Posted by: Clushicluster on Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 07:17AM EDT views: 974
With 3 Pentiums III and a single power supply, you can make a low noise and consumption cluster. This can be done with a single hard disk and packed in a standar PC-tower if the hardware is appropiated.
Posted by: Lew Tischler on Wednesday October 18 2006 @ 09:48AM EDT views: 1206
Symbio Technologies, an innovator in stateless computing, announced today that it is expanding its Linux development arm dedicated to the creation of stateless computing systems.
Posted by: David Kanter on Tuesday October 17 2006 @ 06:19PM EDT views: 1194
RealWorldTech: At the Microprocessor Forum, IBM took the wraps off their next generation processor, the POWER6, which is targeted for general availability in mid-2007. The POWER6 boasts twice the frequency of its predecessors, along with a substantially improved system architecture and some minor additions to the core including the AltiVec instructions and binary coded decimal. IBM is claiming to double performance, which is a bold claim indeed, considering IBM's lead in many server benchmarks.
Posted by: Kai Staats on Tuesday October 17 2006 @ 10:52AM EDT views: 1312
Terra Soft is proud to announce Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for PLAYSTATION 3 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Posted by: Michael Creel on Tuesday October 17 2006 @ 05:53AM EDT views: 2499
Using VMware or QEMU, it is possible to create both virtual and real ParallelKnoppix clusters for HPC computing in minutes, from any distribution of Linux, or from Windows.
Posted by: Dana D Booze on Monday October 16 2006 @ 11:10AM EDT views: 1078
Unified Solution Makes Data and Computing Power Readily Available to Scientists Running Multiple Applications in a Single Environment
Posted by: Kenneth Farmer on Wednesday October 11 2006 @ 12:35PM EDT views: 1550
SiCortex, the first company to engineer a cluster computer from the silicon up, announced today that it has closed a $21 million round of funding, led by Chevron Technology Ventures through its venture capital arm, CTTV Investments LLC. SiCortex will unveil its ultra low power approach to high performance computing (HPC) at the Supercomputing ‘06 show on November 13. The funding will go toward expansion of sales and marketing efforts and continued product development.
Posted by: Michelle on Tuesday October 10 2006 @ 02:37PM EDT views: 1314
Interactive Supercomputing announced findings from a new study - Development of Custom Parallel Computing Applications study conducted by the Simon Management Group. The study was sponsored by ISC and surveyed more than 500 users of parallel high-performance computers from a range of industries. The study indicates that parallel code writing, programming efficiency, translation, debugging and limits of HPC software are the most frequently cited bottlenecks across all industries.
Posted by: Kai Staats on Tuesday October 10 2006 @ 09:16AM EDT views: 1827
Terra Soft is contracted by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) to develop and manage a supercomputing cluster built upon the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux OS.
Posted by: Kenneth Farmer on Tuesday October 10 2006 @ 07:43AM EDT views: 1231
Next Generation: Integrated software solutions company Terra Soft will be constructing a supercomputing cluster based on the PS3's Cell processor and the Linux OS.
Posted by: Kenneth Farmer on Tuesday October 10 2006 @ 07:15AM EDT views: 1193
TechNewsWorld: Where Linux stands to gain the most is in clustered, high performance computing and grid environments where Unix has been present and Microsoft has not, says Gartner Research Vice President George Weiss.
Posted by: Kenneth Farmer on Friday October 06 2006 @ 08:07AM EDT views: 1299
SiCortex, the first company to engineer a cluster computer from the silicon up, announced today that it has closed a $21 million round of funding, led by Chevron Technology Ventures through its venture capital arm, CTTV Investments LLC. SiCortex will unveil its ultra low power approach to high performance computing (HPC) at the Supercomputing ‘06 show on November 13. The funding will go toward expansion of sales and marketing efforts and continued product development.
Posted by: Kenneth Farmer on Thursday October 05 2006 @ 09:54AM EDT views: 1873
The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center will host and manage one of the world’s most powerful computers with a $59 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest single NSF grant in the university’s history.
Posted by: Kenneth Farmer on Wednesday October 04 2006 @ 11:09PM EDT views: 1251
CRN: QLogic is acquiring SilverStorm Technologies to become a full-line InfiniBand technology supplier as the market for high-performance computing starts to mature.
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