Spectra Logic Finds Success in HPC Market Focus

Aug 25, 2009 | While not yet a household name in the HPC sense, storage vendor Spectra Logic is methodically pursuing its HPC strategy, and its relatively newfound devotion to this market is starting to yield some results.
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SGI's Personal Cluster: Lots of Options, Lots of Challenges

Aug 20, 2009 | Earlier this month SGI announced its new CloudRack X2, a deskside (optionally rack-mountable) workgroup supercomputing solution aimed at the same crowd as Cray's CX-1. This latest evolution of the CloudRack line continues the move to more standard rack footprints.
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The Week in Review

Aug 20, 2009 | SGI cuts graphics division; Internet-scale businesses have developed their own approaches to storing big data; and the International Space Station gets a new number cruncher. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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IBM Computing on Demand Evolves Toward Cloud Computing Service

Aug 19, 2009 | As IT budgets have gotten squeezed, more customers are looking at cloud computing as a way to avoid up-front capital costs, while getting access to as many CPU cycles as they need. In response, all the big IT firms are scrambling to develop a cloud computing product and services strategy, and IBM is no exception.
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The Week in Review

Aug 13, 2009 | Dan Reed blogs about efficient datacenters; Intel announces a parallel computing application for Facebook; and PGI Visual Fortran supports MPI debugging on Windows. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Penguin Adds HPC On-Demand Service

Aug 12, 2009 | Linux cluster maker Penguin Computing hopped on the HPC-in-a-cloud bandwagon this week with the announcement of its HPC on-demand service. Called Penguin On Demand (POD), the service consists of an HPC compute infrastructure whose capacity can be rented on a pay-as-you-go basis or through a monthly subscription.
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In the Midst of an Economic Earthquake, Cray Finds Its Footing

Aug 06, 2009 | Cray delivered a stack of good news this week, topped off by its latest financial results. This could be the company's best chance in years to turn the business into a money-maker.
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The Week in Review

Aug 06, 2009 | Cray's second quarter financial statement shows profit; Oak Ridge plans to upgrade its Jaguar system to six-core Istanbuls; and Intel halts shipping on SSDs. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Cluster Resources Takes Aim at Commercial Datacenter

Aug 05, 2009 | Cluster Resources, the middleware vendor that brought its Moab cluster management technology to market, is making a major move to broaden its footprint beyond the company's high performance computing base.
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Intel Brings Parallel Computing to High School

Jul 30, 2009 | Earlier this month Intel announced it was helping lead a parallel programming experience for high school students. The three-day "Clubhouse Parallel Universe Boot-Camp" was held at Brooklyn Technical High School. There is a clear business driver here, but in this case, the business driver lines up well with the broader societal goals of enabling users and developers to do more with technology.
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NextIO Brings I/O Virtualization to HPC

Jul 30, 2009 | By using PCI Express as the basis of its I/O virtualization solutions, NextIO has opened up some interesting applications for high performance computing.
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The Week in Review

Jul 30, 2009 | SGI CEO asserts commitment to Itanium; Computing Community Consortium releases Network Science & Engineering Research Agenda; and some stimulus money finds its way to HPC. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Fusion Gets Faster

Jul 27, 2009 | When it comes to scientific computing, the amount of science reaped from a simulation is largely determined by the speed and scalability of the software. Likewise, a code's speed is often at the mercy of its I/O performance. The more efficient the I/O, the faster the code and the more simulations can be run over a period of time.
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LexisNexis Brings Its Data Management Magic To Bear on Scientific Data

Jul 23, 2009 | LexisNexis has built its business on bringing together billions of different records from many different sources. Recently the company has been working with Sandia National Laboratories to understand whether the LexisNexis data tools might help researchers manage and understand the flood of data coming from the supercomputers and high resolution scientific instruments that drive discovery today.
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The Week in Review

Jul 23, 2009 | HP markets to Sun customers; Google datacenters take advantage of Belgian climate; and IBM partners with Juniper to offer one-stop datacenter shopping. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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SGI Sticks to Its Roadmap, But It's the End of the Line for the Itanium Supers

Jul 22, 2009 | It's been just a little over two months since Rackable Systems acquired SGI and merged the two product lines. From all appearances, it has been a fairly smooth transition. A lot of that has to do with the fact that the new company has left both sets of product offerings intact, although the future "Ultraviolet" system will change that somewhat.
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Cray Adds CX1 Variant to Entice First Time HPC Users

Jul 16, 2009 | Putting a Cray supercomputer in your office just got a lot cheaper. The company has unveiled a low-end derivative of its CX1 personal deskside system for high performance computing. Called the CX1-LC (for "Light Configuration"), the product has a starting price of less than $12,000, which is less than half the cost of the entry-level machine for the standard CX1 offering.
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Benchmarking Your Cloud

Jul 16, 2009 | It was inevitable that with all the hype and marketing dollars directed at cloud computing these days that someone would eventually start trying to use them for real work. And once people starting using them for real work, then there are actual performance results. Which leads to standardized testing, and before you know it, we have full-fledged benchmarking on our hands.
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Beyond Speeds and Feeds

Jul 13, 2009 | How chip architecture is redefining high-performance computing productivity.
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Microsoft Releases New Software Tools for Researchers

Jul 13, 2009 | As scientists increasingly rely on big data to drive their research, a new set of software tools is emerging. Two of these new tools, developed by Microsoft's External Research division, were launched on Monday at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington.
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Wolfram Alpha: A Web-Based Application That Embraced Supercomputers

Jul 09, 2009 | Wolfram Alpha, the Web-based computational engine introduced in May, is not a traditional supercomputing application, but relies on supercomputers to satisfy its unique requirements.
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Spider Up and Spinning Connections to All Computing Platforms at ORNL

Jul 09, 2009 | Spider, the world's biggest Lustre-based, centerwide file system, has been fully tested to support Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new petascale Cray XT4/XT5 Jaguar supercomputer and is now offering early access to scientists.
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TeraGrid '09: Student Participation Soars

Jul 08, 2009 | There was a new energy at this year's TeraGrid '09 conference thanks to an outstanding turnout for the student program. Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, more than 100 high school, undergraduate and graduate students were able to participate in the conference.
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TeraGrid '09: Thriving in an Exponentially Changing World

Jul 06, 2009 | Before he even took the podium, Ed Seidel was one of the buzz makers at the TeraGrid '09 conference. The day before his keynote, it was announced that he was stepping in as acting assistant director of the National Science Foundation's math and physical sciences directorate. For his talk at the conference, however, Seidel focused on the issues and efforts within his home at NSF, the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
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TeraGrid '09: OSG and TeraGrid Collaboration

Jul 06, 2009 | Paul Avery, a recognized leader in advanced grid and networking for science, delivered the first keynote address at the recent TeraGrid '09 conference in Arlington, Virginia. A professor of physics at the University of Florida, Avery is co-principal investigator and founding member of the Open Science Grid (OSG). Avery talked about the history of OSG, some of the projects that leverage its resources, and OSG's relationship with TeraGrid.
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