Here is the link. Enjoy. (Hat tip: Andrew at Tuxtone)

Shai Fulthem at ScaleMP just sent me a quick note. Here it is reproduced below. With the recent announcement of SGI’s (NASDAQ:SGIC) acquisition by Rackable Systems (NASDAQ:RACK), ScaleMP is announcing immediate availability of migration package for existing SGI Altix customers. ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation offers up to 4TB and 128 cores shared memory system, and is available from multiple hardware partners. The recent product expansion to support Nehalem processor as well as multi-rail InfiniBand makes vSMP Foundation an excellent replacement for existing SGI customers.

[updated] see bottom: SGI will be acquired by Rackable. This said, read the press release. Specifically the portion that indicates that Yes, this is right (and assuming it is not an April Fools joke), this means SGI file for bankruptcy this morning. They had a looming $5M payment due last Friday to Morgan Stanley. I was searching for information as to whether or not they had made that payment, as I thought that MS might force them into a chapter 7, and sell off their assets.

Please post em if you find em. I suspect it will be a busy news day … First up: Breaking news, IBM buys Linus Torvalds Second: Turnkey Linux abandons Linux, and becomes Turnkey Windows. I’ll update em as I find em.

Here in Detroit, we have the big 3 … Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Well, maybe no longer. This morning the government passed judgment on this industry, which had been requesting capital to survive, as the credit markets, despite protestations to the contrary from various sources, is still frozen … and they (and all other businesses) need capital (and credit) to survive. The government has said (basically) … its Chapter 11 (or 7) for you.

I saw a link to this today. In it there are some juicy bits. Like this: Hmmm …. Ok … what is Glass-Steagall? What went wrong was that the housing bubble, which was quite speculative in Florida and Las Vegas, burst. Elsewhere, we had unsustainable growth in “value” of housing. But this story is … well … prescient … and not in a good way … Ok, thats just plain old scary.

* @[insideHPC](http://twitter.com/insideHPC) Volume rules. This is why HPC is, and must, go down market, to desktops. And why accelerators are so important. [in reply to insideHPC](http://twitter.com/insideHPC/statuses/1381719127) [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/1381741850) * @[herrold](http://twitter.com/herrold) You should tell you quant friend that we (scalable) are well on our way to 16 GPUs per machine. Currently max 8. Pegasus-gpu [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/1382043143) Powered by Twitter Tools.

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one blog post per tweet is a fast way to get a social networking echo chamber (or feedback loop).

Ok, I know you have been asking … What is a “velocibunny” Think of it as … um … a very very fast JackRabbit. Not that JackRabbit isn’t fast … it appears to be best in its class in performance. But “velocibunny” is faster. A lot faster. How fast and what workloads? It is specifically designed to be usable as a very fast database engine. As in PostgreSQL and related. Now mind you, it is in lab with the first iteration of an OS load, and ** NO TUNING** This is “build the RAID10 out of the box and start using it with a base load”.