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Why gov labs presenting HPC tech ≠ officials wolfing overpriced sushi

HPC blog US gov travel caps: Agency bods may have to skip supercomputing shows
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Cray to plug Kepler GPUs into future Cascade supers

That didn't take a Tesla to figure out
SGI Ice Cube Dual Row Container

Red ink deeper at SGI as sales shrink

Low margin deal hangover

Opinion

Keep your Playboy mansion, Supermicro is my nerd vice palace

Sysadmin blog With several clients facing refresh cycles, I've decided to poke my nose back into the tier-2 space to see what’s going on.
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Why gov labs presenting HPC tech ≠ officials wolfing overpriced sushi

HPC blog Our buddy Rich Brueckner over at insideHPC broke some news this week when he published a story about new conference and travel spending restrictions that might radically scale back US government agency participation in HPC industry events like the upcoming SC12 conference in Salt Lake City this November.

Supercomputer flash kings: TLC needs, er, TLC

ISC12 Here at Hamburg's supercomputer fest, three merchants of flash were plying their wares. What did they think about the chances of 3-layer cell (TLC) NAND, the stuff that's cheaper than MLC but slower and with a drastically shorter working life? Cue shaking of heads and whole stack engagement.

News

ISC 2012: China's 'Pop Idols' seek Klusterkamph glory

ISC 2012 Intra-China winners look for win in Germany

China's NUDT students hope GPUs will grind down rivals

ISC 2012 GPU-heavy system surprised punters back in Seattle

ISC cluster kids KIT plan to drive off with vendor swag

ISC 2012 ... and perhaps a trophy too

T-shirt race stragglers aim for student cluster compo crown

ISC 2012 Colorado Buffaloes DID breeze through the supercomputing bits

T-Platforms to roll out itsy-bitsy HPC cluster

A cute li'l Windows HPC Server on casters

Sequoia: Can anyone learn to wield this mighty HPC weapon?

Podcast Here at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, I sat in on a podcast with Rich Brueckner of insideHPC and Dr Jack Dongarra, co-founder of the Top500 list. We talked about the 20-year evolution of the list and, of course, Sequoia, the BlueGene/Q system that topped the June 2012 rankings.

Supercomputer flash kings: TLC needs, er, TLC

ISC12 Here at Hamburg's supercomputer fest, three merchants of flash were plying their wares. What did they think about the chances of 3-layer cell (TLC) NAND, the stuff that's cheaper than MLC but slower and with a drastically shorter working life? Cue shaking of heads and whole stack engagement.

Samsung offers cool green RAM for the same cold hard greenbacks

ISC12 Samsung is promoting its green memory here at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, saying its 20nm-class DRAM uses less electricity than 50nm-class RAM and runs cooler too. Oh, and it costs the same.

Spotlight

Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
US TSA
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
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Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Oracle Sparc T4-4 server
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
OCZ VeloDrive
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
Actian Vectorwise TPC-H
Comment Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches