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An Interview with ISC'09 Keynote Speaker Andy von Bechtolsheim

Jun 21, 2009 | When 1,500 leading members of the world’s high performance computing community convene June 23-26 at the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference, The opening keynote address will be presented by Andreas “Andy” von Bechtolsheim, the legendary co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder and Chief Development Officer of Arista Networks. Von Bechtolsheim will discuss “The Evolution of Interconnects for High Performance Computing.”
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QLogic Flexes InfiniBand Muscles with IBM Deal

Apr 29, 2009 | QLogic Corp. made its InfiniBand presence felt this week with the announcement of an OEM deal with IBM. Under the agreement, IBM will offer QLogic's quad data rate director-class switches as part of IBM's new Dynamic Infrastructure product set.
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Ethernet Fabrics Offer Way Forward for Seismic Applications

Mar 24, 2009 | Ethernet technology has served the industry well over the past few decades. But given the growing demands on oil and gas datacenters -- particularly in terms of compute, storage, and bandwidth requirements -- traditional datacenter networks are becoming inhibitors in the race to stay ahead.
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Cisco Takes Its Shot at Grand Unification for the Datacenter

Mar 19, 2009 | Cisco has announced its much-anticipated Unified Computing Solution (UCS). Behind the marketing is a mostly enterprise play, but the company is hinting at an HPC angle for UCS. We'll tell you what we know now, and how this might impact your high performance computing deployment plans.
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Mellanox Builds Bridges to Ethernet, Fibre Channel

Feb 17, 2009 | Leveraging the momentum it has achieved with 40 Gbps InfiniBand, Mellanox Technologies is entering the network gateway business. Today the company introduced BridgeX, a technology that offers fabric convergence for SAN and LAN infrastructure in multi-protocol datacenters.
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The Myth of Cut-Through Switching in Datacenter Networks

Feb 10, 2009 | Cut-through switching is mentioned as a requirement for datacenter switches. Originating from high performance computing environments, cut-through switching was aimed to reduce network latencies to the minimum. In this article, we review the background behind cut-through switching, and examine the effectiveness of the cut-through scheme in typical datacenter networks.
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Super Interconnect Maker Quadrics Going Titsup

May 25, 2009 | The Register | Quadrics to shut its doors by the end of June.
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Cisco Discloses Server ASICs

May 21, 2009 | EE Times | Custom chip gives Nehalem a memory boost.
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100-Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

Apr 20, 2009 | Network World | Pre-standard 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet products are expected to hit the market later this year.
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InfiniBand: Caught in the Ethernet Meatgrinder

Mar 25, 2009 | The Register | InfiniBand supplier Voltaire may be moving towards a twin InfiniBand/Ethernet strategy as InfiniBand looks to get boxed in by 10gigE and the coming 100gigE.
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Ethernet Switch Market in for Tough First Quarter

Mar 03, 2009 | eWeek | Dell'Oro Group says the Ethernet switch market could see revenue declines of 10 percent or more in the first quarter of 2009.
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Good Old Ethernet

Feb 25, 2009 | Linux Magazine | Did you know there are two projects that can give Ethernet a performance boost?
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Brookhaven Lab Selects Force10 ExaScale Family

Jul 01, 2009 | Force10 Networks today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labs has selected the ExaScale family of virtualized switch/routers to help power its network.
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Virage Logic Sees Strong Adoption of 40nm Product Portfolio

Jun 30, 2009 | Virage Logic Corp. today announced that since being named TSMC's 40-namomenter (nm) early development partner in 2007, the company has seen strong adoption of its extensive 40nm product portfolio.
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Zarlink Intros New ZLynx Active Optical Cable

Jun 25, 2009 | Zarlink Semiconductor today announced that its new ZLynx 4x10 Gbps active optical cable with quad small form-factor (QSFP) terminations for InfiniBand QDR is available for sampling.
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Voltaire Introduces Open MPI Accelerator Software

Jun 24, 2009 | Voltaire Ltd. today announced Open MPI Accelerator (OMA) software that significantly increases the performance of Open MPI-based applications in server and storage environments by nearly 30 percent.
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SGI Intros x86 Servers with QDR InfiniBand

Jun 24, 2009 | SGI today announced the first Rackable x86 scale-out servers to support both on-board Quad Data Rate (QDR) 40Gb InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet connections.
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Voltaire Strengthens InfiniBand Leadership

Jun 24, 2009 | Voltaire Ltd. today announced that its switches now power more than 50 percent of the InfiniBand deployments -- more than double the share of any other InfiniBand systems vendor -- on the 33rd edition of the TOP500 list.
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Book Review: Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, edited by David A. Bader, is the first book in CRC's Computational Science Series, edited by Horst Simon. Although the book is a collection of papers, Bader has done an excellent job of creating a compilation that holds together and covers a broad topic very well.
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The Week in Review

Cilk++ used in parallelization of the FP-tree algorithm for pattern mining; Istanbul benchmark results posted; and the latest on the NVIDIA Tesla shortage. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

Last week's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) was a convenient excuse for vendors to announce a raft of new products, but three, in particular, stood out.
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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

Jul 01 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference. Read more...

HPC From the Beach

Jul 01 | Linux Magazine | How can getting to the ocean help with HPC computing? Read more...

DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

Jun 29 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems. Read more...

Supercomputers Go From Biggest to Cheapest

Jun 29 | Computerworld | The bottom of the TOP500 reveals the coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing. Read more...

CPUs Gear Up For -- and Some Avoid -- Hot Chips

Jun 18 | EE Times | Parallel software also takes spotlight at Stanford confab. Read more...

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Webcast: Dell Expands HPC Access and Adoption with Intel Cluster Ready Program

Source: Addison Snell, GM/VP, Tabor Research; sponsored by Dell

Many organizations that could benefit from the use of HPC clusters find that it is complicated to get the systems up and running because of limited IT resources or the complexities of the clusters themselves. Learn how the Intel Cluster Ready program, for which Dell was an original partner, seeks to address this challenge for entry level and mid-range HPC users.

Video White Paper: Architecting a Better Network Storage Solution

BlueArc's Titan architecture represents an evolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale bandwidth, IOPS, and overall data capacity well beyond conventional software-based devices. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to four usable petabytes of tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements, offering a competitive advantage for businesses, researchers, or other enterprises seeking to better manage data growth while still ensuring optimal performance.

Webcast: HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio & Sun HPC ClusterTools

Sun Studio Compilers and Tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compiler support. Learn about all this and the latest in Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1.