Start out from a known state … my $dryrun = false; my $debug = false; my $sanity = false; Heh … Maybe I should create a function with a probability distribution (a fuzzy function) named “is_in_doubt()” so I can write my $sanity = &is_in_doubt(); (and yes, this is Perl … I just can’t bring myself […]

They are getting backlog serviced as fast as they can. Looks like they are clearing it out pretty quickly. This is good. Customers had been asking us about the reason for the delay. We speculated numerous possibilities. Most (all?) of them (my speculations) were wrong. That is good as well. I am thinking now that […]

Released this morning Automated High Performance Computing Solutions Provide Alternative to Shared Virtual Private Server Clouds FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(Business Wire)– NewServers Inc., the leading provider of Hardware as a Service (HaaS) dedicated cloud servers, today announced a strategic partnership with high performance computing (HPC) provider Scalable Informatics that will provide cloud storage solutions capable of […]

All for the day job: First, our help system is now online. This allows us to provide an externally visible issue tracking and project management/tracking site for customers. Not just for our hardware. Scalable Informatics has been helping people support other peoples hardware for quite a while. Some of our biggest/best customers have not bought […]

This is one of several memes customers are noting to us. They are worried, what happens if vendor X goes away, can I still get support/fixes/replacement parts for my gear? In the case of some of our competitors, the answer is a resounding and unqualified NO. In our case, our high performance JackRabbit systems, our […]

I was looking up one of my favorite (silly) phrases after a long hard day getting mvsas to work correctly on a Pegasus workstation running Fedora. I won’t let this devolve into a Fedora bashing session, though Fedora does need it. That is what triggered this look though. I kept slogging at a number of […]

I’ve been talking about the woes of the area we live and work in. Canton is right outside Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan. Its a nice place for many reasons. But a tech haven? No. For a long time, we had lots of commercial supercomputing in this area. It was a good place to be […]

I’ve noticed this, that when people talk about “best practices” in HPC, usually there is … well … a slant to their analysis. Put another way … can you get real unbiased information on “best practices” from a biased partisan, who might not have been exposed to alternative methods, and may have a financial interest […]

Coverage from ISC09 in Hamburg has GPFS (from IBM) doing well, and Lustre being … well … Lustre. From InsideHPC’s coverage in the sidebar … The latest from the ISC’09 Twitter stream. Follow insideHPC. * LSI: “Lustre does not handle very well things going bad!” Thank you Terascale for that very insightful Session! #ISC09 * […]