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Posted in HPC, Microchips on Jun 6th, 2010
Intel has unveiled a new multicore processor based on technology from Larrabee, the advanced graphics chip that was placed on hold late last year.
The new chip is codenamed Knights Corner and is based on Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. The processor is set scale to more than 50 processing cores.
Intel described the MIC architecture [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Jun 3rd, 2010
GigaSpaces have added Memcached protocol support in version 7.1 of GigaSpaces XAP. memcached is a popular caching protocol and server. The integration provided allows to use GigaSpaces as a memcached server (talking the memcached protocol) enhancing the memcached to provide high availability, write behind, and other features that are provided by GigaSpaces XAP.
Further details can [...]
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Dec 8th, 2009
It seems that Apple has pulled the project to implement the ZFS file system over the mac, apparently due to licensing issues (no surprise there, now that Sun is in the hands of Oracle).
Mac’s OX extended format is synonymous with HFS+. HFS+ used B-Trees to store volume metadata and has being around since Mac OS 8.1 so [...]
Posted in HPC, Microchips, Programming on Nov 14th, 2009
Interesting Post from Perils of Parallel which outlines Tim Sweeney, found of Epic Games, keynote at High Performance Graphics 2009 in which, in one of the slides (79), he compares complexity and cost of development. Bottom line according to Tim is:
Lessons learned: Today’s hardware is too hard!
If it costs X (time, money, pain) to develop [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on Oct 30th, 2009
With Virtualisation becoming intertwined with cloud computing it is worth taking a step back and looking once again what virtualisation is, and is not. Virtualisation and Emulation are often compared, but there are a set of important differences. Emulation provides the functionality of a target processor completely in software. The main advantage being that you can emulate [...]
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Oct 9th, 2009
Video of a pre-release Nehalem-EX Processor shows its capabilities running an NYSE trading simulation.
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Microchips, Programming on Sep 19th, 2009
Apple’s Grand Central a new set of technologies released with Snow Leopard designed to make parallelisation and concurrency simpler for programmers. Apple has extended Objective-C which now includes support for closures and makes it easier to implement control structures that support concurrency. In essence Grand Central makes it easier to write parallelisable software.
Similarily Microsoft recently [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 15th, 2009
It wasn’t unexpected that someone would throw DataSynapse a lifeline, it had been on the ropes for a while. I am just annoyed that I missed it as was on holiday when it happened. I apologise then if my comment seems rather late.
On the 24th August, they day I left for a nice long vacation, [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 14th, 2009
An excerpt from the our book, on Cloud Computing Best Practices, is currently featured on the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Journal site.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 12th, 2009
The definative guide is for programmers and administrators demonstrating how Hadoop allows you to analyze large data sets, build reliable, scalable, distributed systems, and learn how to setup Hadoop clusters. In this book White includes case studies and problems with illustrations of specific solutions in Haoop which is always welcome.
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