See the press release. Sabalcore (fka Tsunamic Technologies) is a cluster-on-demand vendor, providing high performance computing without the hassle of buying/maintaining your own.

Just thought we’d run some nice little performance tests using io-bm (yeah, I know, I have to release it already). Remember, this is booth 635 if you want us to do this live … Here is a write, from the Pegasus, to the JR4. Over a single 10GbE link. scalable@pegasus:~$ /opt/openmpi133/bin/mpirun -v -np 4 `pwd`/io-bm.exe -n 32 -w -f /data/jr4/nfs/io-bm-test ... Thread=3: time = 32.682s IO bandwidth = 250.655 MB/s Thread=0: time = 32.

So we worked hard with our partners to get a demo going. One that highlighted their software, and our hardware. And we got this going with their kind and patient help. One problem. It goes so fast … its done in about a second … :)

Please do come by, I may have shirts for people attending the talk if they ask good questions at the end (no, “what is your name” or “what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow” doesn’t count). We will be talking about the first installed siCluster storage cluster system, designed to enable scalable performance and capacity. We’ll cover goals, design considerations, implementation issues. And some benchmarks, though we are going to have an interesting caveat in them.

A JackRabbit JR4, and a Pegasus deskside supercomputer are there (booth 635 on the show floor, Intel Partner Pavilion). We ran into a cooling issue though, so I had to pull one of the GPU cards. Working on a few other things to fix. Might have a corrupted zip file for the demo (ugh). Will try to fix now. We are in booth 635 with several other partners of Intel. Come by and say hi!

* On #[sc09](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sc09) show floor booth 635 setting up the Pegasus box. Will ha a nice #[hpc](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23hpc) #[storage](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23storage) and processing machine [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/5744988683) Powered by Twitter Tools

Hopefully it will get there. Had to disassemble the CPU coolers in the Pegasus, and remove the disks from the JackRabbit. Pegasus has a pair of rocking Nehalem W5590 chips, 32 hard disks, 48 GB ram, a Tesla, a GTX260, and a pair of 10GbE ports. The JackRabbit was doing 1.8GB/s reads and 1.3 GB/s writes in tests right before we shipped. It also as a pair of 10GbEs, 72 GB ram, and a pair of W5580 Nehalems.

My Blackberry is dying. And Verizon seems to like to disable useful things, like GPS, Wifi, and all manner of other things. So these nice fancy phones … its hard to make full use of them. I am looking at two options for replacement: iphone and droid. The latter is in a Motorola device, brand new, from Verizon. Verizon is at least getting the clue that disabling features is not a wise move in a competitive environment.

* Does anyone actually delete their pr0n followers? Or do you let them accumulate? Just curious. [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/5641846105) * Machines for #[sc09](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sc09) have been built. With any luck, we'll ship them tomorrow. Then I'll set it up at the booth. May buy a monitor there ... [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/5641868843) * working on #[hpc](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23hpc) #[storage](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23storage) #[cluster](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23cluster) specs document for #[sc09](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sc09) announcement [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/5641897733) Powered by Twitter Tools

News from the EU regulators. They are objecting to the hookup between Sun and Oracle. Whether or not their objections have merit … their focus appears to be a loss of competition to Oracle from the “loss” of an independent MySQL … this is not good for Sun. There are 2 possible outcomes from the EU at the end of the process. They will either accept the acquisition, or disallow it.