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Rackable announces Q4, posts loss for Q and
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Rackable announces Q4, posts loss for Q and

Rackable announced results for Q4 and fiscal 2008 on Friday, and it wasn’t good GAAP net loss per share from continuing operations was ($0.61) for the fourth quarter...

Terabit per second Ethernet may be
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Terabit per second Ethernet may be

From Ars Technica Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables...

ClearSpeed CEO resigns, company on hard
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ClearSpeed CEO resigns, company on hard

From a story at ElectronicsWeekly.com comes news that Tom Beese, the now former CEO of accelerator company ClearSpeed, has hit the bricks. Two weeks ago the company...

Penguin Releases Scyld Clusterware
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Penguin Releases Scyld Clusterware

From Penguin last week Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its high performance computing (HPC) cluster management...

US stimulus final makes investments in science,
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US stimulus final makes investments in science,

From a press release issued by CRA Members of the computing research community today praised Congress for passing an economic stimulus package that includes substantial...

Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive
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Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive

Well, it looks like someone at the EE Times hit the publish button a few hours early, since they refer to a press release for tomorrow in the present tense. But...

Using virtualization to make many servers look like one
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Using virtualization to make many servers look like one

ScaleMP founder and CEO Shai Fultheim has an article today at the Virtualization Journal extolling the benefits of using server virtualization to aggregate many...

Timelapse installation of Ireland
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Timelapse installation of Ireland

Last week SGI posted a release about the installation of a 2,500 core Altix ICE in Ireland last November. The system peaks at 25 TFLOPS, and made it to slot 117...

Concurrent Thinking updates cluster
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Concurrent Thinking updates cluster

UK-based Concurrent Thinking announced this week the release of the latest version of their cluster appliances. From the release …these bring unprecedented simplicity...

Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper
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Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper

Cray announced its financial results for both Q4 and its fiscal year ended December 31. For 2008, Cray reported revenue of $282.9 million and a net loss of ($31...

Details on Intel
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Details on Intel

Pointer from Multicoreinfo.com to an article at Ars Technica providing a peek at some of the details of Intel’s forthcoming 8-core chip At an ISSCC session Monday...

SGI strikes
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SGI strikes

SGI doesn’t coordinate with me, of course, but I can’t help but consider the timing of their most recent press release in the context of the RNA Networks announcement...

DARPA
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DARPA

The CRA Policy Blog posts news that Anthony Tether, head of DARPA during the second President Bush’s administration, is resigning on the 20th of this month. He...

HPCwire on SGI
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HPCwire on SGI

Have you found yourself asking, “What the heck is non-GAAP and why does SGI report it?” Ask no more, friends. Instead, click on over to HPCwire and read the article...

HPC seminar in
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HPC seminar in

The HPC Watercooler points to a perfect opportunity to redeem those Sky Miles you’ve been hoarding: head north for HPC in Vancouver Our friends at HPCVL are sponsoring...

Itanium upgrade
From insideHPC

Itanium upgrade

From Computerworld earlier this month Intel Corp. on Tuesday said it has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor...

32nm on track at
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32nm on track at

Multicoreinfo.com points us to this story at the EE Times Despite recent layoffs and fab closings, Intel Corp. remains on track to deliver its first 32nm processors...

The Green Grid launches new datacenter
From insideHPC

The Green Grid launches new datacenter

Last week The Green Grid announced that it is

HiPC coming to
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HiPC coming to

From HPCwire The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) will be held in Cochin, India, during Dec. 16-19, 2009. It...

Senate: science and computing doing ok so
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Senate: science and computing doing ok so

Peter Harsha at the excellent Policy Blog of the CRA reports on some of the twists on the way to the US Senate’s version of the stimulus bill becoming law. $1.2B...
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