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  1. You may find this interesting by deadline · · Score: 1 · on Linux Clustering Hardware?

    Take a look at The Value Cluster Project.

  2. funny thing by dbrower · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Start-up Granted Injunction Against Microsoft
    is that the TOE concept seemed to have been invented a long time ago. The "Excelan" tcp/ip ethernet from around 1984 comes to mind. See for example, this, which says,
    what about TOE?
    TCP offload is an old answer,
    - 1983 : Excelan i186-based "smart adapter"
    - 1986 : CMC 68020
    - Early 1990's : SGI
    - Late 1990's : Adaptec, Alacritec ...
    Hey, there they are! Wonder what their "innovation" was that made it a better idea than the first few incarnations?

    -dB

  3. YAWNS: Yet Another Workplace Network Supercomputer by deadline · · Score: 1 · on Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters

    I got so tired of responding to these "Supercomputer in your office" articles, I put up a web page Cluster Urban Legends to help separate the fact from fiction.

  4. This is FUD by deadline · · Score: -1 · on Cray CTO Says Cray Computers Are Great

    I just finished writing a rant about this. Almost pure FUD

  5. Re:WWDC Power by deadline · · Score: 2, Informative · on Top 500 Supercomputer List Released

    Better read this first there cowboy. It is not as easy as you think.

  6. I was there by deadline · · Score: 5, Informative · on IBM Plans Collaboration On Power Architecture
    I attended the event. It is pretty big news. There was a lot of interesting presentations and it is really an astounding direction for IBM. As one person from IBM put it,

    IBM has seen how well the Open Source/Community model has worked for Linux. Now they believe that it will benefit the deployment of POWER derived technology.

    The details are a little sketchy at this point, but Wladawsky-Berger basically said this is of the same magnitude as the decision to embrace Linux.

    I think I heard the word "community" in almost every other sentence. I truly believe IBM "gets it" and is moving forward in bold direction. The people I talked to afterward were credible and excited.

    There will be a longer story on ClusterWorld tomorrow. (sign up for three free issues of the magazine as well)

    I saw the small "Blue Gene" system. Very cool both performance wise and thermally (32 CPUs in a table top box). I also saw the new Power blade server. Nice.

  7. More Cluster Information by deadline · · Score: 1 · on HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf
    Shameless Plug:

    There is now a magazine and a news website dedicated to HPC/Beowulf cluster computing. You may recognize the webpage format.

    We are still running our free three month trial issue offer as well.

  8. More Cluster Information by deadline · · Score: 1 · on HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf
    Shameless Plug:

    There is now a magazine and a news website dedicated to HPC/Beowulf cluster computing. You may recognize the webpage format.

    We are still running our free three month trial issue offer as well.

  9. Re:More about beowulf? by deadline · · Score: 1 · on HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf

    You may also find ClusterWorld web-site and magazine useful.

  10. Hardly a Supercomputer: Cluster computing 101 by deadline · · Score: 5, Informative · on Xgrid Clustering Software and Demo
    There are only certain problems that work well on LAN clusters. Those that have a lot of independent jobs (like BLAST) and those that require a small amount of communication like rendering.

    Read ClusterWorld and you can figure this out yourself.