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		<title>Putting the &#8220;Work&#8221; Back in &#8220;Workstation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just back from SC09 in Portland – lots of &#8220;buzz&#8221; about Cray there, including our newest addition to the Cray CX family – the Cray CX1-iWS. If you haven&#8217;t heard about it yet, the iWS is an &#8220;integrated workstation&#8221; – a Microsoft Windows 7 workstation with a fully integrated HPC cluster running Microsoft Windows HPC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/11/putting-the-work-back-in-workstation/</link>
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		<title>Does More Cores Mean Less Nodes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Packing cores into a node means less servers are needed, but the market is still growing.
Ever since the shift to multi-core processors began, I have always had a nagging question &#8211; Does more cores mean less nodes? I have wrestled with this question and finally realized that there is no simple answer. I should preface [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/does-more-cores-mean-less-nodes/</link>
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		<title>Platform HPC Workgroup Manager v1.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Platform Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Platform HPC Workgroup Manager v1.1.
Platform HPC Workgroup Manager v1.1 is sold through Platform Computing partners and is for use in clusters containing 32-nodes or less.  The bundle includes the following:
Platform Cluster Manager (PCM) v1.2 – Standard Edition
Platform LSF Workgroup 7 Update 5
Platform MPI v5.6.6
The offering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/platform-hpc-workgroup-manager-v11/</link>
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		<title>The Cluster Bookshelf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An all too short list of HPC cluster books

Every so often I am asked about books on Beowulf/HPC clustering. The good news is there are books available at several levels. The bad news is no one book covers everything because the number of topic areas is so vast. To make your search easier, I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/the-cluster-bookshelf/</link>
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		<title>Getting Ahead Without Leaving People Behind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HPC industry is known for pushing the latest technology, with the spotlight often looking beyond what’s new to start talking about what’s next. Before a petaflop system was installed, system architects began discussing what it would take to reach an exaflop, and new arenas like accelerators, solid state disks, and cloud computing dominate roundtable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/getting-ahead-without-leaving-people-behind/</link>
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		<title>Clustering in the Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are clouds a good place to do build HPC Clusters?
The use of virtualization and multi-core processors has made cloud computing an option for many users. The ability to buy cloud time as you need it and not purchase hardware is certainly attractive from a financial standpoint. The concept is not new and has its roots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/clustering-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Support, Why Do I Need Cluster Support?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supporting a successful HPC cluster takes time and money, take your pick
Many of the HPC people I know are what you would call rugged individualists. The have been around since the beginning and were responsible for moving the market/community along when commodity HPC was less than fashionable. This group consists mostly of developers, implementers, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/support-why-do-i-need-cluster-support/</link>
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		<title>The Intel Cluster Checker Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well yes, this is another &#8220;cheers to the Intel Cluster Checker&#8221; blog and there must be reasons out there why people are writing about the Intel Cluster Ready program. Yes, there are reasons&#8230;
I think I do not have to state that setting up an HPC cluster sometimes is an adventure of compiling and installing different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/10/the-intel-cluster-checker-experience/</link>
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		<title>The Skinny on Solid State Disks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What you need to know about the latest trend in storage hardware
The Solid State Drive (SSD) has had a break-out year. Unlike traditional mechanical hard disk drives that use spinning platters with movable read/write heads, SSDs have no moving parts.  The SSDs is made entirely out of a special type of flash memory &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-solid-state-disks/</link>
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		<title>Future File Systems: Btrfs and ZFS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The prediction is in. What file system will move us into the future?
The thirst for better file system technology is not new to the Unix/Linux world. There is a rich history of trying to optimize the balance between the storage system and the process improvements in a demanding user environment. The efforts to build a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clusterconnection.com/2009/09/future-file-systems-btrfs-and-zfs/</link>
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