Entries filed under “Cloud HPC”

Technologies, tools, and developments related to the provision of HPC as a service (clouds, grids, and so on).

Building a Human – The 200-terabyte Construction Manual in the Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 12, 2012

over at Wired Magazine writes that Amazon is taking genomics to the Cloud in a big way:

What do you do with a 200-terabyte instruction manual that tells you how to build a human? You put it on a cloud. That’s what Amazon and the National Institute of Health (NIH) have done with the 1000Genomes project, using Amazon’s S3 storage service to offer over 1,700 human genomes to genetics researchers across the globe. “This is what allows us to drive more complex maps of how genes interact with each other and their environment and zoom in on areas that may have a role to play in human health and disease,” says Matt Wood, who oversees Amazon’s side of the project and holds a PhD in bioinformatics. “This is the seed to create a tree of data.”

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Video: HPC Cloud Computing with Penguin on Demand

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 11, 2012

In this video, Arend Dittmer from Penguin Computing presents: HPC Cloud Computing with Penguin on Demand. Recorded at Moab.Con 2012 in Park City, UT.

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Video: Georgia Tech Cluster Management

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 11, 2012

In this video, Paul Manno from Georgia Tech presents: Georgia Tech Cluster Management. Recorded at Moab.Con 2012 in Park City, UT.

Based on 15 years experience, the Georgia Tech PACE team has opted for a stateful system management approach, avoiding re-imaging for node updates. The GTSWD (Georgia Tech SoftWare Distribution) system has become an integral and efficient way to manage OS, libraries, authorization, and user-experience code on nearly 1000 compute, storage, and head nodes.

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SciNet speeds Ontario R&D

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 11, 2012

As part of the new Southern Ontario Smart Computing and Innovation Partnership (SOSCIP) with IBM, the Federal Government, Government of Ontario, the University of Toronto and six other Ontario Universities, SciNet will be running what is expected to be Canada’s largest supercomputer, an IBM Blue Gene/Q which will be able to execute almost a half quadrillion mathematical operations per second.

One of seven Compute Canada high-performance computing consortia across Canada, SciNet is a local hub for technical and high-performance computing expertise. This new project will increase the amount of available resources to support Ontario’s innovative technology sector, with a focus on working with small- and medium-sized enterprises to speed product research and development.

The new system is expected to be up and running in autumn 2012, with necessary upgrades to the SciNet data centre already taking place. ‘We’re very excited about our role in this new project,’ said Dr Chris Loken, CTO of SciNet.

This incredible new resource, plus our existing experience in working with a wide range of clients solving their research and development computing problems, is going to enable us to help many more Ontario innovators use computing to solve their R&D problems.

This story originally appeared on HPC Projects. It appears here as part of a cross-publishing agreement with Scientific Computing World.

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Video: Portals 4 Exascale

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 27, 2012

In this video, Ron Brightwell from Sandia National Labs and Bob Pearson from System Fabric Works present: Portals 4 Exascale. Recorded at the Open Fabrics Workshop on March 26, 2012 in Monterey, CA.

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Slidecast: The Need for Datacenter Automation Powers OpsCode Chef

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 27, 2012

In this slidecast, OpsCode CEO Mitch Hill describes the company’s Chef products for Datacenter automation. Opscode just came out of a $19.5 Million Series C round of funding and is gearing up for its first annual ChefConf 2012 user conference May 15-17 in San Francisco.

As we enter the era of cloud computing, it is critical that we solve for the skills and tools gap created by the rapid and unabated proliferation of IT complexity,” said Mitch Hill, CEO, Opscode. “Opscode Chef bridges that gap by enabling IT with the tools and skills necessary to effectively build and manage next-generation IT infrastructure. Today, we’re already seeing significant enterprise traction for our commercial Chef products, with some of the world’s leading companies using Chef to gain business agility and competitive advantage.”

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Video: HPC & Cloud – Exploit the Full Potential of your Cluster with IBM & Platform

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 25, 2012

In this video, Terry Fischer of IBM Platform Computing presents: HPC & Cloud - How you can Exploit the Full Potential of your Cluster to Solve the Challenges of Tomorrow.  Download the slides (PDF).

Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop on March 14, 2012.

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Xyratex Launches Most-Dense Storage Platform on the Planet

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 21, 2012

Today Xyratex announced  a new ultra-dense storage platform for OEM providers focused on scale-out storage markets for the cloud and datacenters. With up to 2 PB in a single rack, the OneStor 2584 is designed to meet data growth and management challenges with a flexible and scalable architecture.

IDC predicts data storage usage will continue to grow at an aggressive pace and that 84% (over 147,000 petabytes) of the worldwide capacity estimated to be shipped in 2015 will be made of traditional unstructured data as well as data stored in cloud and content depots. With a growing proportion of this data designated as mission critical, the need for reliable data storage solutions in a highly dense footprint is compelling,” said Benjamin Woo, Program Vice President, Worldwide Storage Systems at IDC. “The OneStor solution offers OEMs a flexible and scalable architecture in an industry leading ultra dense form factor to address today’s appetite for storage.”

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Video: Challenges in Establishment of Open Cloud Markets

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 15, 2012

In this video, Ivona Brandic from the Vienna University of Technology presents: Challenges in Establishment of Open Cloud Markets. Download the slides (PDF).

Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop on March 13, 2012.

As the Day 2 keynote, this presentation is a fascinating mix of anthropology, economics, and computer science. It was definitely one of the highlights of the workshop and I highly recommend that you check it out.

