This will be short. Mostly a hat tip to Doug Eadline who in a very recent article talks about something we have been talking about privately for a while. Read the article, and afterwords, ponder a point he was discussing: I believe so. Doug cautions people to not read into his words too much. This said, we are building very muscular desktops sporting 24 cores, 256 GB ram, 1+ GB/s IO channels, and accelerators of several flavors.

[Warning] This is old news that got reposted as new. From LinuxHPC.org (Ken Farmer’s excellent site) I saw this … I wonder if this impacts any TeamHPC or M&A; GSA contracts, which are usually quite … explicit … about lawsuit issues and eligibility for opportunities. They might have to go through a proxy if they can’t go direct.

The supreme court has just rescinded its stay of the sale. Understanding that I am a fan and returning customer to Chrysler (for its Jeep products), my biases should be clear … this is very bad news to any senior creditor out there, dealing with a large troubled debtor, and a group with political patronage. Why would any bank or lending institution possibly grant a loan, if political considerations will outweigh legal considerations?

SEO is an attempt to influence an algorithm for ranking and displaying data entered into search systems. Google and other search engines perform many calculations to try to return “meaningful” results. Well, they use a particular definition of meaningful. One that involves what they considered to be a consensus … if a page has lots of links to it from many other pages, then it must have meaning. This may have been true once.

[updated] see at bottom: Chrysler is an HPC user. I am a Chrysler customer. We have 2 Jeep Grand Cherokees. Words like “cold dead fingers” come to mind when I think about giving them up. Well, ok .. on the way in to the lab this morning, my interior roof is starting to leak … 13 year old Jeep. Chrysler’s bankruptcy was engineered. Not well engineered, just engineered. In the process of setting it up, you saw political patronage completely derail legal rights, specifically senior versus junior creditors.

I did email Matt Rousch to let him know what we are up to. Hopefully he will come by when we are testing the 96TB unit we sold :) Linky is here.

I’ve been talking about data motion (moving data between place “a” and “b”) as a problem for a long time now. You can summarize it easily in a very simple equation, and use that to explain what is going wrong, and estimate how much we are going to suffer going forward. In a nutshell, data motion is measurable in the time it takes to copy a chunk of data between ‘places’.

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Waaaa hooooo!!!! This is also our first big Nehalem JackRabbit sale. For those who don’t know, JackRabbit is a cost effective, very fast, very powerful storage and integrated processing system. Units go from 2 to 5 rack units, with capacities from 9TB through 96TB, and cost starting well under $1/GB. Raw performance, performance density, and storage density make this an ideal component of a cluster storage or cloud storage system. This unit in particular is going to a cloud computing provider.