Intersect360 Research Hires Michael Feldman as Senior Analyst

Published on Monday, 11 February 2013 16:31

Written by Douglas Eadline

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From the notable news department

Some recent news that arrived in my in box. Intersect360 Research, a leading market intelligence, research, and consulting advisory practice for the High Performance Computing industry, announced today that it has hired Michael Feldman, a 35-year computer industry veteran, to augment its analyst team.

Feldman, recognized as an expert in the HPC industry worldwide, is well-known as the former managing editor of HPCwire, where he spent eight years as one of the foremost predictors of HPC trends. Feldman was also the co-host, along with Intersect360 Research CEO Addison Snell, of the insightful and popular weekly HPCwire Soundbite podcast.

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Aeon EclipseSL Wins "Best HPC Storage Product or Technology" at SC2012

Published on Wednesday, 12 December 2012 11:14

Written by Douglas Eadline

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Company reshaping Lustre storage design with their next generation Lustre Storage Appliance.

Aeon Computing has been awarded the 2012 HPCwire "Best HPC Storage Product or Technology" for their EclipseSL Lustre appliance that is the foundation of the 4 PetaByte Data Oasis storage system at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC). The next generation system will push the Lustre storage performance even further.

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Numascale Delivers Plug and Play SMP at SC12

Published on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 12:28

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Delivering big SMP performance at a cluster price

This year at SC12 Numascale, maker of low cost plug-and-play high performance shared memory systems, was showing performance numbers and some happy clients. For those that may not know, Numascale produces the NumaConnect adapter that provides plug-and-play connection of standard servers running a single un-patched OS version. Applications have fast access to the aggregate memory of all servers in the system using a hardware controlled ccNuma environment.

NumaConnect facilitates very large shared memory systems built from commodity servers at the price level of high-end clusters. This combination invites a new level of price/capability/performance that has never before been demonstrated using pure hardware. Systems built with NumaConnect run standard operating systems and all x86 applications.

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Julia: HPC BASIC

Published on Friday, 07 December 2012 14:00

Written by Douglas Eadline

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You really should meet Julia

A long time ago, BASIC was "the language" in the PC world. There were other languages of course, but BASIC was well, "basic" and it was the only thing beyond machine code for many early PC enthusiasts. The name was an acronym for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." New users could easily start writing programs after learning a few commands. It was fun and easy. Many scientists and engineers taught themselves BASIC. Of course, many would argue at the time real scientific programs were written in BASIC's big brother FORTRAN, but FORTRAN was a different world in terms of development cycle and hardware. There was this thing called a compiler that had to be run before you could execute your program. BASIC on the other hand seemed to keep track of your code and would just "RUN" whenever you wanted. Of course you might get some errors, but the "edit, run, edit" cycle was rather short and allowed one to easily play with the computer.

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