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Today NetApp announced the new NetApp E5500 storage system for Big Data and HPC applications. Derived from Engenio technology acquired from LSI, the seventh-generation E-Series is a high-density platform with record per-spindle throughput.
The SGI InfiniteStorage 5600, which is an OEM version of the NetApp E5500, has produced a new SPC-2 result confirming the performance and cost efficiency of the new E5500; it showcases the performance possibilities the E5500 unlocks for HPC and big data organizations. The audited, peer-reviewed SPC-2 result demonstrates the highest throughput per spindle by more than 2.5 times over the nearest non-NetApp published result.
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In related news, SGI rolled out the InfiniteStorage 5600 storage system today, noting that the flexibility of the platform enables users to push the limit without breaking their budget.
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The Unknowns that come with Exascale
Posted in Exascale, HPC
Over at Reed’s Ruminations, Dan Reed writes that the road to Exascale will come complete with the unknowns that make up any change that involves orders of magnitude.
All currently envisioned exascale systems would require parallelism at unprecedented scale, and barring new, energy efficient memory technologies; they would be memory starved relative to current systems, even under a 20 MW system design point; and multilevel fault tolerance would be required to achieve acceptable systemic mean time to failure (MTBF). Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.
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Video: Supercomputer Modelling of a Complete Human Viral Pathogen
Posted in HPC, Video, Visualization
In this video, researchers perform a reconstruction and simulation of the poliovirus using the BlueGene/Q supercomputer at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative. The poliovirus model is being used as a basis for understanding antiviral drugs, virus infection and helps us to learn how to model related viruses such as Enterovirus 71.
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Sponsored Post: OpenFabrics Software Events Coming to Monterey in April
Posted in Events, HPC, HPC Hardware, HPC Software, Network, Open Fabrics, Open Fabrics Workshop, Sponsored Post
Be a part of the OpenFabrics Alliance’s OpenFabrics Software events in Monterey, CA.
The OFA User Workshop, April 18-19, provides opportunities to share experiences and learn from a community of OFS users.
The International Developer’s Workshop, April 21-24, will focus on the development and improvement of OFS as well as major developments in RDMA, etc. Agenda and more information is available on OpenFabrics.org.
Registration for the two events is now open. For more details, check out the OFA Newsletter.
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Video: Enterprise HPC in the Cloud – Fortune 500 Use Cases
Posted in Cloud HPC, Events, Video
Over at the Compute Cycles Blog, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing writes that the recent AWS: reInvent conference featured a series of talks on Enterprise Use Cases of HPC in the Cloud. In this video, Stowe introduces Cloud HPC talks from Johnson & Johnson, Pacific Life, Hartford Insurance, and Life Technologies.
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Benchmarking Intel Xeon Phi vs. Sandy Bridge
Posted in Co-processors, Compute, HPC, HPC Hardware
Intel has been careful to label the Xeon Phi as a coprocessor, something that always pairs with a Xeon CPU. But how does their performance compare on real applications? Over at the Xcelerit Blog, Paul Sutton benchmarks both devices using an optimized parallel version of the Monte-Carlo LIBOR swaption portfolio pricer.
It is executed once on the host CPUs (the Sandy Bridge processors), and again on the Xeon Phi co-processor in offload mode. The execution time of the full application is measured, including data transfers, random number generation, and reduction. All these steps are running on the target processor.
As we can see, from about 100K paths onwards, the Intel Xeon Phi becomes faster than the Sandy Bridge processors, reaching nearly 3x at 1M paths. With lower numbers of paths, the Sandy Bridge outperforms the Phi. This can be explained by the added data transfers and the comparably low level of parallelism for a low number of paths (considering both vectorization and multi-threading). The setup time for the random number generator also becomes more dominant on the Xeon Phi when there is relatively little computation performed.
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Podcast: Student Cluster Competition Comes to South Africa, Winners off to ISC’13
Posted in Events, HPC, ISC13, Podcast, Rich Report
In this podcast, Happy Sithole from CHPC and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discuss the first-ever Student Cluster Competition in South Africa, which wrapped up in December. The winning team will be traveling to compete in the ISC’13 Student Cluster Competition in Leipzig this June.
Download the MP3 or Subscribe on iTunes.
In related news, you can now follow all the major worldwide Student Cluster Competitions at their new home site.
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1 Terabyte/sec File Systems Enable Big Fast Data
Posted in HPC, HPC Hardware, Storage
Over at the new Cray Blog, VP of Storage Barry Bolding writes that Big Data at the company is synonymous with very fast data access. As evidenced by the Lustre-powered Terabyte/sec file system on Blue Waters, the time for Big Fast Data has come.
Success was achieved on Oct. 7, 2012 when Cray and NCSA measured 1.037 TB/sec of performance to a single Lustre filesystem and 1.137 TB/sec of simultaneously to all three Lustre filesystems. To put this achievement into mass media perspective, 1TB/sec is equivalent to downloading about 125 copies of Dead Space 3 per second, or about 250,000 songs through Spotify per second. This is a milestone for parallel filesystems, a milestone for Lustre, a milestone for Cray and a milestone for our customer at NCSA. Best of all this the technology is being put to good use by a cadre of National Science Foundation users in solving some of the most challenging scientific problems facing our world today.
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