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I’ve been shooting interviews non-stop with HPC users and vendors here in Hamburg. In the meantime, Day 1 of ISC’12 brought a virtual blizzard of news to my inbox . What to do? Here’s the HPC News with Snark for June 19, 2011.

• The Active Archive Alliance announced that the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute has implemented a 400TB active archive to support the exponential growth of its research data.
• Adaptive Computing announced major updates to its Moab HPC Suite that enhance workload management and high performance computing, including improved topology-based scheduling, integration with third-party technology, and flexible accounting and visibility.
• Allinea Software announced early support for future Intel Xeon Phi products based on the MIC architecture.
• Altair is demonstrating the “world’s first commercial applications (RADIOSS and PBS Professional) running on a live Intel Phi system” in the Intel booth at ISC this week.
• Convey Computer has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board, a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for the most popular shared-memory parallel programming model in use today.
• Calxeda has published impressive benchmarks on their ARM-based server, a machine that only consumes 5 Watts!
• eXludus is demonstrating how Micro-Virtualization helps HPC get more performance, reliability & efficiency from multicore systems.
• Intel launched the Xeon Phi brand name for their upcoming co-processors based on the MIC architecture. We can expect general availability sometime later this year, but until then there is no word on pricing.
• Mellanox announced that InfiniBand now leads TOP500 as most-used interconnect.
• Nvidia announced that German scientists are using their GPUs to unlock the secrets of the brain.
• RSC Group out of Russia is showcasing highly efficient liquid cooling at their ISC’12 booth along with a new product line-up based on RSC Tornado architecture.
• Supermicro rolled out their Fat Twin systems, which the company is describing as the future of power-efficient supercomputing.
• T-Platforms announced a new desk side supercomputer and a collaboration with CSC to deliver a prototype HPC architecture to PRACE.

In case you missed them, here are some recent highlights from our other inside* publications:

• Interview: Grant Cardone on the 10x Rule of Success. Rich Brueckner from inside-Startups discusses the secrets to goal setting with author Grant Cardone.
• Slidecast: Startup Develops Crowd-sourced “Call to Action” Engagements. Engage.Me technology enables clients to create engaging and actionable experiences for consumers to participate in that help build brand ambassadors.

• Feature: YarcData Appliance Cranks through High Performance Analytics. Phillip Howard writes that uRiKA from Cray is to graph databases what Netezza was to data warehousing when it first appeared on the market: appliance-based, scalable (uRiKA more so) and focused solely on high-performance analytics.
• News: Mellanox Partners to Speed New Hadoop Appliance. PHAT-DATA40G is a collaborative effort with industry technology leaders to build the highest-performing Hadoop solution running on optimized hardware, with ease of use and simplified deployment as a shared vision.

• Video: Panel: HP Cloud Services Opens Public Beta. The new HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network services can now all be accessed by the public. All the services will be offered on an hourly pay-as-you-go model.
• Slidecast: High Performance Networking Solutions from Emulex & Myricom. Emulex is bringing its new family of OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Network Xceleration solutions to market in partnership with Myricom.

We had a fantastic time in Austin at LUG 2012 this week, and we’re looking forward to doing a wrap-up show soon. In case you missed them, here are some recent highlights our inside* publications:

• Slidecast: MongoDB Overview. Nosh Petigara from 10Gen presents and overview of MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind.
• Slidecast: IBM’s Big Data Platform. Big Blue has spent $Billions to augment its analytics capabilities. In this slidecast, IBM’s David Corrigan describes the company’s wide offerings for Big Data.

• Video: Moab Cloud Suite – HP Cloud Service Automation Edition. Nathan Wells from Adaptive Computing demonstrates how the company’s products work seamlessly with the HP Cloud.

• Slidecast: Introducing Bocada VPconnect – Virtual and Physical Data Protection Management. In most datacenters, the Virtual and Bare Metal IT management is completely separate. Bocada CEO Nancy Hurley shows how the company’s VPconnect software lets you manage both worlds from a single pane of glass.

• Feature: Portland Gets its Own SXSW-Type Startup Conference with PDX. Keep Portland weird and wired.
• Video: Return Guru Helps You Get Your Money Back. Returns are a pain, but they don’t have to be if you use this Startup.

In case you missed them, here are some highlights our inside* publications this week:

• Slidecast: Flow Corporation Real-Time Data Solutions. The Flow Platform is cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) built on top of a real-time architecture that enables on-demand stream processing, data routing, and interoperability across the entire application landscape.
• Interview: Versant’s Dirk Bartels on Accelerating Big Data. Versant’s object database management software speeds navigation in graph-oriented real-time data.

• Slidecast: Infinitely Virtual – Security and Reliability in the Cloud. Adam Stern presents an overview of the company’s hosted virtual dedicated server and cloud computing technologies.
• Slidecast: Avere Unveils Edge Filer and New Architecture for NAS. With the introduction of the Edge filer, Avere is well positioned to offer an alternative model to solve some of the biggest technological and business challenges of NAS deployments.

• Video: Portland Development Commission Looks at PDX Startups. Learn why venture capital has reached record levels in the Northwest in the past two years.
• Video: Tough Mudder – How to Build a $70 Million Company in Two Years. Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie.

• Interview: Whamcloud Gears Lustre for the Enterprise to Exascale. Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda discusses how the company is speeding development of the Lustre open source parallel file system.
• Video: HPC Analyst Crossfire – Live from the National HPCC Conference 2012. Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research leads a panel discussion on current issues facing the high performance computing community.

