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Video: IDC HPC Market Update from SC12

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 19, 2012

Did you know that 3Q2012 was the biggest quarter of revenue in the history of HPC? In this video from SC12, Earl Joseph from IDC presents an HPC Market Update. Topics include: Top Trends in HPC, Vendor Revenue, and HPC Forecasts as well as an overview of a new IDC Study on Creating an Economic Model for HPC and ROI. View the slides (PDF) or check out the Full Story at The Register.

In related news, IDC will host the HPC User Forum in Tucson, April 29 – May 1, 2013. For more information, check out our insideHPC Featured Events.

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Video: Interview on Energy & HPC with Jack Dongarra and Dona Crawford

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 15, 2012

In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting sits down with Jack Dongarra (ORNL/University of Tennessee and Dona Crawford (Assoc Director LLNL) at SC12 to discuss the challenges facing HPC on the road to exascale. Along the way, they describe their TOP500-list-topping systems: Titan and Sequoia.

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Moab HPC Suite – Remote Visualization Edition at SC12

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 13, 2012

In this video from the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12, company president Michael Jackson presents: Moab HPC Suite – Remote Visualization Edition.

With Moab HPC Suite — Remote Visualization Edition, you can improve the productivity, collaboration and security of the design and research process by only transferring pixels instead of data to users to do their simulations and analysis. This enables a wider range of users to collaborate and be more productive at any time, on the same data, from anywhere without any data transfer time lags or security issues. Users also have improved immediate access to specialty applications and resources‒like GPUs‒ they might need for a project so they are no longer limited by personal workstation constraints or to a single working location.”

Download the whitepaper on Technical Visualization Workload Optimization (PDF).


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Ceph Filesystem Ready to Take Off with Linux Distributions

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 13, 2012

Over at The Register, Matt Asay writes that the Inktank startup is in a great position to grow now that the Ceph client has been accepted into the Linux kernel.

Ceph is well-positioned to capture greenfield distributed storage opportunities through its so-called object storage approach. In my experience, it’s this greenfield characteristic that should be a great catalyst for Inktank, as it gives Inktank the chance to grow under the radar of the big, incumbent vendors. Since Ceph will be stealing greenfield sales opportunities that never actually hit the radar of the proprietary vendors’ respective sales teams, they won’t know they’re bleeding until Ceph’s momentum is difficult to impossible to stop.

Read the Full Story or check out our interview below with Neil Levine from Inktank at SC12.




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Video: Moab/TORQUE Support for Intel Xeon Phi

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 12, 2012

In this video from SC12, Gary Brown from Adaptive Computing presents: Moab/TORQUE Support for Intel Xeon Phi.

The latest version of Moab was designed to recognize and work with the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, based on the Intel Many Integrated Cores (MIC) technology. This ability to automatically detect Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors– and determine their location and availability — improves processor utilization to more intelligently schedule jobs and removes the need for extensive reprogramming to integrate Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors into existing systems. It also allows for policy-based scheduling, optimizing the choice of accelerators and coprocessors. As Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors are introduced into existing systems, this keeps costs and management efforts at a minimum, while maximizing utilization to ensure the most efficient job processing — by utilizing metrics including the number of cores and hardware threads, physical and memory available (total and free), max frequency, architect and load.”

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Configuring Moab to Fairly Share a Supercomputer in a University Setting

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 11, 2012

In this video from the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12, Jenett Tillotson from Indiana University presents: Configuring Moab to Fairly Share a Supercomputer while Preventing Starvation in a University Setting.


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Video: What was Hot at SC12?

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 11, 2012

In this video from SC12, I stop by the Swiss HPC-CH booth for a cup of coffee and a chat with Michele De Lorenzi about conference highlights.

As a reminder, the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 in Lugano, Switzerland March 13-15, 2013.

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Demo: All-Spark Cube at Adaptive Computing SC12 Booth

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 11, 2012

In this video from the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12, Ian Nate from Adaptive demonstrates the flexibility of the company’s Moab software through a custom-built All Spark Cube.

Adaptive Computing, a cloud management and high performance computing outfit in Utah, needed something really cool to bring to their trade shows. Something that makes order out of chaos, and demonstrates their attention to detail in the midst of miles of wiring. They decided building the largest non-commercial LED cube would be a good project, and thus the 16x16x16 All Spark Cube was born. The All Spark Cube was constructed using 10 mm RGB LEDs wired together with three-foot lengths of 16 ga pre-tinned copper wire. In this video, [Kevin] shows off the process of constructing a single row; first the LEDs are placed in a jig, the leads are bent down, and a bus wire is soldered to 16 individual anodes per row.”


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TotalView Debugger Stands Above with Support for Blue Gene/Q

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 10, 2012

In this video from SC12, Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave Software discusses the company’s new Totalview programming tools for IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputers with a million processing cores or more.

The IBM Blue Gene/Q pushes the edge of technology by providing a leadership-class supercomputer that has a homogenous multi-core architecture and relatively low power consumption. On the June 2012 TOP500® list of supercomputers, four of the top ten supercomputers were Blue Gene/Q’s. Since February 2012, TotalView users at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which was named the top supercomputer on the list, have been utilizing a pre-release version of the TotalView debugger for porting codes to take advantage of the new system. TotalView has a precedent of being the code and memory debugger of choice with users of IBM Blue Gene supercomputers, including JuQueen, the Blue Gene/Q at Forschungszentrum Jülich.”

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Video: Using Moab Node-sets to Improve Job Scheduling

By Ralph | Published December 10, 2012

In this video from the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12, Gabriel Mateescu from Virginia Tech presents: Using Moab Node-sets to Improve Job Scheduling.

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Video: Community HPC Clusters at Purdue University

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 10, 2012

In this video from the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12, Andrew Howard from Purdue discusses how the community cluster program has moved forward with the help of Moab software at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.

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Realizing Energy Efficient Scheduling in a Network of Data Centers

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 9, 2012

In this video from the Adaptive Computing booth at SC12, Dr. Bastian Koller from the HLRS HPC Center in Stuttgart presents: Realizing Energy Efficient Scheduling in a Network of Data Centers.


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Adaptive Computing Leverages TORQUE to Manage Intel Xeon Phi Resources

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 8, 2012

In this video from SC12, Nick Ihli from Adaptive Computing demonstrates how the company’s Torque resource manager works with Intel Xeon Phi. By relaying Intel Xeon Phi instrumentation such as memory availability to the company’s Moab workload manager, the system is able to schedule coprocessor resources efficiently.

With the amazing capabilities of the latest supercomputing coprocessors such as the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, it’s vital to make it as simple as possible to integrate them into existing supercomputers,” noted Robert Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing. “The latest iteration of Moab was designed to maximize the investment being made by today’s HPC providers.”


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ATK Aerospace Taps PBS Pro Supercomputing at SC12

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 7, 2012

In this video from SC12, Ramesh Krishnan from ATK Aerospace describes how the company uses supercomputing resources managed by PBS Pro to simulate, test, and build better and safer products.

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Chinese Supercomputer Vendor Sugon Sponsors SC12 Student Cluster Challenge

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 7, 2012

In this video from SC12, Sha Chaoqun from Sugon describes the company’s products for high performance computing. As a leading Chinese server vendor, Sugon helped sponsor the SC12 Student Cluster Challenge.


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