Five Questions for Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs
Author: Ken Farmer,

Recently I sat down with PSSC Labs Vice President, Alex Lesser, to discuss current trends, market environment and future possibilities for HPC.

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Interview with Appro about its new XtremeServers
Author: Ken Farmer

Tell us about XtremeServers. Are these products available? If so, what are the details?

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An Interview with Bill DeSimone, Senior Director, HPC Business Development at Absoft Corporation
Author: Ken Farmer

LinuxHPC.org sat down at SC05 with Bill DeSimone, who recently joined Absoft Corporation, which is headquartered in Rochester Hills, MI. Before Absoft, Bill has held Product Marketing and Management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Compaq. Has been involved with the HPC market for a number of years going back to the Floating Point Systems hay day. Absoft celebrated its 25th year in business in 2005 and has been at the forefront of the Compiler, debugger, and software development tools market during this 25 year period. Absoft is an IBM Premier Business Partner and is also a member of Hewlett-Packard's DSPP program and has direct relationships with its HPC Division. Absoft also has strong relationships with Intel, AMD and Apple.

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Jason Pettit , SGI Altix 3000 Product Manager, Interviewed
Author: Ken Farmer, David Kanter

Recently, Ken Farmer of LinuxHPC.org and David Kanter of Real World Technologies had an opportunity to interview Jason Pettit, of SGI. Jason is the Product Line Manager for the SGI Altix 3000 at SGI, and has been working with various Linux based systems since 1998.

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Who is Responsible?
Author: Douglas Eadline

The phrase, if I only had one throat to choke often comes to mind when thinking about support for clusters. On the one hand, the history and the nature of clusters promotes a kind-of do your own thing methodology. On the other hand, how is the market ever going to grow beyond the pioneers if we do not have shrink-wrapped turn-key systems with a single point of support?

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The Perfect Match
Author: Douglas Eadline

In case you did not know, Biologists have spent a great deal of time putting together a text file that is three billion characters long (The Human Genome). And, next on the list is to figure out what it all means. Not an easy problem. Insights often come from searching the genome with the hope it will yield some biological sentence or paragraphs that helps us understand the mystery of life. This searching it turns out has an insatiable appetite for compute cycles.

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Don’t Say a Word, But Linux Looms Larger at HP!
Author: Terry Shannon

While the trade press fawns over IBM, Sun, or the anointed Linux King for a Day, the New HP is quietly honing and ramping up its own Linux strategy.

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