First session is underway at 08:30 although I'm still adjusting to GMT+1. The first two sessions this morning are focused on data intensive scientific computing and includes a presentation on the Large Hadron Collider. That's been getting a lot of media so I'm looking forward to that. The speaker Mark Hamilton also has a blog including this conference which is much much better than mine. Open Office has a new plug in that says not only save as...but also save as cloud. Mmm that could be interesting as he is giving the presentation that way this morning which is pretty brave (probably).
Tokyo Institute of Technology (TiTech) TSUBAME Supercomputer (weather forecasting?) funded by Japanese Goverment March 2006 built out of X86 components on Open Storage platform ( note that they are shipping 100 Petabytes of open storage every month - does that count as a data explosion?). Feb 2008 TACC Ranger Supercomputer in the US which is the largest open compute cluster in the world (half a petaflop of compute power). Key issues are all around power, cooling no longer footprint. Juelich Supercomputer in Germany in progress. SUN has edged ahead in terms of open storage attached to these devices. That must feed through into the more traditional stuff in most businesses.
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