Author Archives: Guest Blogger
Energy Efficiency Globally Must Start Locally
New York State is currently facing some difficult challenges including rising energy prices, an aging electricity delivery infrastructure, an imbalanced electricity generation portfolio and climate change. According to a 2007 EPA study conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and sponsored … Continue reading
The Virtual Desktop Revolution Is Here…for Everyone…
…And the timing couldn’t be better. Customers are looking for simpler ways to manage desktops, just as Windows 7 begins to drive another desktop refresh cycle. And, in these economic times, everyone’s looking to increase flexibility and efficiency. This … Continue reading
Let's Talk About the Weather
When you come from Austin, TX, talking about the weather can take up a significant portion of one’s summer. Consider this year’s intense drought and more than sixty days of 100+ degree heat. You can bet that had folks in … Continue reading
A Safe Bet
It’s already August and I’ve been giving some thought to a last quick summer get-away. Been to Las Vegas recently? It’s an astoundingly popular destination – more than 37 million visitors last year! And most of them began and ended … Continue reading
OpenCL Changes the Game
Up until now, GPGPU has been a research technology for early adopters – a new, promising experimental capability for scientists, engineers, financial professionals, and others running compute-intensive applications. Two elements have kept GPGPU largely in the ivory tower: first, the … Continue reading
A New Window on Client Virtualization
Congratulations to Microsoft as Windows 7 has reached an important milestone with its “release to manufacturing” (RTM), which means it is on its way to becoming pre-loaded on new hardware or a box on a retail shelf. In addition to a … Continue reading
Is a Cloud a Cluster or is a Cluster a Cloud?
With the recent publication of several articles about using cloud computing concepts for High Performance Computing applications (here and here), I’ve been wondering about the applications for high-performance, low-power processors. There’s been quite a bit written here already about cloud … Continue reading
Efficiency Computing with Dell PowerEdge Servers Powered by AMD Opteron™ processors
The introduction of the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processors (code named “Istanbul”) is big step forward for the IT industry. Dell works closely with AMD to address our customers’ needs with a full line-up of products to help simplify and lower … Continue reading
A Focus on the Economics of Data Centers
Sun’s focus on Open Network Systems – from silicon and servers, to storage, networking, and software – continues to deliver unprecedented speed, simplicity, and savings to our customers. As part of our Open Network Systems strategy, we plan to add … Continue reading
Breaking New Ground: The Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor
Cray has a long and distinguished history of providing high performance computing technologies that allow our customers to push the frontiers of science and engineering. Modern Cray systems do this by providing the world’s most scalable, general purpose supercomputing system … Continue reading
