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Wild New Design: Data Center in A Silo
December 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
The CLUMEQ supercomputing center in Quebec has transformed a 65-foot tall cement silo into a data center. Rings of cabinets within the silo (which previously housed a Van de Graaf particle accelerator) are cooled via an exterior cold air plenum, with a "hot core" in the center of the silo. Read More
Bull Debuts Mobull Container for HPC
November 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
There's a new entry in the market for data center containers from Bull, the French IT conglomerate. The Mobull container is designed to house up to 1,620 servers and support power loads nearing 40kW per rack. Read More
SC09 Wrap: Aurora, Gore, Fusion i/o, Green 500
November 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
A roundup of headlines from last week's SC09 conference, includins items on the Aurora supercomputer, NVIDIa's Fermi GPU, Al Gore's keynote speech, the Green 500 rankings, and federal agencies embracing SSD storage from Fusion-io. Read More
Upgrading A Supercomputer
November 19th, 2009 : Rich Miller
In this video, Al Enger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which holds the number three spot in the new Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Read More
Red Sky: Supercomputing and Efficiency Meet
November 17th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Tne Red Sky supercomputer at Sandia National Labs is in the top 10 supercomputers in the world, but is also notable for its energy efficiency, including a claimed PUE of 1.035. The system usesd rear cooling doors from Sun and Emerson that eliminate the need for server fans. Read More
Roundup: IBM, NTT, SC09 demo, PhoenixNAP
November 17th, 2009 : John Rath
A roundup of industry headlines, including news from IBM, NTT America, OpSource, Juniper Network (JNPR), Infinera, Level 3 (LVLT), PhoenixNAP and AboveNet. Read More
HP Expands HPC ‘Scale-Out’ Offerings
November 17th, 2009 : John Rath
HP this week launched several new products for high performance computing at the SC09 conference, including servers, storage, software and network products. (HPQ) Read More
HP Expands HPC 'Scale-Out' Offerings
November 17th, 2009 : John Rath
HP this week launched several new products for high performance computing at the SC09 conference, including servers, storage, software and network products. (HPQ) Read More
Jaguar Bumps RoadRunner in Top 500
November 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller
there's a change atop the leaderboard in supercomputing's Top 500. After two years as runner-up, the Jaguar supercomputer located at the DOE's Oak Ridge lab has overtaken the RoadRunner system at Los Alamos labs to claim the top spot. Read More