In HPC, speed is everything. Join Univa’s Bill Bryce, VP Products for an all new webinar about how to make Grid Engine faster. You’ll learn about Univa Grid Engine 8.1 and the new features that translate into speed and productivity — and how they affect your business.
Each webinar will be less than 30 minutes, so you can get the practical information you need quickly.
- Thursday, May 24: 13:00 – 13:30 (EDT / UTC/GMT -5 hours)
- Thursday, June 15: 10:00- 10:30 (CEST/ UTC / GMT +1 hour)
In this podcast, Michelle Butler from NCSA and Molly Rector from Spectra Logic discuss the massive tape storage system that is being deployed for the 10 Petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer. As announced this week, the Blue Waters system will be one of the world’s largest active file repositories stored on tape media and will scale to a capacity of 380 raw petabytes within the first two years of operation.
NCSA designed Blue Waters to be one of the largest, most powerful supercomputing ecosystems in the world,” said Bill Kramer deputy director of the Blue Waters project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The Spectra Logic T-Finity met our rigorous requirements with its high enterprise-level performance, ready data accessibility and massively scalable capacity. We are confident it will provide our user community with fast, reliable access to the massive volumes of critical data stored within Blue Waters’ Petascale near-line file repository.”
Spectra T-Finity tape libraries will provide the Blue Waters project with the ability to keep all near-line data accessible in an active repository, perform automated data integrity verification for the data store, and deliver high performance read/write rates of up to 2.2 PBs per hour utilizing enterprise TS1140 Technology tape drives.
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In this podcast, Jeff Denworth from DDN provides details on the company’s recent announcement that their Web Object Scaler (WOS) will support Open Compute server and storage platforms in cooperation with the Open Compute Project.
Historically, there has not been an industry movement around standardizing and driving the adoption of mass-market hyperscale hardware technology,” said Jean-Luc Chatelain, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Technology, DDN. “With the new OCP storage hardware specification, DDN is able to focus its cloud storage efforts and investments on the software intelligence that drives today’s business and social connection. The Open Compute movement allows us to harness the power of crowd-sourced hardware design and a highly optimized supply chain to drive the best value for our customers.”
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In this slidecast, Patrick Wohlschlegel from Allinea Software describes the company’s advanced parallel debugging capabilities.
Our mission is to make it easier for software developers and scientists to make their software scale up to take full advantage of current and emerging parallel computer systems. We do this by developing innovative tools that ensure correctness and optimization of parallel codes, and we are recognized as a leader and innovator in our market. We created the world’s first petascale debugger - allowing users for the first time to debug at any scale. We also developed the first hybrid GPU debugger - enabling simultaneous debugging across multiple architectures in the same tool.”
As announced recently, the Allinea DDT software is being used by the NCSA Blue Waters team fix their bugs at full scale and exploit the maximum computational power.
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In this podcast, Mike Bernhardt from The Exascale Report sits down with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro to discuss the company’s continuing mission as a systems company. As reported here, Cray recently announced that Intel has acquired Cray’s interconnect technology, a move that has puzzled some media pundits.
Contrary to misleading rumors – Cray continues Its focus as a systems company. Intel and Cray should be applauded for smart, strategic business decision. A number of publications have voiced their opinions that Cray is shifting its focus and strategic direction to software. Some public comments have even gone as far as stating that Cray is becoming a software company.
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In this video, Jim Ryan and Rupert Dance from the Open Fabrics Alliance present: OFA Distribution Updates to OpenFabrics Software (OFS).
With these changes by the OFA, the OpenFabrics RDMA Software, also known as OFED, is moving into the mainstream Linux kernel and into the distribution’s user space environments,” said Doug Ledford, lead engineer for RDMA technologies, Red Hat, Inc. “This will eliminate the need for users to download a separate OFS stack to put on top of their operating system of choice, increase the quality and ubiquity of RDMA stacks across all Linux distributions, and help the role of OFS move from being an add‐on item to an integral part of the core RDMA provider in every Linux operating system.”