We had an amazing time in Lugano at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop, but there was a lot else going on here on inside* publications this week:

• Slidecast: Pentaho Big Data Update. In this episode of the Rich Report, Pentaho CEO Quentin Gallivan describes the company’s popular business analytics solutions.
• Guest Feature: Big Data Software – More Than Just Analytics. Kevin Dudak from Spectra Logic reminds us that Big Data is more than just Hadoop.

• Feature: Brueckner to Host Big Data HPC Panel at Structure: Data in New York. Our Big Apple discussion will feature Gary Grider, Deputy Division Leader at LANL and Garth Gibson from Panasas.

• Podcast: Big Science Challenge Awards Time on 30,000-core AWS Cluster. As the winner, Victor Ruotti from the Morgridge Institute for Research will advance stem cell research with the power of Cycle Cloud and AWS.
• Video: Challenges in Establishment of Open Cloud Markets. This presentation is a fascinating mix of anthropology, economics, and computer science. Highly recommended.

• Video: X-ARM Startup Launches “Toughest 3 Minutes in Sports”. Think UFC fighting meets Arm Wrestling on an episode of Spartacus.
• Video: License123 Keeps Your Small Business in Compliance. Got all your business permits? Check again with this new Startup.

• Slidecast:Announcing Moab HPC Suite 7.0. Chad Harrington from Adaptive Computing describes how TORQUE scaleability has jumped to millions of jobs and 100K+ nodes with 10K+ users.
• Interview: Michael Resch on the Hermit Super at HLRS. As the fastest supercomputer in Germany, Hermit may also be the first Petaflop industrial supercomputer.

In case you missed them, here are some highlights our inside* publications this week:

• Feature: Big Data for Big Careers – P&G Quads Down on Analytics Expertise. Dan Olds looks at why Proctor & Gamble is ramping up analytics in a big way while cutting IT spending elsewhere.
• Jobs: Big Data Career Opportunities Abound. Our inside-BigData Job Board is lit up with positions open for Data Scientists.

• Video: Amazing Statistics of 1 Minute on the Internet. Intel’s launch of Sandy Bridge E5 kicked off with this flyby of world bandwidth.
• Video: Crash Course In Open Source Cloud Computing. Mark Hinkle from CloudStack presents at SouthEast LinuxFest.

• Slidecast: BrandYourself Startup Lets You Control Your Own Google Results. Now you can control what people see when they Google your name.
• Video: Vintage Steve Jobs Presentation on the Founding of Apple. Recorded in 1980, this rare video show Jobs discussing the founding of Apple Computer.

• Video: PGI’s Michael Wolfe on Heterogeneous Programming. Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group talks parallel programming for HPC.
• Recap: Israel HPC Conference, on to Lugano HPC Workshop Next Week. A set of great talks on HPC awaits.

In case you missed them, here are some highlights our inside* publications this week:

• Video: Big Data to Grow to $50B Market by 2017. Wikibon’s new study shows the Big Data market has already topped $5B.
• Podcast: Research HPC from Intel Labs Looks at Graph Computing. In his first program, Mike Bernhardt discusses the Graph 500 with Pradeep Dubey, a senior principal engineer and Director of the Parallel Computing Lab (PCL) within Intel Labs.

• Slidecast: ExtraHop: The Evolution of Application Performance Management (APM). ExtraHop Networks provides agentless, network-based application performance management (APM) solutions to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail.
• Video: OnApp Steps Up with Worldwide Federated Cloud. The OnApp CDN Federation is a global network of CDN PoPs, and a marketplace where you can buy and sell CDN capacity on demand.
  

• Video: Entrepreneurs Invent the Future Aboard the StartupBus. There’s still room for new riders in 2012 with 10 busses from all over the USA.

• Podcast: Cycle Computing Powers Hyperscale Bioinformatics on Demand. Cycle Computing is getting traction in the bioinformatics space, where their core competency in utility supercomputing is helping scientists expand their research horizons.
• Demo: HyperWorks Compute Manager from Altair. The integration of Altair’s HyperWorks simulation tools with PBS Works workload management solutions increases high-performance computing productivity.

In case you missed them, here are some highlights our inside* publications this week:

• Slidecast: Objectivity Provides Real-time Relationship Analytics for Big Data. Brian Clark and Leon Guzenda from Objectivity discuss new InfiniteGraph features designed to accelerate application development.
• Feature: HP Hornswoggled? Will Autonomy Purchase Pay Off?. Dan Olds, our Chief Editor at inside-BigData looks at HP’s acquisition of Autonomy and asks, “Where’s the Beef?”
• Demo Video: One-Click HPCC Thor Cluster on AWS. Charles Kaminski from Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions demonstrates how easy it is to launch an HPCC Thor Cluster on AWS for Big Data analytics.

• Video: Nicira Startup Virtualizes All Things Cloud. Martin Casado from Nicira describes the company’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP), and OpenFlow solution that takes workloads and puts them in a world where everything they see is virtual.

• Slidecast:Spotlight TMS Helps You Get the Most From Your Tickets. Did you know that 43 percent of sports tickets never make it out of the desk drawer? Tony Knopp from Spotlight TMS describes how the company helps corporate ticket buyers to get the most from their purchases.

• Podcast: Swift Engineering Moves Beyond the Wind Tunnel with Cray and Platform. A small company makes a big move to supercomputing.
• Interview: T-Platforms on the Russian Road to Exascale. The Russian HPC vendor has plans to build a 10 Petaflop system.
• Interview: ClusterVision Delivers a Total Cluster Lifecycle. Europe’s HPC experts have built a reputation for solid engineering and integration.