for blade servers. Video - The Road to PetaFlop Computing
Explore the Scalable Unit concept where multiple clusters of various sizes can be rapidly built and deployed into production. This new architectural approach yields many subtle benefits to dramatically lower total cost of ownership.
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