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Podcast: New Exascale Report Tracks the Future
In this podcast, I interview John West and Mike Bernhardt, founders of The Exascale Report. This new, subscription-based publication offers insider reporting on the technologies and initiatives that are in the works for Exascale computing in the coming decade.
If you look at Exascale efforts internationally, you really find very little awareness among the different groups about what other people are doing,” said John E. West, co-founder of The Exascale Report. “In many cases, it’s not only that a group’s awareness is limited to their own country, it’s limited to their own project. Because these are very difficult to fund, very intensive scientific and engineering efforts to build these computers and the people working on this stuff are really just very busy and very
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Getting to exascale: a podcast interview with Intel’s chief supercomputing architect
This podcast is part of the exclusive video, audio, and feature series at insideHPC.com called HPC in 2010, a look ahead at the technologies, issues, and opportunities our community will be facing in 2010. In this installment of the series, I talk to Bill Camp, the Chief Supercomputing Architect at Intel.
Bill refers to himself as Mr. Exascale at Intel, and his thinking goes all the way from transistors to software. In this conversation, recorded on the show floor during SC09 in Portland, Bill and I talk about the challenges of getting to exascale, the relationship of exascale technologies to commodity processing, and much more. Is Intel thinking about a …
Green HPC Podcast Episode 6: Green technologies of the future
There is a lot of activity — and a lot of hype! — today around the ways in which vendors and large supercomputing centers are trying to reduce their power usage while still getting useful work done. But there is only so much you can do adapting today’s technology, and to truly transform our approach to energy use in HPC we will need new technologies for operations and instrumentation, control system software, operating systems, job schedulers, computational algorithms, chip design, networking, and in many other areas.
In this episode we talk with companies and supercomputing centers at the forefront of thinking today about the new technologies we’ll need tomorrow. In our conversations we touch on the full spectrum of green technologies, from “bits to buildings” as …
Episode 5 of the green HPC podcast series: Turning up the heat
Typical machine rooms today operate between 20 and 25 degrees C, about 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, an operating range comes from a time when it was the people in the room that needed cooling, not the computers. And even experienced datacenter managers spend a lot of time and energy building clusters out of servers with components they don’t need, in buildings that are way cleaner than they need to be.
In this episode we talk with Argonne’s Pete Beckman and Microsoft’s Christian Belady about the specific ways in which their organizations are working with their datacenter and computer hardware vendors to improve operations efficiency. These guys are using a proactive, measurements-based approach to guide them toward more effective operations without voiding their warranties or impacting …
Live from the show floor with the InfiniBand Trade Association
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 on some of the drivers of that adoption, the close connections of IB to PCI-e, the relationship between the The OpenFabrics Alliance and the IBTA, and how a book may hold the secret to breaking IB out of its HPC stronghold and into broader IT adoption.
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Live from the show floor with Dell: a discussion about Cray, competition, and partnerships in HPC
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 the system, our conversation was pretty wide-ranging over the business aspects of this deal, touching on everything from why Dell (which builds hardware) is partnering with Cray to how you get a product like this to customers who don’t identify with HPC and how the brand exposure doesn’t hurt (rather …
Live from the show floor with Adaptive Computing
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 Toronto’s SciNet Consortium (interestingly, they paid for Moab in the first month based on energy savings alone).
This one has some blackberry noise for a few seconds about two-thirds of the way through — sorry. Didn’t hear it at the time.
Listen to the interview [audio:http://insidehpc.com/media/SC09/adaptive.mp3]…
Live from the show floor with Avere Systems
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 then he walks me through the story of his company and where his product is positioned in the storage acceleration market space. Avere’s appliance sits in between your storage and your server and, the company hopes, enables you to separate decisions about performance from decisions about capacity. In terms of …
Live from the show floor with Cycle Computing
On Monday while the exhibit floor was still under construction I stopped by Cycle Computing’s booth to talk with Jason Stowe, the CEO of Cycle Computing. To be honest, I went to the Cycle Computing booth thinking that there wasn’t going to be much there of interest to me. But in one of those great surprises that keeps me coming back to SC each year, I came away thinking there was a lot to the company’s technology. With customers from the very large (Lockheed Martin and Johnson&Johnson, among others) to very small start-ups, Cycle is helping customers take advantage of computers they already have for HPC, as well as facilitating a move to the cloud for HPC use cases.
Live from the show floor with Microsoft
On Monday while the exhibit floor was still under construction I stopped by Microsoft’s booth, recorder in hand, to talk with Kyril Faenov, General Manager of Microsoft’s Technical Computing Group. It was an interesting chance to talk not only about the beta release of the latest version of Microsoft HPC Server, but also to get a walk-through of Microsoft’s strategy for HPC — from the desktop to Top10 systems and everything in between — including a petascale GPU system that the company is helping to deploy in the near future.
In the interview Kyril does touch on new software that Microsoft is announcing from the show
Today at Supercomputing 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate
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