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What Lies Beneath: Setting up underlying HPC tools

by kishi on December 21, 2006

After reading thru the previous blogs on HPC, someone might ask “What are some of the core components of HPC ?”. After all, once you’ve seen the outside of a Maserati or a Pantera DeTomaso, you’re not going to be satisfied just by ogling at it. Even after a test drive, the engineer in you will want to pop the hood and see what’s inside. Taking a similar approach let’s uncover some underlying HPC technologies... more

• Thursday, December 21, 2006
• in: Server Center
• kishi

Thinking about HPC Infrastructure

by kishi on December 01, 2006

I started the first HPC blog (See “previous blog“) with an understanding that HPC is an area where there has been a surge of activity from a development/investment standpoint. So after getting a basic understanding behind the importance of why HPC matters, the next logical step that needed uncovering was “How to think” about HPC Infrastructure and tap into the “wisdom” behind managing it...... more

• Friday, December 01, 2006
• in: Community
• kishi

Overloading 'Clusters'

by Frank Chism on October 20, 2006

I work in the cluster business. I can tell you that all too often I have felt like Alice trying to hold a conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Looking Glass Land. This usually occurs when I’m talking to someone new to cluster computing or someone who comes from a different tread of the industry than I do. My roots are in a thread that used number crunching to mean serious floating point arithmetic done... more

• Friday, October 20, 2006
• in: Community
• Frank Chism

Introducing Frank Chism: High Performance Computing Blogger on Port 25

by MichaelF on October 18, 2006

Today we are pleased to introduce Frank Chism. Frank is a Technology Specialist at Microsoft who has worked in the High Performance Computing space for 41 years. He is joining our team of bloggers and will contribute a monthly blog regarding HPC...... more

• Wednesday, October 18, 2006
• in: Media
• MichaelF

Compute Cluster Server: Sam interviews Ryan Waite to discuss Compute Cluster Server

by MichaelF on August 18, 2006

Sam interviews Ryan Waite, Group Program Manager for HPC, who was recently involved in the development and release of Compute Cluster Server. Ryan and Sam discuss how Open Source influenced CCS through the inclusion of Open Source in the product and contributions back to the community.... more

• Friday, August 18, 2006
• in: Media
• MichaelF