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Java Fast Sockets: Enabling high-speed Java communications on high performance clusters

;-)Sorry Ed, still laughing about a "high performance Java program". Sorry my bad...

Tags: Programming languages, Leadership, Java, high-performance

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

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

Supermicro launches Nvidia Tesla fueled server

Supermicro launches Nvidia Tesla fueled serverand the bottom line is???I know if you have to ask it means you can't afford it but I can't resist. How much does it cost? I already use a Supermico server motherboard and have the highest regard for this company.

Tags: Supermicro, Tesla, server, NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

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

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

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

High-Performance Hypervisor Architectures: Virtualization in HPC Systems

Virtualization presents both challenges and opportunities for HPC systems and applications. This paper reviews them and also offers technical insights into two key challenges faced by future high-end machines: the I/O challenges they face and the multi-core nature of future HPC platforms. Concerning the latter, they argue the need to...

Tags: High-performance, HPC, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-03-20

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

Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build

Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Windows 7 security default worries experts

How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...

Tags: Operating systems, Ubunutu, Microsoft Windows 7, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Win7

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed

Where is the love for Nvidia?A number of questions come up:Why not Nvidia chipsets anymore? Why did they go back to Intel for core logic when they slammed them in a previous tech show for power management concerns?What happened to added graphics options on the Mac Pro? Where...

Tags: Mice, Servers, Desktops, hardware, Mini, GT 120, NVidia Corp., server, mouse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Magic Mouse

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Building a Fountain of Knowledge

Texas Tech needed to build a new high performance computing HPC cluster to attract top-name researchers, accelerate research efforts with the fastest technology, and help fulfill its mission to be in the top tier of Texas research universities. The university deployed an HPC solution with Dell PowerEdge servers running Rocks...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Knowledge, High-performance Computing, InfiniBand, Cloud Computing, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

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

Would you buy a personal supercomputer (for $8K)?

Silicon Graphics International today unveiled a "personal supercomputer," called the Octane III, with a price tag that starts at $7.995. For some reason - and maybe it's just me - I just can't seem to figure out who the target customer is for this machine. I think...

Tags: Supercomputer, High-performance, Silicon Graphics Inc., Leadership, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Tech Needs New Words: Tech Marketing Needs Your Help

A few other words..."Microsoftonomics" - How to deal with economies of scale like where Microsoft lives. The high tech version of Voodoo Economics."Google-google dancing" - For those times where someone using Google finds something on the first try and just has to dance."Ciscotem Engineering" - Building systems with just...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Tech marketing, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

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

Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building

It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...

Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-12