Posts by ToddRundgren

Cray lands $70m super deals

@Morten

The CX1 is a box of INtel MBs with standard IB connectivity. It will run Win HPC as well as Linux.

Cray super upgrade

Your headline of "beats IBM" is completly bogus and lazy journalism. Who in there right mind would buy a system from Cray then 2 years later buy upgrade CPUs from someone else? Similarly you ain't going to buy a Bluegene, then ask Sun, sorry Oracle for some new CPUs

SGI renews Itanium super love (sort of)

SGI renews Itanium super love

Of course they are hedging their bets. They can't afford to develop a new Altix x700 architecture for Tuckwilla, although Ultrviolet was purported to be a design for either Xeon or Itanium.

Don't you just love Barranchea's biz-speak: "interesting and compleeling" sheesh.

IBM lifts the veil on Power7 chips

IBM Power 7

UltraSPARC 2-3 X faster than Power 7. I find that very very hard to believe. What are you measuring?

IBM 'in talks' to buy Sun Microsystems

Isn't Storagetek and IBMs FCAL storage rebranded LSI?

I thought LSI supplied both Storagetk and IBM with there mid-highend disc arrays, including snapshot and replication sw. If so there would be no intergration apart from chossing the colour of the paint.

Large Hadron Timewaster

ToddRundgren

The reason the LHC was "switched" on last year, was because the consortia's politicians said it had to be. Being switched on and being switched on at full power are (forgive the pun), light years apart. Another interseting fact is that, (due to time constraints to hit the autumn switch-on), CERN only tested 1/10 of the magnets, which are needed to keep the beam away from the pipelines wall. That's professional isn't it?

My guess therefore is by October 2009, + 6 months they might have ignition at full power and be able to do some useful stuff.

Why tell the truth in the first place.