Companies and schools are making announcements left and right at the SC08 supercomputing conference in Austin this week.
We’re not there, but have come across quite a few items already, including the San Diego Supercomputer Center and friends’ updateon Project GreenLight, an NSF-sponsored effort to test the environmental impact of data center systems.
Separately, Internet2, ESnet, Juniper Networks, Infinera and Level 3 said they are joining forces to create and test 100Gbps Ethernet technologies.
Also, Georgia Tech, which is keeping busy at the event, announced a Center for Manycore Computing whose mission is to “address deep, foundational challenges in programming, design and systems development to overcome power and architecture barriers to the progression of computer performance.”
Network World also reported this week that OEM reference supplier Fulcrum Microsystems has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet data center switch design that vendors can use to make “lossless” alternatives to Fibre Channel fabrics.
