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InfiniBand Goes Long

May 06, 2008 | Since InfiniBand came onto the scene, users have focused their efforts on using the high performance network fabric to connect compute and storage boxes within the datacenter. But a couple of enterprising companies, Network Equipment Technologies and Obsidian Research Corp., have developed InfiniBand connectivity for wide area networks.
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Extending 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the Edge

Apr 25, 2008 | Since Gigabit Ethernet began appearing in datacenters a decade ago, performance demands and computing strategies have increased dramatically. Extending 10-Gigabit connectivity to the edge of the datacenter is expected to fill that gap. But the market is searching for a solution that is as simple and cost-effective as Gigabit Ethernet is today.
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Analysts Boost InfiniBand Outlook

Apr 18, 2008 | Buoyed by the recent good news of the upgraded forecast for InfiniBand adoption, the InfiniBand Trade Association has been trumpeting the fabric's growing prospects in both high performance computing and more traditional enterprise settings. As the software and hardware ecosystem matures, InfiniBand penetration seems to be accelerating.
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Ethernet's Role in Greening the Datacenter

Mar 21, 2008 | According to some reports, power usage already represents up to half the cost of datacenter operations. With energy prices on the rise and growing concerns about the ecological ramifications of global warming, IT managers may want to take a look at how the next generation of Ethernet switches can help make the datacenter more energy efficient.
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IDC's Top 10 HPC Predictions For 2008

Jan 04, 2008 | IDC's team of high performance computing analysts provide their top predictions for the HPC market for the new year. They continue to see fastest growth at the low end and declining demand at the top end. The IDC'ers also offer commentary on the chances for a petaflop system showing up in 2008, the brewing InfiniBand-Ethernet interconnect battle, the power/cooling challenges, the evolving role of HPC accelerators, and the impact of multicore hardware on software licensing.
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InfiniBand and 10GbE Head for Showdown

Dec 21, 2007 | Will 10GbE reach critical mass in the datacenter next year? The beginnings of a viable 10GbE ecosystem are now emerging and a number of analysts think 2008 may be a watershed year for this technology. Meanwhile, InfiniBand has established itself in HPC and is looking to expand into the broader enterprise. The upcoming year will see initial battle lines being drawn in the struggle for interconnect share in the datacenter.
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Mellanox on InfiniBand and FCoE

May 10, 2008 | Blocks and Files | Blocks and Files talked with Thad Omura, VP for product marketing at Mellanox, and asked him a set of questions about InfiniBand, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and datacenter Ethernet.
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10 GbE and the Data Center

Apr 30, 2008 | redOrbit | Higher-speed Ethernet standards are on the way for both data centers and computing applications.
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Voltaire Records 94% YoY Revenue Growth in Q108

May 12, 2008 | Voltaire Ltd. today announced financial results for the three month period that ended March 31, 2008.
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GigOptix Announces Chipsets for Optical Interconnect

May 09, 2008 | GigOptix announced that the HXR4104, a 4x10.3Gbps Transimpedance Limiting Amplifier (TIA/LA) and the HXT4104, the industry's lowest power 4x10.3Gbps Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VSCEL) driver are available now as a chipset
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Voltaire Offers Vendor-Neutral OFED Support for InfiniBand

May 07, 2008 | Voltaire has announced a new customer support model whereby the company will provide support services to customers using Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution regardless of the brand of InfiniBand hardware used by the customer.
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Chelsio 10GbE Unified Wire To Support IBM Cluster 1350

May 05, 2008 | Chelsio Communications announced its high performance and low power T3-based 10GbE adapter cards will serve as the Unified Wire interconnect for the IBM System Cluster e1350.
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The Linley Group Sponsors High-Speed Interconnect Design Seminar

May 01, 2008 | The Linley Group is sponsoring a seminar on High-Speed Interconnect Design to be held May 14th in San Jose, Calif. It will explore industry trends and spotlight specific challenges in applying current and next-generation interconnect technologies and products.
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Mellanox Wins 'Best of Interop' Award

Apr 30, 2008 | Mellanox Technologies has been named 'Best of Interop' in the Data Center and Storage category for its ConnectX EN 10GigE server and storage I/O adapter with Fibre Channel over lossless Ethernet.
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The New Science of Visual Analytics

When Jim Thomas set out to find new ways to deal with the mountains of information our society generates, he didn't just create a new organization, he created a new science. In this article we'll take a look at how the National Visualization and Analytics Center is transforming the problem of finding needles in haystacks into an opportunity for a more secure future.
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The Week in Review

ORNL Jaguar doubles its performance; the SC08 Cluster Challenge is gearing up; the University of Central Florida uses Army dollars to purchase an IBM super; and IBM's RoadRunner prepares to break the petaflop barrier. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Revaluating FPGAs for 64-bit Floating-Point Calculations

We now have generally available 2.5 GHz quad-core Opterons and Virtex-5 LX330, SX95T and recently announced SX240T FPGAs. In addition to this, Xilinx is releasing a new version of their floating-point cores that reduces the amount of logic and DSP slices needed for building floating-point function units. Taken together it is time to revisit Opteron floating-point performance versus FPGA performance.
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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Read more...

IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Read more...

IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Read more...

Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date. Read more...

2 AMD Executives Out in Restructuring Amid Slump

May 12 | BusinessWeek | Two executives have left AMD, including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. Read more...

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Podcast: Interview with Ben Bennett of ClearSpeed Technology

Today, HPC organizations are requiring substantially more floating point performance to solve real-world problems. In this podcast, Ben Bennett, ClearSpeed General Manager, discusses how acceleration technology can improve the overall performance of standard x86-based systems...