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GAPS 0.80.3547 (Mac)

GAPS is an image sorting and viewing application written to deal with enormous folders full of images. It can easily handle hundreds of thousands of images per folder and continue to operate quickly and stably. GAPS' DuperFinder feature can scan all of your image folders for duplicates, shows you...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, HPC Technologies, GAPS 0.80.3547, GAPS

Software downloads 2008-04-05

Mail Dynamic Signature Fix 2.0.27 (Mac)

DynSigFix is a hack to repair a bug in Apple's Mail.app present since 10.4.0. This unofficial patch restores the ability to modify email signatures via AppleScript.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Signature, HPC Technologies, DynSigFix, E-mail, Patches, Scripting Languages, Online Communications, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2006-03-13

BB 1.1 (Mac)

BB is a very small, very simple webcam / security camera viewer for Mac OS X. Just give BB the URL of an image and a refresh rate. The latest image will always be visible on your desktop. You can choose to display the image in a normal window, always-on-top,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Security Camera, Image, HPC Technologies, BB 1.1, BB, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-03-15

Additional Resources

Maintaining a Leading Position in the Marketplace

Working with some of the largest names in the automotive, aerospace and construction industries, Hutchinson consistently brings to the marketplace new technologies to improve the safety, comfort and well-being. This innovation relies heavily on the company's High-Performance Computing HPC cluster, which is used to run "Solvers" for solving mathematical systems...

Tags: Marketplace, Intel Corp., Research & Development, Aerospace & Defense, Leadership, Cloud Computing, Business Operations, Manufacturing, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

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

Rackable acquires Silicon Graphics for $25 million

Leading server and data center provider Rackable Systems, Inc. announced today that it will acquire Silicon Graphics, Inc. SGI for approximately $25 million in cash. The combined businesses will offer hardware and software technology within large-scale x86 cluster computing, HPC, Internet, Cloud Computing, large-scale data storage environments...

Tags: Rackable Systems, Silicon Graphics Inc., Litigation, Balance Sheets, Data Centers, Personal Finance, Government, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-01

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

Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibility

Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibilityI knew the cheap shot was somewhere in thereBut I had to wait until the very end to find it. Both systems had binary lock states. The Sun guys went with singularity and the Windows guys went with trinary lock states. However,...

Tags: Operating systems, Know-nothings, Microsoft Windows, delicate sensibility, Microsoft Windows 7, red meat, sensibility, meat, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Firm Cuts Insurers' Modeling Time Nearly 95 Percent With High-Performance Solutions

IHA Consultants, a small IT consultancy, helps healthcare and property/casualty insurers by providing Web-based stochastic solutions for advanced actuarial modeling. The company's Stochastic Actuarial Reserve and Trend Model solutions use Microsoft High-Performance Computing HPC technologies to develop financial reporting and forecasting models that are not possible using nonstochastic methods. With...

Tags: Solution, Actuary, Insurance Company, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

Case studies 2008-11-18

Cloud Computing for Parallel Scientific HPC Applications: Feasibility of Running Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Models on Amazon's EC2

This paper describes the application of HPC standard benchmark tests to Amazon's EC2 cloud computing system, in order to explore the utility of EC2 for modest HPC style applications. Based on these benchmarks one finds that the EC2 cloud system is emerging as a credible solution for supporting responsive on-demand,...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., HPC, EC2, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-23

High Performance Computing Webcast Series: Windows HPC Server Development, the MPI Application Model

Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces innovative features for traditional High Performance Computing solutions. Significant improvements have been implemented across the entire HPC stack. Learn about the new NetworkDirect RDMA technology and how it enables very fast, high-bandwidth, distributed shared memory computing. MS MPI is now integrated with Event Tracing for...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Server, Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, MS MPI, Job Scheduler Architecture, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Webcasts 2008-10-02

Mentor Graphics Deploys 10 Gigabit Network to Support Engineering-Driven Operations

Mentor Graphics Corporation offers leading Electronic Design Automation EDA solutions for engineers, created by engineers. Design innovation is at the heart of the company, and roughly half of its workforce is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of EDA technologies. To support its engineering and High-Performance Computing HPC needs, Mentor recently...

Tags: Mentor Graphics Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-09-01

Institute Expects Increased Performance and Productivity With Windows HPC Server 2008

The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology KITECH provides High-Performance Computing HPC services and simulation technologies to small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses in Korea. KITECH plans to upgrade its clusters from Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to Windows HPC Server 2008. It expects to improve overall cluster performance, save a great...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-08-25

Australian Company Delivers Solutions Faster, Expands Capabilities With HPC Solution

ISA Technologies, an IT services and innovative solutions provider in Australia, wanted to enhance its High-Performance Computing HPC services. By deploying Windows HPC Server 2008, it can support more line-of-business applications, and it has standardized its deployment processes. In addition, more employees, including application developers who use the Microsoft .NET...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, .Net, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2008-08-21

With Its New PowerXCell 8i Product Line, IBM Intends to Take Accelerated Processing Into the HPC Mainstream

Fifteen years ago, the High-Performance Computing HPC market started to abandon its data-parallel, vector architectural lineage and turned to commodity-priced scalar processors. One by one, the other custom components of HPC systems have been pushed aside in favor of cheaper, standards-based alternatives. With some notable exceptions, most HPC system component...

Tags: Standards, IBM Corp., International Data Group, HPC, Quality, Processors, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-08-01

HP, Intel and Yahoo team on cloud computing research

Updated: HP, Intel and Yahoo have combined to launch an open source test bed that will encompass multiple data centers for cloud computing research. According to the companies statement, the trio of companies will create a global testing environment to examine software, hardware and management issues created...

Tags: Team, Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Open Source, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Business Structures, Data Centers, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-29

TechNet Webcast: Parallel and HPC Computing at Microsoft: A Survey of Technologies and Tools (Level 300)

The presenter of this webcast gives in-depth training on the new developer tools in Windows High Performance Computing HPC Server 2008. The developer tools landscape changes dramatically with the emergence of multi-core/many-core systems. Microsoft is strategically investing parallel tools (languages, debuggers, profilers, etc.) that scale from multi-cores to clusters and...

Tags: Development Tool, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Computing, Tool, Microsoft TechNet, Productivity, Development Tools, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Webcasts 2008-07-08

Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbits

I've been out on tour for my new Microsoft 2.0 book this week and haven't been posting as regularly as usual. So here's a grab bag of a few Microsoft-related notes of interest. * Yahoo has postponed its shareholder meeting. Just when you thought the seemingly-never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo...

Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Windows, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Virtualization, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Deploying Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Code name "Longhorn") offers new features and several improvements over Windows Server predecessors. Some of the new or improved feature areas include server deployment, management, security, high availability, virtualization, terminal services, web technologies and high performance computing HPC. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 offers a mission-critical e-mail...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Version, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-04-01

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