Adaptive Computing announced that the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England has selected Moab Adaptive HPC Suite as its intelligent automation software solution. Adaptive Computing’s innovative technology reduces air conditioning costs and input power for the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BlueBear). With Moab Adaptive HPC Suite, the annual cost savings on input power and air conditioning costs for BlueBear are estimated at 10% of the total power bill for running the cluster – totaling approximately £10,000 or $16,000 USD. Used for leading research in bioinformatics, cognitive neuroscience, cancer clinical trials and robotics, to name a few, demand on the BlueBear cluster is often unpredictable. The University required a dynamic and flexible system that could operate under high and low…

Xyratex will be exhibiting at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'11) in Hamburg, Germany beginning today. This year marks the first exhibitor level participation for Xyratex at ISC with a large booth on the exhibition floor, informative presentations on The Future of HPC Data Storage, Lustre roadmap futures from Xyratex at the HPC Advisory Council workshop, multiple sessions introducing ClusterStor 3000 and inclusion in the world's first FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand ISCnet demonstration along with other key HPC organizations including Microsoft, Mellanox, HP, DELL, and Fujitsu. The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for HPC research and education, 56Gb/s InfiniBand demonstration will interconnect participating exhibitors' booths via the ISCnet network to demonstrate various HPC applications and products including Xyratex's new ClusterStor 3000…