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In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Doug Oucharek from Intel presents an Update on Lustre, OpenSFS, and FastForward InfiniBand.
Download the slides (PDF). You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.
In related news, slides from LUG 2013 are now posted.
Over at Admin HPC, Douglas Eadline writes that Hadoop could be the new corporate HPC for Big Data.
The growth of Hadoop and the hardware on which it runs has been increasing. Certainly it can be seen as a subset of HPC, offering a single yet powerful algorithm that has been optimized for a large number of commodity servers, with some crossover even into technical computing that could see further growth as things like YARN begin to give existing Hadoop clusters more HPC capabilities. Many companies are finding Hadoop to be the new Corporate HPC for big data.
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In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Robert Read from Intel presents: Lustre on Amazon Web Services.
Download the slides (PDF). You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.
In this video from the 2013 GPU Technology Conference, Dustin Franklin from GE Intelligent Platforms presents: GPUDirect Support for RDMA and Green Multi-GPU Architectures. View the GE Presentation Slides on Slideshare.
This talk caused quite a stir and we have done a number of posts on it including a Radio Free HPC podcast.
Note that all presentation videos and slides from the GPU Technology Conference are now available on-demand.
The new Allinea DDT 4.0 release is designed to make it easier for scientists to debug and optimize HPC code even when they’re on the road.
We’ve got a lot of academics, lab people, and industry people who are on the road a lot for conferences and meetings. It’s important for them to be able to work remotely,” says David Bernholdt, a senior computational scientist in R&D at ORNL. “Instead of having to put statements in the code, recompile, reset, and go through this whole long cycle, they’ll be able to pop up their clients on their laptops and figure out what’s going on right away.”
The release of Allinea DDT 4.0 includes native remote clients for Linux, Windows and Mac. These clients allow debugging of HPC applications, wherever they are hosted – on nationwide HPC resources or out in the rapidly growing HPC Cloud.
The new native client approach is paying dividends for users. “The advantage of a true native client is in the response times,” adds Chris January, VP Engineering at Allinea, “when you’re debugging code on a cluster you don’t want a slow connection to make you step twice or accidentally delete breakpoints. Only a native client can respond quickly enough to keep users in complete control.”
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In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Omkar Kulkarni from Intel presents: Hadoop MapReduce over Lustre.
Download the slides (PDF).You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.
Today Rogue Wave Software announced that TotalView has been selected by both the University of Luxembourg and University of Strasbourg to debug complex, multi-threaded applications. TotalView is a scalable and intuitive debugger for parallel applications written in C, C++, and Fortran. Designed to improve developer productivity, TotalView simplifies and shortens the process of developing, debugging, and optimizing complex applications.
TotalView enables our research teams to develop and debug all of their applications faster, from simple prototypes to advanced, multi-threaded applications,” stated Sébastien Varrette, manager of the HPC department of the University of Luxembourg. “Our teams are experts in bioinformatics and engineering, but not supercomputers. With TotalView, they can leverage the easy-to-use, advanced debugging features to quickly debug their applications, so they can focus on their research goals.”
Already impressed by TotalView’s ability to significantly shorten debugging cycles, the HPC Center of the University of Strasbourg has selected TotalView for several new MPI and OpenMP applications. TotalView will be deployed on a NEC machine which is a Linux cluster comprised of NEC HPC1812Rd-2 InfiniBand compute nodes and NEC GPS12G4Rd-2 hybrid compute nodes with Nvidia Kepler cards.
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In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Paul Grun from Cray presents: Evolving OFS for the Modern World – A Challenge to Attendees.
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In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Josh Judd from Warp Mechanics presents: Warp Mechanics ZFS Array.
The WARP Mechanics 39830 is a turnkey network-attached non-volatile RAM + SSD system with industry-leading price, performance, and scalability. This system maximizes the IOPs performance for the most demanding application profiles. It is an ultra-dense space and power saving solution. This is optimal for large-scale IO intensive workloads with large live data sets. The 50x high capacity 2TB SSD modules per 4U enclosure are configured into five 10-disk RAID 6 sets to maximize protection and performance. Each RAID set has a two NV-RAM modules serving as write cache. These RAID sets are added to the overall ZFS storage pool and can be allocated to a nearly limitless number of any sized volumes presented to hosts. This yields a flexible 100TB of usable RAID protected SSD storage.
Download the slides (PDF). Check out more Lustre presentation videos at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.
Computational scientists are invited to register for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC). The event will take place in the greater Chicago area from July 28-August 9, 2013.
The program provides intensive hands-on training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems and the leadership-class computing systems of the future. As a bridge to that future, this two-week program to be held in suburban Chicago fills the gap that exists in the training computational scientists typically receive through formal education or other shorter courses.
Applications are currently being accepted for the program. The deadline for applying is May 22, 2013. Read the Full Story.
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Eric Barton from Intel presents: Lustre – Fast Forward to Exascale.
Back in July 2012, Whamcloud was awarded the Storage and I/O Research & Development subcontract for the Department of Energy’s FastForward program. Shortly afterward, the company was acquired by Intel. The two-year contract scope includes key R&D necessary for a new object storage paradigm for HPC exascale computing, and the developed technology will also address next-generation storage mechanisms required by the Big Data market.
The subcontract incorporates application I/O expertise from the HDF Group, system I/O and I/O aggregation expertise from EMC Corporation, object storage expertise from DDN, and scale testing facilities from Cray, teamed with file system, architecture, and project management skills from Whamcloud. All components developed in the project will be open sourced and benefit the entire Lustre community.
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In this video from LUG 2013, Jeff Johnson from Startup Aeon Computing presents an overview of the company’s innovative Lustre storage solutions.
There are many storage solutions available in the market but not all of them do Lustre well. We set out to design a Lustre platform that was good at Lustre data and I/O profiles. Part of that design, in addition to performance, is that it follows Aeon Computing’s business philosophy in that there is no unnecessary, extraneous bull___t that gets in the way.
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In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Bobbie LInd from Intel presents: Lustre Tuning Parameters.
Download the slides (PDF). Learn more at the Whamcloud Blog or check out more presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Brent Gorda from Intel presents an overview of Lustre Activities at the Intel High Performance Data Division.
Download the slides (PDF). Learn more at the Whamcloud Blog or check out more presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Peter Jones from Intel presents: Lustre Releases.
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