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Podcast: Big Science Challenge Awards Time on 30,000-core Cluster for Stem Cell Research

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 13, 2012

In this podcast, Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing and Victor Ruotti from the Morgridge Institute for Research discuss the outcome of the Big Science Challenge 2011. As the winner of the contest, Ruotti will be awarded $10,000 of computation time, the equivalent of eight hours on a 30,000-core cluster. The contest was open to all applicants working on behalf of non-profit organizations to further humanity and state of the art research using utility supercomputing.

The high throughput computing power of CycleCloud will enable the classification of currently uncharacterized cell types, including hES cells and iPS cells from our laboratory,” said Victor Ruotti, computational biologist, Morgridge Institute for Research. “The transcript profiles from each cell type will be analyzed and compared by aligning billions of sequencing reads in combinatorial pair wise steps. By doing so, we will create the first read level index to yield classified cellular derivatives along with methods to produce these cell types in a laboratory setting which could become potential therapies of the future.”

Read the Full Story (PDF) * Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * If Dropbox is blocked, download from this Google page.

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Researchers Encouraged to Submit Proposals on Security in Virtualization

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 9, 2012

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The good folks at VMware Labs have issued their Spring 2012 Request for Proposals on Security for Virtualized and Cloud Platforms.

Our research interests in the field of security are broad, including but not limited to the following topics: Homomorphic encryption systems and their applications in cloud environments, security isolation in mobile hypervisors, covert channels in hypervisors, multi-level security isolation guarantees with hypervisors, security implications of GPU virtualization, virtual machine introspection, anomaly detection in virtual desktop environments, leveraging virtualization to improve intrusion detection, and secure cloud computation on untrusted platforms.

Abstracts are due March 16, 2012. Winners will receive initial funding up to $150,000, so get on it! Read the Full Story.

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Digipede Eases Grid Deployments for Windows

By Ralph | Published March 8, 2012

This week Digipede Technologies released version 3.0 of its award-winning grid software solution for the Microsoft Windows platform. With increased performance and new compatibility with the latest Microsoft technologies, Digipede Network 3.0 offers customers more flexibility and deployment options.

We’re pleased with the continued positive market reception for our grid computing solutions,” said John Powers, President of Digipede. “This release is both a continuation and a departure for us. In past releases, we’ve emphasized the importance of tools for developers that make grid-enabling applications easier than any other high-performance computing platform – and that continues in 3.0. But we’ve also placed more effort this time on providing additional options for deployment, to benefit IT staff at our customers. By enabling Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) throughout our system, we’ve not only improved performance – in some cases, quite significantly – but we’ve greatly expanded the deployment scenarios that can be supported for enterprise and cloud installations.”

Digipede also announced new customer wins at Lockheed Martin and Barrie & Hibbert. Read the Full Story.

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Recap: Israel HPC Conference, on to Lugano HPC Workshop Next Week

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 6, 2012

One of the early highlights for me in 2012 was the chance to travel to the Israel HPC Conference last month. Hosted by Tel Aviv University and the HPC Advisory Council, the event comprised a set of great talks that I decided to recap here.


 Talks in English, Slides in English: 

  • Opening session – The HPC Advisory Council activities in Israel and Abroad (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council Chairman and Yan Benhammou, Tel Aviv University) Video * PDF

  • The Challenges of Scalable Simulation Science (Richard Graham, Oak-Ridge National Laboratory, USA) Video * PDF
  • Building supercomputers made easy with high speed interconnects (Michael Kagan, Mellanox Technologies) Video * PDF

  • Leveraging Access Switching For HPC monitoring (Sharon Besser, NetOptics) Video* (PDF)

  • The future of supercomputers software libraries (Prof Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA) Video * PDF
  • Virtual SMP and On-Demand SMP with high speed interconnects (Shai Fultheim, ScaleMP) Video * PDF

  • High performance cloud computing (Avner Algom, Israeli Association of Grid Technologies, Israel) Video * PDF
  • XGE “vHPC” – Achieving supercomputing performance with existing infrastructure (Dori Exterman, Xoreax Software) Video * PDF

Talks in Hebrew, Slides in English:

  • The future of heterogeneous processing (Yaki Tebeka, AMD) Video * PDF

  • Designing the next generation high-performance computing centers (Gilad Berman, IBM) Video * PDF

  • The importance of high-performance and high-throughput computing in Israel (Dr. Guy Tel-Zur, NRCN and Ben-Gurion University, Israel) PDF * Video

We’re headed into the busy Spring Event Season here at insideHPC.

Next up is the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop in Lugano, March 13-15. Register Now!

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Podcast: Cycle Computing Powers Hyperscale Bioinformatics on Demand

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 1, 2012

In this podcast, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing discusses the company’s recent RFP win at the Pistoia Alliance, a consortium of life science companies looking to crack their shared, fundamental research problems.

Cycle is committed to supporting the standards that help spark innovation, unify silos and streamline data digestion,” said Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing. “We look forward to collaborating with the alliance members and with the talent of Eagle Genomics in bioinformatics and Cycle Computing in Cloud HPC workflow management, meet the challenges facing both researchers today and into the next generation.”

Cycle Computing is getting traction in the bioinformatics space, where their core competency in utility supercomputing is helping scientists expand their research horizons with massive clusters on demand. Read the Full Story.

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Slidecast: OnApp Steps Up with Worldwide Federated Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 29, 2012

Imagine a worldwide cloud full of a worldwide network of 300 cloud service providers. That’s essentially what OnApp has created with something I’m calling the OverCloud.

In this slidecast, Kosten Meteweli from OnApp presents: The Federated Cloud: What’s New for Hosts and Service Providers.

The OnApp CDN Federation is a global network of CDN PoPs, and a marketplace where you can buy and sell CDN capacity on demand. Hosts can buy CDN bandwidth from other Federation members and resell it to end users. It’s an easy way to build a global CDN service without investing millions in global infrastructure.

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