Student cluster challenge win in case study

By John West | Published February 11, 2010

A while ago my friend Brian from Mellanox sent me a link to a case study (PDF) they had recently put on their website. I don’t usually point to case studies, but this one is interesting in that it talks about how Mellanox worked with the team from Stony Brook University that won the Student Cluster Competition at SC09.

Each year, SC features a Student Cluster Competition where undergraduate student teams compete against each

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Swimming pools. Movie stars.

By John West | Published December 14, 2009

Our pal Joe Landman over at Scalable Informatics (an advertiser on this site) was interviewed during SC09, and has posted a link to the show

TECHiNSIGHT magazine has posted the interview. This is what they say about Joe:
“Joe Landman, founder and CEO at Scalable Informatics is a smart guy and not just because he has a PH.D. He’s developed a couple of impressive machines and come up with a great way to prove how

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Live from the show floor with the InfiniBand Trade Association

By John West | Published December 8, 2009

During SC09 week I grabbed some time at the end of a day to sit down with Bryan Sparks and Jim Ryan in their capacities as members of the InfiniBand Trade Association (they both have day jobs; Brian is with Mellanox and Jim works for Intel). During our conversation we touched on the IBTA’s ten-year anniversary and the evolution of InfiniBand from fringe technology to stalwart of the Top500 list. Along the way we touch …

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Live from the show floor with Dell: a discussion about Cray, competition, and partnerships in HPC

By John West | Published December 2, 2009

During SC week I sat down with Donnie Bell, senior manager in the enterprise marketing group, to talk about the announcement that Dell would be marketing a version of Cray’s CX1 to low-end HPC users. This audio is much more two way than some of the other conversations I’ve posted, because I was curious about some of the details that went into this deal. After giving me an overview of …

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Live from the show floor with Adaptive Computing

By John West | Published December 1, 2009

As part of my audio catch-up from SC09 here is my conversation with Michael Jackson, the Co-founder, President, and COO of Adaptive Computing (formerly known as Cluster Resources). Michael is talking about Adaptive’s news during the week of the show: Moab’s connection with Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager and HP’s plans to resell Moab Adaptive Computing Suite, and Moab in the University of …

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Live from the show floor with Avere Systems

By John West | Published December 1, 2009

This year, as with last year, I recorded a bunch of audio during my meetings at SC. Unlike last year, however, I didn’t get hardly anything up during the show. So over the next several days I’ll be mending that sin as I work through my audio backlog.

In this segment Ron Bianchini, the President and CEO of Avere, starts off by introducing us to his well-seasoned team, and …

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Grossman on ten years of bandwidth challenges

By John West | Published December 1, 2009

Bob Grossman, whose posts we always look forward to here at the galactic regional headquarters of insideHPC, has a new one up this AM looking back on the past ten years of the Bandwidth Challenge at SC and commenting on the increasing need for pipes to move all the data around

Some of the history is available at the web site scinet.supercomputing.org. For example, in 2000, there were 2 OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) circuits that

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Unofficial Stats on SC09

By John West | Published November 30, 2009

Betsy Riley, and SC09 committee member, posted some unofficial stats on attendance at SC09 this year in response to a LinkedIn question. I’ve gotten a few emails about this, so I’m re-posting her answer here

all registrations: 10,189
tech program: 4,032
exhibitor: 3,491
exhibits only: 533 (plus 1,723 guests)
71 countries represented, all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and DC

318 exhibiting companies using 131,650 sq. feet of exhibit space
123 research exhibitors (new all-time

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SC09 flash storage panel video

By John West | Published November 27, 2009

Rich Brueckner has posted a link to video they shot during SC09 at the flash storage panel

Abstract: With an exponential growth spurt of peak GFLOPs available to HPC system designers and users imminent, the CPU performance I/O gap will reach increasingly gaping proportions. To bridge this gap, Flash is suddenly being deployed in HPC as a revolutionary technology that delivers faster time to solution for HPC applications at significantly lower costs and lower

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Birds do it, bees do it

By John West | Published November 26, 2009

Well everyone else is putting pen to paper on what they did with their time at SC, so here’s mine. I’ll skip the things that everyone else is already writing about, and jump to the few observations I have that I haven’t seen elsewhere.

During the course of the conference I had 45 meetings with the companies, programs, individuals, and agencies who are shaping the direction our community is headed in both the near and far …

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