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If you live in the New York City Metropolitan area, you may be interested in attending the first NYCA-HUG, which is short for the New York City Area HPC Users Group. We will be kicking off our first meeting on Thursday November 1 (Updated) Le Figaro Cafe in Greenwich Village at 7PM. You can find more information here.

And while you are clicking around, check out Today's HPC Clusters. Cluster content, White papers, Webinars, and more, all good stuff. And while you are at there, sign up for the newsletter and you get to read my weekly HPC rants. A free opinion, what a bargain.

From the "I'll take eight department"

The Linux cluster world is moving towards InfiniBand for many reasons: bandwidth, latency, message rate, N/2, price/performance, and other factors that affect performance and price. But usually it's focused on larger systems, many times greater 64 nodes up to multiple thousand nodes. At that same time the reasons for moving to InfiniBand are still valid for smaller clusters, particularly performance, but the economics are not. Basically InfiniBand is just too expensive for smaller systems and usually does not make sense from a price/performance perspective. But that has just changed...

On Wednesday, August 21, I will be the guest on the Linux Link Tech Show. The Linux Tech show is the oldest continually running Linux show on the planet! And, they happen to be in the somewhat soggy Lehigh Valley where I live as well (Eastern Pennsylvania). Each show is about an hour and a half long and you can catch it every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. See the Linux Link Tech Show site for details.

The Linux Tech show was started in September 2003 by the founders of the Lehigh Valley Linux User Group. Their goal is to provide a weekly live webcasted radio style show about GNU/Linux and Technology. So forget about those summer re-runs, and catch some lively discussion about world domination though HPC Linux clusters.

A new cluster is taking shape at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. The system will be housed in the New Holland Computing Center at the Peter Kiewit Institute and will employ 1151 Dell quad-core (Barcelona) AMD Opteron servers (dual socket) for a total of 9,208 cores. This system is by far the largest Dell/AMD cluster to date and it is slated to be the first large scale dual boot system in existence -- Linux and Windows CSS.

There are job opportunities as well, in addition to MPI coders, they are searching for a Director of Research & Development, Advanced Computing Systems. Contact Jim Skirvin, Executive Director Holland Computing Center for more information -- jim.skirvin (you what to put here) pki.nebraska.edu

The industry leading PathScale Compiler has found a new home at SiCortex. For those of you who don't know, SiCortex has engineered a Linux supercomputing cluster from the silicon up -- interesting technology. PathScale’s compiler team, along with certain intellectual property and business agreements, will join SiCortex. Fred Chow, who heads up the PathScale team at QLogic, will join SiCortex as director of compiler engineering.

The past acquisition of PathScale by QLogic left some questions as to the future of the PathScale compiler as QLogic was clearly interested in the InfiniPath adapter. While the SiCortex machine is based on the MIPS64 architecture (as was the original PathScale compiler) and uses the MIPS64 PathScale compiler, the X86_64 support will continue. You can relax, the PathScale Compiler has found a good home in the HPC world. The full press release (pdf) is here.

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