TheBlogGuideTo HPC,Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing

Star P is a leading parallel compute platform, essentially allowing automated parallelisation of Matlab and Python code, making it simple for users of these technologies to develop serial models and then run them much faster with minimal changes. It has simple client side API and deployed standard libraries to the back end using NumPy, SciPy [...]

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There is a nice video from the guys at Facebook no how they tweaked and added to Facebook to enable this hugely popular site to scale which you can access here.
A very nice overview and introduction to MemCached here with examples in different languages for the programmer.
A guide with code about using Memcached as singleton with [...]

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IBM is piloting a “Tools as a Service” program that is making software development tools available in its hosted cloud. Initially the program is to be offered to a selection of university faculty and students.

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Its about time someone did this!! Tibco have finally released their RendezVous hardware appliance.  This incoporates the RV messaging middleware in hardware (a combination of ASIC for network I/O and FPGA’s for processing), giving the following impressive headline items:

10 million messages per second per single Appliance
message latency in sub-100 microseconds 3X improvement in latency predictability
15 [...]

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Computer technology review recently published a list of what it considers to the the top 5 HPC trends:

HPC is becoming more mainstream
Green IT initiatives are becoming real
Cloud/SaaS/IaaS is becoming concrete
Traditional Datacentres are loosing favour
Web 2.0 is driving a new era for storage

I don’t disagree that these are top trends,  and I see the decline as [...]

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There is a recent paper outlining how to take advantage of multi-core in a SAS environment- excerpt from paper and link below:
The computer industry has been rapidly transitioning from CPUs (chips) with a single processing core to CPUs  with dual-, quad- and multi-core configurations.  This has changed traditional thinking of SMP servers and has  propagated [...]

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Welcome to our supporting blog for our SavvyGuideTo book. Jim and Adam will add industry news and updates to the book here.

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