by agleites | Oct 27, 2010 | High Performance Computing
After almost a year-long run, the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has relinquished its title as the world’s fastest computer. This honor now belongs to the Tianhe-1A supercomputer located in the National Supercomputing Center...
by agleites | Oct 24, 2010 | Storage
OpenSFS (Open Scalable File Systems, Inc.), a non-profit corporation, has recently been formed to continue development of the Lustre file system alongside Oracle, which owns and maintains the Lustre code even though it is an open-source technology. Lustre has been and...
by agleites | Oct 19, 2010 | Networking, Storage
Last week, LSI announced their release of “the industry’s first 6Gb/s SAS switch”. The switch offers unique opportunities for cluster managers to improve the architecture of their storage systems. The value of the SAS switch is its function of...
by agleites | Oct 12, 2010 | High Performance Computing
This week, a team from our company visited a large laboratory located in the Chicago area. IT representatives there told us how a major focus for them has been migrating their computing resources from a model of individual workgroups using separate clusters to a...
by agleites | Oct 7, 2010 | High Performance Computing
HPC in the Cloud, a very insightful and well-written blog, published an article titled “HPC 360 Highlights Manufacturing’s Missing Middle”. There, author Nicole Hemsoth describes how a sector of the U.S. economy is losing competitiveness because...
