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IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPCSupercomputer Uses.I don't want to sound dumb, but unless the NNSA does nuclear simulations couldn't they keep track of their nuclear stockpile with a Windows, Linux or Mac machine? :-)Update: I read another article related to the supercomputer that states they...

Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, supercomputing, IBM Corp., HPC, Intel Corp., chip, Crysis

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Sun's new servers get intimate with Intel and Microsoft

John Fowler Executive VP Sun Microsystems announced a pair of new Servers yesterday at Sun's head quarters in Menlo Park California.  Fowler showed off one of the servers last week at Intel IDF in San Francisco an posed with Pat Gelsinger standing on the left in picture to the left...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., HPC, Servers, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-27

AMD answers to controversial use of retired benchmarks in China

AMD answers to controversial use of retired benchmarks in ChinaI listened - Berlind was wrongBerlind said, "Forget about the quiet period. The quiet period doesn't matter."Yes it does. If Intel used old benchmarks when there was no reason they could have used more current ones, they were lying. If AMD...

Tags: Processors, SEC, quad-core, Clovertown, IBM Corp., clock speed, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., HPC, Intel Corp., John Fruehe

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Towards High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations

During the last several years, teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Louisiana Tech University, and Tennessee Technological University, focused on efficient redundancy strategies for head and service nodes of High-Performance Computing HPC systems in order to pave the way for High Availability HA in HPC. These nodes typically run critical...

Tags: High Availability, High-performance Computing, High-performance, University Of Reading, HPC, Cloud Computing

White papers 2006-10-10

From the Data Center to the Desktop: Putting High Performance Computing to Work

Nowadays, new power-efficient, multi-core platform technology offers the possibility of using HPC in any environment, from clustered platforms in the enterprise data center to four or eight-processor systems on the researcher, analyst or designer's desktop. The biggest challenge to creating these new, mainstream HPC systems is developing software that can...

Tags: Desktop, Data Center, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Multi-core, HPC, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2006-06-01

High performance computing revenues up 39% in first half of 2004

In the first half of 2004, high performance computing revenues increased by 39% to $3.4 bln. Unit shipments nearly doubled (a 98% increase) to 70,190 units. For the full year, the HPC market added about $1 bln in revenue. The average selling price for HPC declined 30% to $40,100.

Tags: revenue, HPC

Blog posts 2005-02-17

High performance computing revenues up 39% in first half of 2004

In the first half of 2004, high performance computing revenues increased by 39% to $3.4 bln. Unit shipments nearly doubled (a 98% increase) to 70,190 units. For the full year, the HPC market added about $1 bln in revenue. The average selling price for HPC declined 30% to $40,100.

Tags: HPC, revenue

Blog posts 2005-02-17

Additional Resources

Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet

Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yetThe most important statement...."I’ve not seen any recent comparative studies about Mac v PC TCO"So basically you're just spouting a load of subjective opinion.RE: Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yetEat moar Apples.TCO analysis would have been usefulYou state that productivity counts, yet discount a business...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Desktops, Apple Macintosh, TCO, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

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

Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer

Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Supercomputer, Cray Inc., Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-16

(The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)

(The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)$2000 build-it-yourself PCGreat article would do it if I didn't already have a pretty good PC. How about a build-it-yourself gaming laptop?RE: (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)I have a similar system with only 4Gb of cheaper ram , 2 Tb...

Tags: Corporate communications, Games, Desktops, PC, video, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureA correction(?)[i]and a new proprietory OS called VMS - that eventually became the basis for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0[/i]The first version of Windows NT was 3.5, not 4.0.Also, I think its not correct to say VMS formed the basis of NT. It is true...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Digital Equipment Corp., VMS, data-processing

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

High-end Windows Server 2008 launch on tap

Launch-happy Microsoft is set to roll out yet another enterprise product this month: Windows HPC (High-Performance Computing) 2008 Server. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Microsoft Corp., HPC 2008 Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-10

News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-28

DataSynapse survey claims HPC leading IT initiative

Datasynapse recently released the results of a survey that indicated that IT executives were more concerned about high performance computing than virtualization (I guess that meant using virtual machine software to create a virtual server-based environment rather than a more comprehensive use of the term). I must have not been...

Tags: Information Technology, DataSynapse, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing

David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...

Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-18

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

ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million

ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 millionFire HectorThat's where they need to start. This guy has a terrible, terrible track record and it's showing its colors now. AMD has some AMAZING engineers and talent. Probably some of the most talented processor engineers around but bad management =...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Operational accounting, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, processor, acquisition

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

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

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-19