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In this slidecast, Shaun Walsh from Emulex and Nan Boden from Myricom present: High Performance Networking Solutions. Today Emulex announced its bringing its new family of OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Network Xceleration solutions to market in partnership with Myricom.
Partnering with Emulex allows Myricom to bring its unique high performance networking software solutions for specific vertical market applications to a broader market,” said Dr. Nan Boden, chief executive officer, Myricom. “Emulex’s market strength and industry-leading Ethernet road map combined with Myricom’s ultra-low latency performance, lossless packet capture/injection and traffic shaping technology enables the two companies to provide best-of-breed HPC networking.”
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In this slidecast, Todd Wilde from Mellanox presents: Scalable HPC New Accelerations for Parallel Programming Languages over InfiniBand.
This presentation will explore new advancements Mellanox has developed in increasing the performance and scalability of parallel programs over InfiniBand. These include Fabric Collectives Accelerator (FCA), and Mellanox Messaging Accelerations (MXM). In addition, the webinar will provide an overview of the parallel programming libraries that are using these accelerations, including the new ScalableSHMEM and ScalableUPC PGAS libraries that Mellanox has recently introduced to run over InfiniBand.”
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In this slidecast, Convey CEO Bruce Toal presents: HC-2: Next Generation Hybrid Core.
Convey’s innovative hybrid-core architecture pairs classic Intel processors with a coprocessor comprised of FPGAs. Particular algorithms—DNA sequence assembly, for example—are optimized and translated into code that’s loadable onto the FPGAs at runtime, greatly accelerating performance-critical applications. The new Convey HC-2 systems increase application performance 2-3 times over previous generations of Convey servers and orders of magnitude over commodity servers.
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In this slidecast, Gary Tyreman from Univa presents an overview of Univa Grid Engine.
Univa Grid Engine is the next generation product that Sun Grid Engine users have been waiting for. Our customers save time and money through increased uptime, and with our innovative feature and product evolution they can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of running Grid Engine.”
In related news, today the company announced the release of Univa Grid Engine 8.1.
Companies like Jeppesen rely on the Univa Grid Engine to manage mission-critical applications while also reducing the total cost of ownership,” said Gary Tyreman, president and CEO Univa Corporation. “With the introduction of Univa Grid Engine Version 8.1, our third production release within the last 12 months, Univa has again proven its ability to support the largest sites in the world and to simultaneously deliver significant new products and features. The proof is in our execution for our customers. Univa provides seamless evolution for Grid Engine sites.”
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Mike Bernhardt from The Exascale Report has released the second installment of his Research HPC podcast series featuring key voices from the Intel Labs think tank.
In this podcast, Mike discusses Near Threshold Voltage processing with Vivek De, an Intel Fellow and Director of Circuit Technology Research at Intel Labs. NTV processing is a research area that holds tremendous promise for more efficient power management, and is applicable to numerous future computing applications ranging from mobile applications to HPC to exascale systems.
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In this podcast, Bright Computing Founder and CEO Matthijs van Leeuwen describes how the company is taking cluster management to a new level.
Bright Cluster Manager is a comprehensive cluster management solution for managing all types of HPC clusters and server farms, including CPU and GPU clusters, storage and database clusters, and big data Hadoop clusters. Bright also manages your clusters in the cloud.
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In this slidecast, Floyd Christofferson from SGI presents: SGI NAS - Scalable, Modular Open Storage. The company has combined a number of leading-edge, open technologies including ZFS and DTrace to accelerate network attached storage.
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In this video, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research leads a panel discussion on current issues facing the high performance computing community. Recorded March 28, 2012 at the National HPCC conference in Newport.
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Be sure to join us for the next edition of Analyst Crossfire at the ISC’12 Conference in Hamburg on June 21, 2012.
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