Whether your HPC center is in Lilliput or Blefuscu, you’ll appreciate the importance of a flexible and easy-to-use cluster management solution to empower your populations. Administrators need software that will allow them to easily setup, manage, monitor and maintain their infrastructure and ensure consistency for repeatable performance.
Containers are useful. Whether you’re shipping things across the blue seas or encapsulating applications on a computer system, they provide numerous benefits. HPC Administrators will know that applications today can depend upon multiple packages, libraries and environments.
OpenPOWER continues to put the power down and accelerate strongly in 2015.
Earlier this year, the First Annual OpenPOWER Summit took place and more recently Cabot Partners published the paper Crossing the Performance Chasm with OpenPOWER, outlining the benefits of OpenPOWER for HPC.
People who know me, know that I like to tinker. Whether it’s with cars, computers or other mechanical gizmos, I’ve always enjoyed dismantling and reassembling things - understanding what makes them tick.
This week we look at another RISC powered notebook, this time from IBM.
Although IBM did produce a line of PowerPC based Thinkpad systems, this blog is focused on a little known system called the IBM Workpad z50.
It’s been ages since my last blog. What better way to start off the new year then by looking at the past. In this case, let’s wind the clock all the way back to 2001.