by Jeremy May | Aug 5, 2019 | High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, Industries, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
Helping to Understand the Mystery Of Linux System Load Averages. While load averages are a metric that are widely used for monitoring the health of a system. Quite a few organizations use this metric for capacity planing without fully understanding where the limits...
by colinc | Sep 6, 2012 | Financial, ICC News, ICC Solutions, Industries, IT Hardware
In the next few months we will be attending a couple major shows. One in particular is the Futures Industry Association’s annual Expo, held right here in Chicago. This is part of our comprehensive move into the field of computational finance. Over the last few...
by colinc | Aug 21, 2012 | Financial, High Performance Computing, Industries
We’ve all met that person in business who feels that IT isn’t that important. A couple of weeks ago, we saw how a failure in IT could cost millions of dollars and bring an entire company to its knees. In the wake of the near-collapse of Knight Capital...
by agleites | Feb 24, 2011 | ICC News, ICC Solutions, Industries, Storage
International Computer Concepts, with partner LSI, has developed a supercomputing solution for one of the most challenging astronomy projects ever conceived. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is an organization that develops and deploys...
by agleites | Jun 30, 2010 | Graphics Computing, ICC Solutions, Industries
GPUs (graphics processing units) are a favorite topic on this blog. It is an innovative and powerful computing idea with an almost awkward origin: the graphics card, which has in the past been used to perform calculations necessary for visual rendering, is now used in...
by agleites | Jun 21, 2010 | Graphics Computing, ICC Solutions, Industries
Scientific Computing magazine’s latest Q&A article addresses a topic very important to most professionals who own or operate a data center: how to improve performance and save money on energy costs. The magazine asked seven industry leaders in the HPC...