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- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputerSo that's who's keeping SGI aliveGranted, I know that the Itanium 2 scales well, but so does the POWER6. In fact, if the POWER6 scales as well as it should, they would require half of the cores that the Itanium 2 would need....
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Itanium, IBM POWER6, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., HPC Space, NASA, supercomputer, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
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- ATI debuts Radeon HD 5870 with 'most powerful processor ever created'
- Mad Mike Magee 35th of 50 TOP Britons in IT & 5870 Diagram:Thomas Stewart Von Drashek Pat Moorhead: MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN of Nvidia, AMD/ATI today launched its RV870 architecture with the highly anticipated Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870 graphics cards.We could spend a whole day writing about...
- Tags: processor, ATI Technologies Inc., card, Radeon HD 5870, Radeon HD, NVidia Corp., Radeon
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- HP acquires cluster file storage software vendor IBRIX
- Â Today, HP announced that they will be acquiring the startup cluster file storage software firm IBRIX in a deal with few disclosed details. Congrats to HP for making another interesting acquisition in the clustered storage space, following their Feb. 2007 acquisition of Polyserve and their October 2008 acquisition of Lefthand....
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBRIX, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Reichman
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- French dictionary for HPC Translate 1.1 (Mobile)
- The French dictionary add-on adds the following functionality to HPC Translate:English to French single word translationFrench to English single word translationThe French dictionary add-on for HPC Translate includes the following files that will be installed on your mobile device:Fre.tdd - French dictionaryEng_fre.tdl - English to French translation tableFre_eng.tdl - French...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Mobile Device, Dictionary Add-on, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-11
- German Dictionary for HPC Translate 1.1 (Mobile)
- The German dictionary add-on adds the following functionality to HPC Translate:English to German single word translationGerman to English single word translationThe German dictionary add-on for HPC Translate includes the following files that will be installed on your mobile device:Ger.tdd - German dictionaryEng_ger.tdl - English to German translation tableGer_eng.tdl - German...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Mobile Device, Dictionary Add-on, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-11
- Platform applies HPC lessons to 'private' cloud creation, operations, efficiency
- Platform applies HPC lessons to 'private' cloud creation, operations, efficiencyPlatformsThe real thing that all cloud providers should be looking at and answering are needs. Rather than putting out marketing speak, we need to answer the call of what organizations are asking for: namely in most situations to save time (streamline/automate...
- Tags: HPC
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- What Sun can do now - and why you should help.
- What Sun can do now - and why you should help.See where Open Source leads Sun to?The last decade marks the global failure to practice open source as a business model. The saddest part was that it happened despite people warned them not to go that route.Don't know what to...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Research & Development, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-18
- IBM gets serious about cloud computing
- We've known for a while that cloud computing is important to IBM. It seems nearly every division has an effort in some aspect of the opportunity. And marketing has done its best to make it all look cohesive by wrapping these efforts under the Blue Cloud banner. But now we...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Ric Telford, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Sales, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Supercomputing Company Chooses Windows HPC Server 2008 Over Linux
- Many of China's largest organizations, from government departments to aviation and space companies, rely on Dawning Information Industry Company for High-Performance Computing HPC. In fact, the company owns more than 30 percent of the country's HPC market. Dawning previously used Linux HPC operating systems on its computers, but it wanted...
- Tags: Supercomputing, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Productivity, Open Source, Software
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Planetarium Increases Rendering Speeds for Faster Creation of Astronomy Shows
- Beijing Planetarium is a leader in public astronomy and one of Beijing's most popular attractions, with a digital space theater, three-dimensional and four-dimensional theaters, and two observatories. Beijing Planetarium produces leading-edge digital planetarium shows using high-performance computing for rendering animation and special effects. It recently upgraded its environment to Windows...
- Tags: Theater, Beijing Planetarium, Leadership, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- HyDrive Disk Blade Concept: The Fusion of Intel SSDs With 3.5" HDD Media
- Verari Systems is leading the blade storage revolution, combining industry leading, patented bladed technology with industry-standard system components to reduce storage acquisition costs along with operating expenses associated with power, cooling and data center floor space. Within Verari Systems, the Verari Systems Storage Group has targeted the needs of the...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Verari Systems Inc., Blade, Media, Intel Corp., Storage Solution, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-10-07
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputerI Wouldn't Use ItWould you if you were a scientific organization that needed precision calculation and system reliability? I'd rather have a beowulf cluster doing my job than this mess.Horse Power NeededYou can now run vista with all its bloatware in full...
- Tags: Operating systems, supercomputer, Cray Inc., WINDOWS BASED, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer.... i believe the link is wrongnice article. i think its a fantastic achievement by IBM. but i believe the link you supplied to the best article you found on roadrunner is incorrect as it merely links back to your own blog posting....And it runs..All...
- Tags: Processors, OpenCL, Cell, Sony PlayStation 3, processor, PS3 chip powers world, chip, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Sun Blackbox gets new name and customers
- Sun Blackbox gets new name and customersActually, the idea is neat: extremely quick deployment of an HPC or datacenter. SUN puts it together and ships it as a container where-ever one is needed.As long as nobody hitches it up to a truck and takes it away, it should work fine...
- Tags: Sun Blackbox, new name, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- A comparison of quad-core server CPUs
- For anyone looking to buy a workstation or server CPU, quad-core CPUs have become mainstream. Therefore it's important to know what you're getting for the money so I've compiled a chart with general purpose computing performance using the SPEC CPU database with the highest scores as of December 28,...
- Tags: Quad-core, Memory Bandwidth, Server, Dual Processor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., Chip, TLB, SPECint, SPECfp, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Intel Dual-Core HPC Cluster Uses Next-Generation Intel Xeon Processors
- Intel has delivered on Moore's Law using dual-core processing to build a 128-node High-Performance Computing HPC cluster that delivers theoretical peak performance of 3.2 teraflops and sustained performance of over 2.1 teraflops. Based on off-the-shelf technologies, including the next-generation dual-core Intel Xeon processor and an InfiniBand interconnect, the cluster represents...
- Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-01-01
- SPEC launches standardized energy efficiency benchmark
- SPEC launches standardized energy efficiency benchmarkGreat Article, George.Validates what has been known for some time now. No need for any more made up metrics like ACP or other nonsense.Why are there no AMD fans posting? Could it be because Intel owns the power/perf crown?Yeah, I thought so.Why did SPEC agree...
- Tags: Programming languages, server community, SPECpower, Java, Green500 List
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2It's all goodI think the real story of Intel Tigerton/Caneland and AMD Barcelona is the real arrival of x86 "Big Iron". Sure, it has existed for years (Sequent and DG, then IBM and Unisys), but now it is affordable and real. It has great...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, UNIX, T2, Intel Corp., RISC/Unix, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- AMD: Is closing the quad-core deficit enough?
- AMD kicked off the "premier" of their latest microprocessor offering with a launch party at the Herbst International Exhibit Hall Monday night. Partners like VMware, HP, Dell, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others were on hand or were there by video link to celebrate the launch of AMD's single-die quad-core...
- Tags: Processor, Performance, Quad-core, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, SPECjbb2005, FBDIMM, Scott Wasson, Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Details of Intel CSI "QuickPath" released
- Three weeks before Intel's fall IDF Intel Developer Forum, analyst David Kanter of Real World Technologies has compiled and released a detailed paper of Intel's next CPU memory architecture called CSI Common System Interconnect. CSI (which Intel will market under the name "QuickPath") is the memory architecture that the second...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Common System Interface, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
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