Supercomputing

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• The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 501
  jbrodkin writes SiCortex had an idea that it thought would take the supercomputing world by storm — build the most energy-efficient HPC clusters on the planet. But the recession, and the difficulties of penetrating a market dominated by Intel-based machines, proved to be too much for the company to handle. SiCortex ...
  6 days ago

• Who’s Up, Who’s Down in Tech Company Earnings Land

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  trends , Public Companies , Stock Market Gregory T. Huang wrote: Well, we can’t all be Amazon. While the Seattle-based e-commerce giant (NASDAQ: AMZN ) raked in a $199 million profit for the third quarter of 2009—a 68 percent increase in net income over the same period last year—Microsoft ...
  1 week ago

• Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 501
  angry tapir writes "Asustek has unveiled its first supercomputer, the desktop computer-sized ESC 1000, which uses Nvidia graphics processors to attain speeds up to 1.1 teraflops. Asuss ESC 1000 comes with a 3.33GHz Intel LGA1366 Xeon W3580 microprocessor designed for servers, along with 960 graphics processing cores ...
  1 week ago

• Happy birthday web browser

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  Well, technically happy birthday almost two weeks ago on October 13. The browser turns 15. Yep, if the web browser — that digital tool so old it’s losing teeth and has hair growing out its ears — couldn’t even get a driver’s license if it were a person. Innovation is fast and furious and little things like ...
  2 weeks ago

• MPI-3 Forum Seeks Feedback from Fortran MPI Developers

  
  The Musings of Chris Samuel — Authority: 119
  In a posting to the Open-MPI development list Jeff Squyres has requested feedback from Fortran MPI developers on proposed changes to the bindings of MPI functions in MPI-3. He writes: In the MPI-3 Forum, we’re working on revamping the Fortran bindings to be “better” (for a variety of definitions of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #2 — the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  
  Lifeboat News: The Blog — Authority: 103
  Ever have a day when everything went wrong? Say you predicted you would have a normal day. But your alarm clock didn’t ring. Already running late, you couldn’t find your backpack (or whatever you use). Finally you stagger out the door, but your car won’t start. Later, you find out you missed a surprise ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fedora 12 Pre release Ready

  
  The Short Names — Authority: 145
  Fedora anounced today that the Pre release of fedora 12 is available for download. But be sure to read the release notes and to keep in mind that this a a pre releaseFedora 12Release notes
  2 weeks ago

• Oracle, Sell MySQL To A Third Party Says MySQL Founder Michael Widenius

  
  The Short Names — Authority: 145
  MySQL founder is asking Oracle to give the MySQL to third party to avoid trouble with EU regarding it’s acquisition of SUN. According the press release on Michael Widenius’ blog below;MYSQL FOUNDER OUTLINES SOLUTION:INSTEAD OF LETTING SUN SUFFER,ORACLE SHOULD SELL MYSQL(ORCL, JAVA)Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius says ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wolfram Alpha Rolls Out $50 iPhone App

  
  Technofriends — Authority: 141
  Wolfram Alpha ( the search engine, which was earlier termed as a Google killer) has released an Apple iPhone and iPod Touch app. The app allows users to access the “vast resources” of the computational knowledge engine. The app plugs directly into the Wolfram Alpha’s supercomputing cloud to deliver the ...
  3 weeks ago

• More optics in the supercomputing future?

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  Yes, http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24255/?nlid=2439&a=f . From the Technology Review editor’s blog link: This week at the  Frontiers in Optics conference in San Jose, Jeffrey Kash of  IBM Research laid out his vision of the future of supercomputers. The fastest supercomputer in the world, ...
  3 weeks ago

• HP Instant Capacity (iCap)

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 112
  One of the things that may affect any clusters you have – or other systems – is that management does not want to spend enough to handle any possible load.  With a cluster, this means that you may not be able to handle a fail-over because there is not enough spare processing power to handle the extra load when it ...
  3 weeks ago

• 13 October, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 106
  Brainy Jugglers, Are You Smarter?, Thieving Veggie Spiders, This Week in The End of The World, Making Fish Happy, Tasty Receptor, Chinese Dyslexia, Retroviral Correlations, Breast Cancer DNA Cracked, Smaller Batteries and Bigger Calculations, Tick-Tock Bio Clock, And More…
  3 weeks ago

• A Blonde Walked into an HPC Article...

  
  Adventures in Applied Math — Authority: 118
  I like to keep up on the latest news in high-performance computing (HPC) as much as any other computational scientist, but there are some websites that evidently dont want me as a reader. I dont fit their model of what it means to be a scientist, you see. I read this particularly problematic article and had to ...
  4 weeks ago

• HP Tech Day: HP Superdome

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 112
  I was recently invited to take part in an HP Tech Day in San Jose, California , celebrating the 10th anniversary of the HP Superdome (the most advanced server in the Integrity line).  This was an event designed to introduce several of us in the blog world to the HP Superdome.  The attendees included David Adams ...
  4 weeks ago

• Larry Smarr on the Internet, Past and Future; ViaSat Acquiring WildBlue Communications; SAIC’s Retired Founder Calls HQ Move ‘Inevitable;’ & More San Diego BizTech News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Roundup , Internet , people Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: San Diego’s biztech news was tilted heavily toward the Internet last week, anchored by two in-depth stories about the Internet and Larry Smarr, the director of the California Institute for Information Technology and Communications. You can get that and ...
  5 weeks ago

• Cray, Isilon, Marchex Weigh In With Their Company Cultures Boiled Down to One Word

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  culture , IT , people Gregory T. Huang wrote: How do you go about summarizing a company’s culture in one word? I haven’t a clue, but whenever I ask CEOs, they always come up with something interesting —and often surprising. In the past couple of months, I’ve been asking top executives at ...
  5 weeks ago

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