Gridget > March 30, 2007

PC Blades Save Power, Pigs, and Carbon

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] First InformationWeek reports that data centers more than doubled their energy consumption between 2000 and 2005. Then iTWire cheekily observes that you could roast a pig on a single 19-inch server rack.

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PC Blade Daily Links 2007-03-29

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] PC Blade Daily: PC Blades Save Power, Pigs, and Carbon “Fortunately, the technologies that many businesses are already using to increase process speeds, encourage efficiency, and reduce server sprawl are the same technologies that lower power consumption as well.” SearchServerVirtualization: VMware exec dishes on product direction “”˜Between CPU, memory and I/O virtualization, in three years’ time, we should be able to eliminate the performance overhead, so that virtual equals native.’” (via virtualization.info) Data Center Central: A 10-Gig Boost to the Ethernet “There’s also the fact, as mentioned in a blog a few days ago, that virtualization and multicore technology are creating a bottleneck in the I/O portion of the network ”” an issue which 10 GbE can address nicely.” InfoWorld Virtualization Report: Linux Kernel Gains a new VMware Option “The 2.6.21 kernel update will allow paravirtualized operating systems such as Linux to modify itself for faster...

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Posted at 01:34 PM

March 30, 2007

PC Blades Save Power, Pigs, and Carbon

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] First InformationWeek reports that data centers more than doubled their energy consumption between 2000 and 2005. Then iTWire cheekily observes that you could roast a pig on a single 19-inch server rack.

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Posted at 01:40 PM

PC Blade Daily Links 2007-03-29

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] PC Blade Daily: PC Blades Save Power, Pigs, and Carbon “Fortunately, the technologies that many businesses are already using to increase process speeds, encourage efficiency, and reduce server sprawl are the same technologies that lower power consumption as well.” SearchServerVirtualization: VMware exec dishes on product direction “”˜Between CPU, memory and I/O virtualization, in three years’ time, we should be able to eliminate the performance overhead, so that virtual equals native.’” (via virtualization.info) Data Center Central: A 10-Gig Boost to the Ethernet “There’s also the fact, as mentioned in a blog a few days ago, that virtualization and multicore technology are creating a bottleneck in the I/O portion of the network ”” an issue which 10 GbE can address nicely.” InfoWorld Virtualization Report: Linux Kernel Gains a new VMware Option “The 2.6.21 kernel update will allow paravirtualized operating systems such as Linux to modify itself for faster...

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Posted at 01:34 PM

March 27, 2007

Commodity Computing Cycles (C3) and ETech

http://blogs.weogeo.com/pbissett [Under the Radar] We must be channeling the same psychic hotline, because it mirrors the case I laid out in the Cycles in the Sky blog earlier this week.

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Posted at 01:06 PM

Congratulations to our friends at Tangosol!

http://powersunfiltered.com [Powers Unfiltered] Oracle is on the march again ”” buying grid software company Tangasol.  http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=76 Oracle may be coming to its senses...

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Posted at 01:05 PM

March 23, 2007

Blades Help Banks Keep Their Cutting Edge

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] “Stock markets are some of the most information-intensive spaces there are; they’ve long been pioneers in adopting technologies for creating...

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Posted at 01:37 PM

Cycles in the Sky

http://blogs.weogeo.com/pbissett [Paul’s Blog] To those who have been involved in the development of large scale distributed computing, i.e., cluster and grid computing, the concepts and applications of the revolution are decades old. To the computation science community, including weather forecasters, climate change scientists, numerical ecologists, artificial intelligence experts, bomb developers, etc., these types of efforts have been at the forefront of super computing technology development.

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Posted at 01:34 PM

March 20, 2007

HPC Presentation in Denver

http://et.cairene.net [Expert Texture] If you will be in Denver on April 5th, come by and see my good friend Nathan Trueblood present on the Digipede Network.  

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Posted at 01:06 PM

PC Blade Daily Links 2007-03-19

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] “PC Blades marry the scalability and ease of management of centralized computing with the user benefits of the traditional PC.”

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March 13, 2007

PC Blade Daily Links 2007-03-12

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] PC Blade Daily: Laptop Security’s Newest Threat: Airports ” security screeners can confiscate laptops and hold...

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Posted at 01:07 PM

more ideas on Grid computing

http://blog.lotas-smartman.net [Tiernans Comms Closet] I know i keep going on and on about this Grid computing idea, but its a really intriguing idea. the way i see it is that it enables both developers to get the most from their applications, and users to get the most from their hardware. So, my newest idea on how to use this is on the server backend. specifically, my server backend. the main place i see this being extreamly handy is the photography site. so, photos are uploaded to the photography site, with some data about those photos (keywords/tags). once the photos are uploaded, they are processed. Processing envolves resizing to different widths and also extracting meta data. then uploading the metadata and the photos to Amazon's S3, with the photo data (including meta data) also going to the SQL server. the reason for placing in both S3 and SQL is backup. if the SQL copy goes away, i still have the S3 data and can rebuild. So, this is where the extra processing horse power would come in handy. its not thats its needed, as such, but...

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Posted at 01:05 PM

March 09, 2007

GridPP Storage Blog

[manasclerk's The Power Struggle] http://gridpp-storage.blogspot.com/ Grieg Cowan's probably got the single most useful stuff out there if you're trying to put your sites terabytes...

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Posted at 01:40 PM

BOINC client lets Mac users contribute cycles

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] If you encountered a labful or officeful of Macs in the early 2000s, chances are good that a bunch of them were running SETI@Home, the 'contributed computing' project to search through radioastronomy signals for the telltale signs of an extraterrestrial civilization. While the classic SETI@Home application was closed down in December of 2005, the successor client for grid science is alive and well: BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, recently updated to version 5.8.15 and happily Universal Binary.

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Posted at 01:38 PM

March 06, 2007

PC Blade Daily Links 2007-03-05

[ PC Blade Daily - Practical News and Views on Centralized Computing] “Some IT insiders have suggested that virtualization techniques will eliminate traditional monitoring.”

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Posted at 01:04 PM