Given the discussions on this and other web sites by biased partisans (myself included), I thought this headline (SMB Linux use on the rise) and article was interesting. Viewed 15034 times by 3224 viewers

We use high level languages to provide an abstraction against the hardware, OS, system services we want to use. The compiler is responsible for this mapping. So when I write a simple loop Viewed 17852 times by 3347 viewers

Interesting. Just like we predicted several years ago. Viewed 20081 times by 3729 viewers

… Whether ’tis nobler in the developers mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous application performance, Or to take arms against a sea of development troubles And by abstraction end them? — “Bill S” on whether or not to use higher level abstractions when programming for performance. Viewed 19619 times by 3592 viewers

The PeakStream news, raising $17M in a B round was wonderful to hear about. I am happy for them, and wish them success. Recently I read that Linux Networx raised money as well. LNXI is also an interesting company. Maybe this is the harbinger of good things to come. Viewed 19348 times by 3589 viewers

The folks over at Peakstream have some interesting ideas. Very similar to what we have been talking about and pitching for the past 4 years. Viewed 18328 times by 3516 viewers

If you are not already reading HPCWire on a regular basis, I do recommend it as one of the “must” weekly aggregation sites. They have an interesting article on the “coming” heterogeneous computing systems. Neat idea, but heterogeneous supercomputing systems are already here. Have been for a while. In massive numbers. Working on specialized HPC […]

Why not ask the Council on Competitiveness. Viewed 17898 times by 3426 viewers

Referencing this article. When we talked to a few VC’s previously about APUs, we were asked to show that there would be demand. Kind of hard to do so in advance of the market, but we made rough estimates. Earlier this year, ClearSpeed took its reference design board and started selling it. Sure enough people […]

It seems IBM will be building another new NNSA machine. So whats interesting about this, other than IBM getting good press? Well this appears to be part of a growing wave of heterogenous high performance computing systems. Roadrunner appears to be a mix of COTS Opteron hardware, and Cell based blades as Accelerator Processing Units […]