In this Intel Chip Chat from SC11, Intel’s Debra Goldfarb describes how high performance computing touches our daily lives–everything from food production to car designs, weather modeling, and materials sciences. Download the MP3.
Podcast: Opscode Users to Gather for First-Ever #ChefConf Event
In this podcast, Jesse Robbins from OpsCode talks about the new #ChefConf event coming up May 15-17, 2012 in San Francisco. The event will bring together hundreds of users of Chef, an open-source systems integration framework built specifically for automating the cloud.
Tens of thousands of people and thousands of companies use Opscode Chef to automate, manage and scale their infrastructure,” said Jesse Robbins, co-chair of #ChefConf, and co-founder and chief community officer of Opscode. “This ability is now a critical skill for every software developer, systems engineer and IT professional who must manage ever-increasing scale and complexity.”
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Podcast: Turning Up Performance Profiling with Intel VTune Amplifier XE
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Allyson Klein and Ramesh Peri discuss developments and benefits of Intel Vtune Amplifier XE, a performance analysis tool for checking app performance on Intel processors. Download the MP3.
Slidecast: APAX Application Acceleration from Samplify
In this slidecast, Allan Evans and Al Wegener present: APAX Application Acceleration. Samplify Systems is leveraging their advanced compression algorithms to reduce the amount of data that needs to be moved and stored in high performance computing. Read the Full Story.
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Slidecast: Wildpackets – Network Forensics 101
In this slidecast, Jay Botelho from Wildpackets describes how network forensics works and how the company’s provides enterprise-wide network monitoring and reporting.
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Video: Puppet Labs Datacenter Automation
In this video, Luke Kanies of Puppet Labs describes the company’s datacenter automation and configuration management tool..
Puppet Labs’ IT automation software enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling from handfuls of nodes on-premise to tens of thousands in the cloud. Puppet powers thousands of companies, including Twitter, Yelp, eBay, Zynga, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Google, Disney, Citrix, Oracle, and Viacom.
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Podcast: Interview with Dr. Bernd Mohr on the ISC’s Popular Crash Course on HPC
In this podcast, I interview Dr. Bernd Mohr from the Jülich Supercomputer Center. Every year at the ISC International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, Dr. Mohr conducts a popular half-day Crash Course on High Performance Computing to help familiarize conference attendees with all the terminology we bat around here in supercomputing circles.
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Slidecast: IPSoft Overview – Autonomic IT Management
In this video, Jonathan Crane presents: IPSoft Overview - Autonomic IT Management. Learn more at: http://ipsoft.com
The IT infrastructure of tomorrow will not be managed by people, but by expert systems.
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Slidecast: Versant JPA Technical Preview Tailor-Made for Big Data
In this video, Dirk Bartels from Versant presents: JPA Technical Preview.
The Java Persistence API is a Java programming language framework managing relational data in applications using Java Standard Edition and Java Enterprise Edition. To maximize performance, the Versant JPA has native object persistence API and storage specifically designed for Big Data and Analytics. As a technical preview for developers, the Versant JPA is now available for download.
Every database can store simple rows; many can do that fast. Every database can retrieve simple rows; many can do that fast. But … The world is not made of simple rows. The world is complex and so are real world applications and their data models. Trying to break complex scenarios into simple rows and columns will either result in a tremendous amount of code, or the result will suffer from performance issues (or both). With Versant Object Database (VOD) one can store and retrieve complex objects instead of simple rows. And, one can do that really fast. So for complex scenarios, it is clearly the better choice.
But wait…Why, then, doesn’t everybody use VOD? And here we had a problem: Everybody (not really everybody, but you get the point) speaks SQL. Java developers speak JPA. Nobody (again not literally) speaks JVI (I guess, most of you don’t even know what JVI means). Therefore, we’re making it easy for Java developers to talk to VOD in their language: JPA.
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Slidecast: MCOpt – Intelligent Resource Management from eXludus
In this slidecast, Dale Geldart from eXludus presents: MCOpt - Intelligent Resource Management.
eXludus’ MCOPt is based upon operational research principles and advanced math techniques, not dissimilar from queuing theory techniques used within large scale traffic management problems. MCOPt dynamically and continuously creates an optimal processing schedule for applications such that resource utilization is maximized and the risk of resource conflict or interference is minimized.
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Slidecast: Clustered Systems Introduces Remarkable 100KW Compute Rack
In this slidecast, Phil Hughes from Clustered Systems presents: The 100KW Rack Introduction. Using a grant from the US Dept. of Energy, the company has developed a highly dense compute rack with a PCI-E interconnect and an extremely efficient warm-water cooling system.
The company estimates that a completely operational Petaflop compute facility using the new technology could be built for approximately $20 Million USD. To be available through OEM partners, first shipments will likely start in 2Q2012, and SLAC will deploy the first system.
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Podcast: Is There a Moore’s Law for Energy Efficiency?
In this IEEE podcast, Stanford’s Jonathan Koomey discusses his recent paper looking at the Moore’s Law–like exponential progress in the energy efficiency of computers over the past six decades.
So, if these trends continue—and my friends at Intel say that they have at least another 10 years of these performance and efficiency trends improving—if they continue, they basically bode well for the increased sophistication and lower-power use of mobile computing centers and controls. So doubling every year and a half means over the course of 10 years, the efficiency of computers will go up by a factor of 100. So that means that we will have the ability to have more and more mobile centers that use less and less power to collect information and also to bring it back to some wireless base station. The people who are doing the most interesting work now are focused on ultralow power computing that was never before possible. And so Josh Smith, who’s at Intel and also the University of Washington, is working with mobile centers that have no power source. No battery. They use the power from stray television and radio signals to power themselves. And that means that you’re free from the constraint of having to have a power source.
RCE Podcast: XSEDE Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withPhil Blood of the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC) about XSEDE the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
Slidecast: PerfectSearch – Big Data Search
In this slidecast, Tim Stay from PerfectSearch describes the company’s ultra-efficient search appliance software that is tailor-made for Big Data.
PerfectSearch’s patented software enables search up to a billion documents using a single private cloud appliance. Compared to other solutions that can require more than 10 times the number of servers, the PerfectSearch powered by Fujitsu solution is powerful and economical—even compared to open-source solutions, with lower equipment cost and fewer servers that reduce energy, replacement and administrative costs. Companies now have a cost-effective solution to index and search all content is searchable with a single query. The PerfectSearch powered by Fujitsu appliance uses unique technology that uses disk based indexing rather than memory, requiring a fraction of the hardware—realizing up to a 90% reduction in search-related hardware. These innovations built into the solution permit high-speed retrieval, drastically reduced hardware footprints, and extensive customization.
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Slidecast: Eurocom – High Performance Mobile Workstations & Mobile Servers
In this slidecast, Mark Bialic from Eurocom presents: High Performance Mobile Workstations & Mobile Servers.
Engineering on the go represents the reality of many of today’s professionals,” says Mark Bialic, president of Eurocom. He notes that security was a primary justification for the concept. “Many of our customers on a distant project can’t trust that they’re protecting their intellectual property. They can’t have that confidence using a local system or network.”
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