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SRC Computers Launches Next-Generation Reconfigurable Computing System
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Tuesday August 23 2005 @ 01:03PM EDT views: 82

SRC Computers, Inc., a
leader in reconfigurable computing systems, today announced the availability
of its SRC-7 system featuring the first reconfigurable processor with IEEE
compliant floating point blocks and accompanying high bandwidth
interconnect. The lack of dedicated low latency floating point capability
with enough memory bandwidth to prevent stalling has historically been
viewed as the last technical barrier to widespread adoption of general
purpose reconfigurable computing.
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Cluster Distributions
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Monday August 22 2005 @ 08:46PM EDT views: 131

ClusterMonkey.net: A look at the history and state of some cluster distributions
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Letter to the Editor: Expanding on Fran
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Monday August 22 2005 @ 08:32PM EDT views: 57

HPCwire: A reader writes in to expand upon Fran Berman's recent piece in HPCwire calling for more collaboration to advance research endeavors.
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Foundry Networks and Myricom Form Alliance to Drive 10-Gigabit Ethernet Adoption in HPC
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Monday August 22 2005 @ 07:44PM EDT views: 97

Foundry Networks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY), a performance and total solutions
leader for end-to-end switching and routing, has formed an alliance with
Myricom(R), Inc., a global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC), to
jointly develop and deliver 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions within Foundry's HPC
Ethernet Alliance Program. Foundry's HPC Ethernet Alliance Program is designed
to accelerate deployment of high-performance Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit
Ethernet solutions. Foundry will work closely with Myricom to deliver
standards-based, high-performance, 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions to both the
HPC community and advanced enterprise data centers.
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ShaoLin Microsystems & Providence Announce the Distribution Partnership Agreement
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Sunday August 21 2005 @ 11:12PM EDT views: 74

ShaoLin Microsystems, today announced that it has signed a distribution partnership agreement with Providence Solutions. Providence is the first certified distributor of ShaoLin InfiniCluster, high availability cluster software for Linux, in Singapore and it will market and distribute ShaoLin InfiniCluster to partners and customers who need continuous operation and simplified consolidation of their Linux servers in South-East Asia.
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Orion decouples 30 per cent of staff
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Friday August 19 2005 @ 10:15AM EDT views: 98

The Register: Orion Multisystems - the dominant player in the desktop cluster market - has gone through its first major round of layoffs, as the company tries to tighten its bottom line.
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Altair's PBS Professional(TM) Helps NASA Track Global Climate Patterns
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Friday August 19 2005 @ 10:14AM EDT views: 73

Altair Engineering, Inc., a global
leader in product design consulting, engineering software and high-performance
computing technology, today announced that Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) will
integrate Altair's PBS Professional(TM) on 1,024 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2
processors for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Goddard Space Flight Center. One of the first projects for NASA Goddard's
enhanced SGI resources is an initiative to re-analyze climate change patterns
over the past 30 years to predict future weather trends, climate change,
carbon dioxide levels and ocean temperatures.
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CorEdge Networks Demonstrates Low-Latency Ethernet Switches
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Thursday August 18 2005 @ 01:34PM EDT views: 120

CorEdge Networks, Inc., a leader and innovator in ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) and MicroTCA switching equipment, will showcase two low-latency non-blocking Ethernet switches with demonstrated performance of under 3.5 microsecond delay at the 13th annual IEEE Symposium on high performance interconnects. The Hot Interconnects show will take place on August 17~19, 2005 at the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center at Stanford University in California.
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ShaoLin Microsystems Announces Next Generation Disaster Recovery Solution for Linux
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Thursday August 18 2005 @ 03:48AM EDT views: 91

ShaoLin Microsystems, a leading provider of enterprise Linux utility computing, announced a new release of a robust yet affordable disaster recovery solution for Linux - ShaoLin InfiniCluster and ShaoLin Volume Replicator. Designed to maximize application availability and data integrity for ensuring business continuity, ShaoLin InfiniCluster and ShaoLin Volume Replicator together provide the most scalable and enterprise-class fault-tolerant solution with unique features.
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Panasas Extends Dominance in University Clusters, LSU Joins List
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Wednesday August 17 2005 @ 11:45AM EDT views: 95

Panasas, Inc. today announced that Louisiana State University has joined an ever-growing list of the nation's top institutions of higher education leveraging the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster and high-performance Linux clusters to conduct important scientific research.
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Verari Systems Launches 4-way Intel-based Server Platform
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Wednesday August 17 2005 @ 08:55AM EDT views: 71

Verari Systems, the premier developer of powerful, platform-independent blade server and rack-optimized systems, announced today the introduction of the RM4205. The RM4205 rackmount server is a powerful system based on the Intel Server Platforms SR4850HW4 and/or SR6850HW4. The addition of the RM4205 into Verari Systems' robust product offering extends its commitment to the Intel(R) Enterprise Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel ESAA).
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Coraid's EtherDrive Storage Appliance Wins LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Storage
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Tuesday August 16 2005 @ 12:10PM EDT views: 93

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--Aug. 16, 2005--Coraid was honored at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week as the winner of the Product Excellence Award for Best Data Backup or Storage Solution. Coraid's SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage Appliance was selected as an innovative Storage Area Networking technology that offers unique value for the open source community
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NERSC Launches Linux Networx Supercomputer into Production
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Tuesday August 16 2005 @ 08:45AM EDT views: 96

Linux Networx announced today that the DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has deployed a new Linux cluster supercomputer. The 722-processor system will be used by thousands of researchers and scientists across the nation. The cluster system from Linux Networx is also able to achieve a 99% uptime - an impressive milestone for such a cutting-edge system.
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Scyld Software's Becker on Linux, Clustering, Grid
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Tuesday August 16 2005 @ 08:43AM EDT views: 68

LinuxWorld.au: More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small. These were some of the conclusions and predictions of Don Becker, cofounder of the Beowulf clustering project and a significant contributor to the Linux kernel, as he attended the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco last week.
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Microway Delivers FasTree
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Thursday August 11 2005 @ 12:53PM EDT views: 126

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Microway is now shipping its FasTree™ family of InfiniBand switches. The initial FasTree offering is a 36-port DDR switch based on Mellanox's 24-port InfiniScale III 4X component. Up to this point, all InfiniBand links ran at 2.5 GHz. The new DDR switch announced today uses copper links running at twice this speed, and is the first offering to the HPC community of an InfiniBand switch that uses DDR links.
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