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Wozniak joins
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Wozniak joins

A reader (hi, Paul!) pointed us to this article in the NY Times about where the Woz is hanging his hat these days Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could...

Who will fardels
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Who will fardels

Chris Willard writes at HPCwire’s blog about the aging of HPC A long-standing concern in HPC is the graying of the industry. That is, new people are not coming...

SGI announces Q2, posts
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SGI announces Q2, posts

SGI announced its fiscal results today for the quarter ending December 26, 2008. Revenue was down, and losses were up compare to the preceding quarter Revenue for...

GPU-HMMER
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GPU-HMMER

My pal Joe at Scalable Informatics (during the day, and scalability.org during the late nights he keeps) sent me an email with news of an NVIDIA CUDA extension...

Book review: Principles of Parallel
From insideHPC

Book review: Principles of Parallel

In case you don’t read the sidebar (you really should, you know), I’ve written a review of Calvin Lin and Larry Snyder’s relatively new book, “Principles of Parallel...

Folding for
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Folding for

My pals at NVIDIA sent me an email today letting me know about a special way this month that you can take part in the fight against cancer. Scott Sherman’s 13 year...

SiCortex matriculates at
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SiCortex matriculates at

(No, I used it right. I looked it up.) Today HPC vendor SiCortex announced that they’ve sent their boy to college, old world style The SiCortex system at the University...

Intel Parallel Studio
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Intel Parallel Studio

Intel’s Parallel Studio, about which I wrote in this article for HPCwire, is now available in beta. From Intel Intel Parallel Studio, a suite of development tools...

Cloud computing in plain
From insideHPC

Cloud computing in plain

Rich at Sun’s HPC Watercooler went movie diving at YouTube, and came back with a gem. “Cloud computing in plain english” does a good job explaining cloud computing...

Sun HPC development tools
From insideHPC

Sun HPC development tools

Our buddies at Sun’s HPC Watercooler have posted info on a new webinar from Sun HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio and HPC Clustertools In this webinar, you...

Startup launches virtualized shared memory
From insideHPC

Startup launches virtualized shared memory

Earlier this week startup RNA Networks announced that it has launched a software platform that aggregates memory among servers and makes it available to all the...

Supercomputing in the US Senate stimulus
From insideHPC

Supercomputing in the US Senate stimulus

A PAC called the Senate Conservatives Fund, who according to their website are “dedicated to electing true conservatives to the United States Senate,” is highlighting...

Getting more from your power dollar in the
From insideHPC

Getting more from your power dollar in the

Article in EE Times last week on the inefficiencies of power delivery in datacenters these days, particularly supercomputing data centers. The problem? Conversions...

Intel launches ScienceSim virtual world for education and visualization, ties in with
From insideHPC

Intel launches ScienceSim virtual world for education and visualization, ties in with

In a post on Intel’s Research blog late last week, John Hengeveld announced an open invitation for ScienceSim Today we are publically [sic] inviting others to come...

Webinar on using Jacket and GPUs to speed up
From insideHPC

Webinar on using Jacket and GPUs to speed up

NVIDIA is hosting a Tesla GPU Computing Webinar on Thursday, February 5 at 2:00pm EST. Melissa sent me an email with the details, which I paste in below for your...

Intel to discuss eight core Xeon at
From insideHPC

Intel to discuss eight core Xeon at

Multicoreinfo.com points us to the folks at Macworld, who did a little digging in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference program, and finds news thatIntel...

Cooling CPUs with
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Cooling CPUs with

Multicoreinfo.com points us to a Computerworld piece on nano-fridges for cooling your chips With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100-degree...

Sun CEO says Rock on track for this
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Sun CEO says Rock on track for this

Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register reports this week on news that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is (publicly) confident that the company’s new Rock processor will...

QLogic announces Q3, posts
From insideHPC

QLogic announces Q3, posts

And speaking of vendors and quarterly announcements, QLogic announced this week. Highlights from their release Third Quarter Highlights Net revenue increased 4...

Mellanox announces Q4 and FY2008, posts
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Mellanox announces Q4 and FY2008, posts

InfiniBand vendor Mellanox announced its Q4 and 2008 annual results this week. Their press release provides a handy list so that yours truly doesn’t have to do...
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