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- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Build a $2,500 supercomputerYou do need a day off!Monday is Labor Day! lol!Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system.Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system. Available now for $600 in refurb units at buy.com. Don't forget the advent of quad cpu's...
- Tags: RAID, Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, Blade servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deep Blue, Cray Inc., supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- Performance, Reliability, and Operational Issues for High Performance NAS Storage on Cray Platforms
- This paper summarizes performance and failure analyses results for the BlueArc Titan NFS server in the Cray CASA test bed in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsi. The goals of this project are: to observe and describe the file transfer performance and fault recovery behavior of the BlueArc under light and heavy loads...
- Tags: BlueArc, Performance, Cray Inc., High-performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-05-02
- Who's afraid of parallelism?
- Who's afraid of parallelism?Good theoretical modelIf by "theory" you mean "modern mainstream programming languages" then I agree that there is no "theoretical" model for parallel computing. Except for SQL, which can be automatically parallelized.However, anything designed around a nondeterministic finite automata would be inherently parallel for most problems, and...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Programming languages, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Cray Inc., parallelism, SDK, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Optimizing Application Performance on Cray Systems With PGI Compilers and Tools
- PGI Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools are available on most Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 systems. Optimizing performance of the AMD Opteron processors in these systems often depends on maximizing SSE vectorization, ensuring alignment of vectors, and minimizing the number of cycles the processors are stalled waiting on...
- Tags: Performance, Cray Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Tool, Productivity, Performance Management, C/C++, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-05-08
- Cray's future: Out of many, one
- Cray's future: Out of many, oneA penny for your thoughtsThe notion of from the many one is the motto of the US. The US penny has this motto writhen in Latin and it is a powerful notion. Crey needs to look at the Xeon and Itanium processor line from Intel,...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Crey, chip, Intel Itanium, virtual machine, virtualization, Cray Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- Sarbanes-Oxley delays Cray's annual report
- Sarbanes-Oxley delays Cray's annual reportSOX will do absolutely nothingto prevent the fraud which spawned the laws enactment. When upper management is involved in fraud, no law in the world will prevent it. The changes which the law brought about would only help prevent things like embezzlement by those...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Cray Inc., SOx
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
- Cray begins selling new mini-supercomputers
- Cray begins selling new mini-supercomputersI want one! NTNT = No TextLinux again!?! hee hee hee snicker:)Butt seriously....just how much speed and performance do we need anyway? I mean here I am sitting in front of my 1.8 ghz G5 iMac loaded with a gig of memory and I'm...
- Tags: Processors, Cray Inc., Apple Inc., Apple Xserve
- Discussion threads 2004-10-04
- Cray promotes two execs
- Cray promotes two execsCray still exists?I wonder who buys them? I guess they still have the support contracts for the existing Crays in the world - but that revenue stream should be drying up. I really liked it when SGI bought them, and then sold them to themselves (in a...
- Tags: Linux, Cray Inc., Crays
- Discussion threads 2004-09-28
- Cray forecasts Red Storm for masses
- Cray forecasts Red Storm for massesNo Windows hereIt's funny, as much as I may personally prefer Windows for my PC use, this is one space where Windows will never be able to compete, simply because of the number of copies of the OS required for this purpose.It's such an exciting...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Unix, Red Storm, Cray Inc.
- Discussion threads 2003-10-27
- Cray Manages and Shares Information in Real Time With Salesforce
- Cray's product line expansion led to significant increase in sales volume. The company implemented PeopleSoft ERP system for back-end infrastructure to manage volume increase. The company needed customizable front-end CRM that could be implemented quickly and with high adoption. Salesforce.com met requirements for solid functionality, top-rated usability, full customization, &...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cray Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales
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- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable againI don't care about it. I stick with VistaI don't care about it. I stick with VistaRE: Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable againThat will be nothing new, just think - another operating system delivered in beta status, with millions of people...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Well Let, Microsoft Windows 7, deliverable, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Market Montage Solution Supports 200,000 Updates Per Second With SQL Server 2005
- When Citi's Lava Technology team needed to create a compliance solution for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation NMS (requiring dealers to use best-available pricing when executing securities orders), it thought it would need a Cray supercomputer or other specialized solution. This is because terabytes of data are required...
- Tags: Solution, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Roi/Tco, Investment, Financial Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up
- He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a qualified thumbs upHeh.Only a Linux guy would like such toy. WHS is a geeky toy...it may be useful for some people, but I still don't see why Joe User would bouy it. This product is going to sell as well...
- Tags: Operating systems, CSS, Media Center PCs, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, FUD, Linux, Linux Guy, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Iomega WHS, codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-24
- Why don't kids use email?
- Why don't kids use email?An Interesting PerspectiveI was working at AT&T Wireless when they started really pushing text-messaging for our customers, and at the time I didn't get it: I never thought it would catch on. Typing a text-message into your cellphone instead of just placing a call is like...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, e-mail, e-mail application, cell phone, computer, text messaging
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Higher-ed must not accept "good enough"
- Higher-ed must not accept "good enough"All CostsYes, usability does trump superiority with a few exceptions. But don't confuse usability with ubiquity. Your article made a lot of sense, except where you try to substitute the near total domination of Microsoft in the IT ecosystem with usability. It...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Higher-ed, Adobe PhotoShop, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- From Shrek to jet engines, supercomputers prove their mettle
- Each year the US Department of Energy entertains proposals for INCITE, a program aimed at advancing the state of the art in US industry. The winners get free computer time on DOE supercomputers. Two of the winners this year, Dreamworks Animation and Pratt & Whitney, gave presentations at SC07 about...
- Tags: Supercomputer, DreamWorks SKG, Engine, Multi-core, Computer, Productivity, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
- Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you're doing real science. On a Playstation! Try playing Ratchet &...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Cell, Khanna, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Is Grandma's Linux called Mac OS X?
- Is Grandma's Linux called Mac OS X?if mac os x is for computer-illiteratesthen why can i crack open a shell; code, compile and debug in any number of languages; script the os; create apps with direct access to system-wide frameworks that provide low-level access to graphics, audio, animation, and data;...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- Gaming technology helps finding oil
- With the help of an IBM supercomputer, University of Houston UH seismic researchers are using video game technology to help them more effectively target oil reserves. IBM has installed a Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) system 'that represents a new generation of powerful supercomputers with substantial parallelism built in at the...
- Tags: Game, Processor, Cell, IBM Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
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- Cray Inc.
- Cray designs, develops, markets and services high performance computer systems, commonly known as supercomputers. Co.'s supercomputers provide capability and capacity beyond typical server-based computer systems...
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