eBay DROPS DEAD AGAIN - tat bazaar says sorry, scrambles to resurrect site [Thu Sep 18 2014]

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Sweden orders TWO PETAFLOP supercomputer

Royal Institute of Technology tires of mere 93 teraflop machine

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/18/kth_snacks_again_at_the_cray_super_cafe/



Sweden's KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) is continuing its Cray

fandom, placing a US$13 million order for an XC super and taking the

institute into the petascale era.



Cray first got its foot in the door at KTH in 2010, with a 93

teraflop-rated XT6m midrange system.



The XC unit now on order and due for delivery before year's-end will be

put to work on familiar HPC workloads: fluid dynamics, climate

modelling, plasma physics, neuroscience, materials science and

molecular modelling.



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Seagate's BUMPER State of the Storage Nation announcement

Wannabe 'digital data steward' speaks to the masses

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/15/seagate_state_of_the_storage_nation_pitch/



Positioning itself as a data steward, Seagate has presented its storage

state of the nation pitch, announcing: three new disk drives; LaCie

Thunderbolt external storage; two server flash cards and a controller;

an HPC array; a new backup appliance; and a bright and shiny cloud and

enterprise business unit.



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eBay DROPS DEAD AGAIN - tat bazaar says sorry, scrambles to resurrect

site

Customer service system also six feet under

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/14/ebay_outage/



eBay went titsup earlier today, and the company is now attempting to

bring its site back to life.



The online tat bazaar coughed to an unexplained technical blunder

preventing an unknown number of its subscribers from accessing the

site, which many buyers and sellers of used goods enjoy using in their

spare time on the weekends.



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Intel's DDR4-friendly Xeon workhorses bolt for workstations, servers

New E5 v3 chips available in 32 different flavors for Dell, IBM, Cray

et al

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/intel_xeon_e5_v3/



Intel's latest-generation Xeon E5 v3 processors first showed up in

systems from the likes of Dell last month, but Chipzilla made them

generally available on Monday – with all of 32 different parts heading

for OEMs and the channel.



The new Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-1600 v3 chips are all based on Intel's

x86-64 Haswell microarchitecture, and fabbed using a 22nm process.



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Nvidia builds CUDA GPU programming library for machine learning – so

you don't have to

Craft a deep neural network on a graphics chipset

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/nvidia_machine_learning_data_library/



Nvidia has released a set of software routines for accelerating

machine-learning algorithms on its parallelized graphics processors.



Over the weekend, the GPU maker uploaded cuDNN – CUDA Deep Neural

Networks – which is a library of primitives for building software that

trains neural networks.



The component is optimized for Nvidia's processors and should, in

theory, save programmers time: by using the library, developers won't

have to reinvent the wheel when tuning parallelized machine-learning

algorithms for GPUs – offloading the mathematical work from the host's

application CPU.



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HAMR time for Google's MapReduce, says not-so-startup

Flowlets, break it down

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/mapreduce_hamr_time/



Like the idea of chewing on terabytes data using Google's MapReduce but

think it's too slow, too hardware-hungry and too complicated?



A fledgling big-data analytics venture reckons it's got the answer - a

Hadoop programming framework built using Java it claims is 20 times

faster than using ordinary Hadoop and that it claims uses less

data-centre hardware. It's easier to program, too, they claim.



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Square Kilometre Array reveals its 1.6TB-a-day storage and network rigs

Boolardy Engineering Test Array - aka BETA - is about to come out of

Beta

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/boolardy_ska_test_facility_close_to_golive/



Australia's first pass at the Square Kilometre Array – the Boolardy

Engineering Test Array – is about to get commissioned into a fully-live

system.



The test array, known naturally enough as BETA, is part of the

science-before-the-science: a proving ground for some of the new

technologies being used for the SKA project, in particular, the Phased

Array Feeds.



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