Xsigo makes virtual network connectivity systems. Basically letting you build a virtual network, in a software stack, so you can avoid spending so much money on a fixed (and inflexible) network stack. Its a neat concept, but its utility is focused elsewhere than HPC. Even though they talk storage, I’d argue its a fairly expensive […]
with a good article on a new license formulated for genomic code being distributed by a university research center. Glad to see the blog back up! Or rebooted … and +10 on your article. It (that license) is the wrong direction IMO. Goes against what publicly funded scientific code should be distributed as (IMO). Viewed […]
I’ve heard OCZ being looked at by Seagate and others. That would make sense. Honestly I think my expectations are not that companies have fire sales going on … but that areas where some sort of force multiplication is possible … these companies will be snapped up to help grow larger companies. Acquirers are after […]
Whats to become of Chroma (from Whamcloud)? I know its early, and I am sure that there won’t be answers just yet. Intel acquired Cilk, and its now available (and being integrated into gcc!) Intel acquired many others, and their bits are available. I’d expect Chroma to be made into an offering from Intel, along […]
This one took me a while to figure out. I had to start probing why a system would crash the MD stack shortly after booting, but not in single user mode. So I started delving into the RAID. And found that the folks who set this unit up had a RAID0 with 0.90 metadata on […]
I had forgotten that some combinations of grub + file system could be rendered unbootable without lots of additional help. Grub is annoying. This is Grub legacy. Grub current tries to fix the mess, but fails as it is overly complex. And it appears to omit PXE and network boot options. Well iPXE helps us […]
We are often hired to work on existing systems, to see if we can help make them faster and better. I am working on such a project now, but this post is not about this project. I’ve noticed a tendency in the market to shoehorn a set of designs for storage/computing systems into areas they […]
Sleep is the great rejuvinator. When you get good sleep, you feel generally much better when you wake up. Your body does repair functions, your brain works out (some issues). And occasionally you dream. Going without sleep ages people, makes them less productive as they are more tired during the day. It limits the repair […]
This past week saw the president of the US in another major screw up … one he doesn’t quite understand why its a screw up … and many of his supporters don’t quite seem to get it either. The responses to the screw up have been coming fast and furious. This has become a major […]
HPC is a small fraction of the total computing market. The market in general experience forces from the state of the economy … in growing economic times, generally large portions of the computing market are refreshing and updating gear. Conversely, when we are treading water, or contracting as an economy, word from on high in […]