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Compute is closing
Submitted by davidh on Thu, 2010-03-18 16:57.Compute is closing Wed 31 March 2010
Compute has been in operation now for almost 2.5 years
It has 67 registered users and almost 1000 articles or comments. We averaged 100 visits per week.
However, it has never got the kind of community recognition we had hoped for, and due to the fact maintaining it is time consuming, we have had to move on. In order to take it to the next level requires resources that I have need elsewhere, and organisations (apart from HP) are quite leery.
Unfortunately, the growth of the Industrial Computing community has not really happened in this country, or if it did, it has been the same old box droppers of yore. Besides, cloud computing has replaced the HPC space quite well.
We have learned a lot and had fun doing it. We are just going to do different things differently now.
Holes in SA's skills pipeline
Submitted by davidh on Tue, 2010-04-20 09:35.ITWeb by Leigh-Ann Francis, Johannesburg, 19 Apr 2010
Latency in the skills pipeline and the undervaluation of education fuel SA's ICT skills crisis, says ScrumSense.
It is the responsibility of every ICT professional to contribute towards alleviating the skills crisis, says ScrumSense's Marius de Beer.
It is the responsibility of every ICT professional to contribute towards alleviating the skills crisis, says ScrumSense's Marius de Beer.
SA's ICT skills pipeline is broken, with the skills being fed into industry not matching the needs. For reasons that can not be explained, South Africans do not have respect for education, which is most likely why this has happened.
Young scientists represent SA at US fair
Submitted by davidh on Mon, 2010-04-19 11:48.IT-Online Monday, 19 April 2010, 11:29
In just a few weeks time, four of South Africa’s young scientists will be jetting off to the US to represent South Africa at the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) which is taking place from 11 to 14 May.
Good for Eskom ...
US DoJ probes tech companies' hiring practices
Submitted by davidh on Sat, 2010-04-10 15:52.Business Report (Reporting by Elinor Comlay; Editing by Alex Richardson) - Reuters, April 10, 2010
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether some of the biggest technology companies agreed not to recruit each others' employees, violating antitrust laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The investigation is looking into hiring practices at companies including Apple Inc, Google Inc, IAC/InterActiveCorp, International Business Machines and Intel Corp, the newspaper reported.
This would be a fun thing to happen in South Africa as well.
IBM brings supercomputing storage into the cloud
Submitted by davidh on Fri, 2010-02-12 17:00.computing (Written by Iain Thomson in San Francisco, 11 Feb 2010)
Sonas system will scale to 14 petabytes
IBM has introduced a network storage array based around its supercomputing platforms, and aimed at medium and large enterprises.
The Scale Out Network Attached Storage (Sonas) system uses between one and 30 storage 'pods' containing a storage node, a storage controller and 7,200 or 15,000 drives. These can be scaled up to a claimed 14.4 petabytes of storage.
$250m MS-HP deal to benefit SA
Submitted by davidh on Thu, 2010-01-14 12:44.ITWeb By Nicola Mawson, Johannesburg, 14 Jan 2010
The deal will see investment coming to SA, says HP's Manoj Bhoola.
Microsoft's $250 million collaboration with HP is set to benefit about 10 000 channel distributors in SA.The deal, the largest to date in the companies' 25-year partnership, will also see some of the $250 million coming into SA in the form of marketing spend, skills development, and research and development investment.
Cloud growth outstrips rest of industry
Submitted by davidh on Tue, 2010-01-05 09:23.(By Paul Furber, ITWeb contributor, Hamburg, 5 Jan 2010 ) Cloud computing has a bright future over the next four years, according to HP's VP and GM of software products, Robin Purohit.
Eating Your Own Tail: HPC in 2009
Submitted by davidh on Sun, 2010-01-03 19:47.Linux Magazine Douglas Eadline, Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Truth is stranger than fiction. The connection that helped end HPC careers and companies in 2009
What Linuxy things To Expect in 2010
Submitted by davidh on Sun, 2010-01-03 19:45.Linux Magazine has an article by Christopher Smart, Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The next twelve months will be good to Linux and Free software, but we won’t capture the market just yet.
