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Video: The HPC Experiment – Paving the way to HPC as a Service

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:46:38 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Burak Yenier presents: The HPC Experiment – Paving the way to HPC as a Service.

For the 2nd Round of the HPC experiment, we will apply the cloud computing service model to workloads on remote Cluster Computing resources in the areas of HPC, Computer Aided Engineering, and the Life Sciences.

In related news, the HPC Experiment site has just added an online exhibit area as one-stop interactive service directory for Cloud users and service providers with focus on High Performance Computing, Big Data, Digital Manufacturing, and Computational Life Sciences.

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Video: IBM-DOME Microserver Demonstrator

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:55 +0000

While we may not get to Exascale by 2020, ground-breaking compute technologies for the SKA telescope are already under development (without involvement of the U.S. Government, by the way). In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Ronald P. Luijten from IBM Research presents: The IBM-DOME Microserver Demonstrator.

The computational and storage demands for the future Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope are signiﬁcant. Building on the experience gained with the collaboration between ASTRON and IBM with the Blue Gene based LOFAR correlator, ASTRON and IBM have now embarked on a public-private exascale computing research project aimed at solving the SKA computing challenges. This project, called DOME, investigates novel approaches to exascale computing, with a focus on energy efficient, streaming data processing, exascale storage, and nano-photonics. DOME will not only beneﬁt the SKA, but will also make the knowledge gained available to interested third parties via a Users Platform. The intention of the DOME project is to evolve into the global center of excellence for transporting, processing, storing and analyzing large amounts of data for minimal energy cost.”

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Slidecast: Teradata Rolls Out Intelligent Memory Technology

Rich Brueckner — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:43:45 +0000

In this slidecast, Scott Gnau from Teradata Labs presents: Teradata Intelligent Memory.

The introduction of Teradata Intelligent Memory allows our customers to exploit the performance of memory within Teradata Platforms, which extends our leadership position as the best performing data warehouse technology at the most competitive price,” said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs. “Teradata Intelligent Memory technology is built into the data warehouse and customers don’t have to buy a separate appliance. Additionally, Teradata enables its customers to buy and configure the exact amount of in-memory capability needed for critical workloads. It is unnecessary and impractical to keep all data in memory, because all data do not have the same value to justify being placed in expensive memory.”

How does Intelligent Memory work? This animation video does a good job of making this advanced technology look simple.

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Video: SGI Update from HPC User Forum

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:49 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Jill Matzke from SGI presents an update on the HPC customer activities including the new Pangea supercomputer at Total.

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Recent Advances in Overcoming the Red Shift for CFD Simulation Analytics

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:40 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Scott Imlay from Tecplot presents: Recent Advances in Overcoming the Red Shift for CFD Simulation Analytics.

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Video: An Overview of Mellanox in HPC

Rich Brueckner — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:32:43 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Scott Schultz from Mellanox presents an overview of Mellanox and HPC.

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Video: Future Directions for Intel Architecture

Rich Brueckner — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:04 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Stephen Wheat from Intel presents: Future Directions for IA … and more.

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Video: Why the Size of the Data Does Not Define Big Data

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:44:37 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, John Hengeveld from Intel presents: Big Data Use Cases – The Size of the Data does not define Big Data.

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Video: HPC in Astrophysics

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:34:31 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Don Lamb from the University of Chicago presents: HPC in Astrophysics.

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3D Electronic Model-Based Design at Gulfstream

Rich Brueckner — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40:23 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Jeff Kreide from Gulfstream presents: 3D Electronic Model-Based Design.

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Video: Petascale Supernova Simulation

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:34:32 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Bronson Messer from Oak Ridge National Laboratory presents: Petascale Supernova Simulation.

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Video: IDC HPC Market Update

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:16 +0000

In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Earl Joseph presents the IDC HPC Market Update.

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Video: Space Oddity from the International Space Station

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:20:11 +0000

Our Video Sunday feature continues with this rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity with vocals from Commander Chris Hadfield on board the international space station.

Hadfield’s son Evan writes: “He returns home in Soyuz in the early morning of the 14th, and this is his final video from Station. It is also, coincidentally, the first real music video ever recorded in space.”

Update: This video will soon surpass 7 million views You have to see this on an HD display. Incredible!

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Video: Managing and Monitoring a Scalable Lustre Infrastructure

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:06:00 +0000

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013, Makia Minich from Xyratex presents: Managing and Monitoring a Scalable Lustre Infrastructure. Download the slides (PDF) or check out our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

During his talk, Makia mentions an excellent presentation from John West entitled What’s Missing from HPC.

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Jeff Layton on Tools for Data Migration

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:37:29 +0000

Over at HPC Admin, Dell’s Jeff Layton writes that with today’s explosive data growth, at some point you will have to migrate data from one set of storage devices to another. To help move things along, he provides an overview of data migration tools.

At some point during this growth spurt, you will have to think about migrating your data from an old storage solution to a new one, but copying the data over isn’t as easy as it sounds. You would like to preserve the attributes of the data during the migration, including xattrs (extended attributes), and losing information such as file ownership or timestamps can cause havoc with projects. Plus, you have to pay attention to the same things for directories; they are just as important as the file themselves (remember that everything is a file in Linux). In this article, I wanted to present some possible tools for helping with data migration, and I covered just a few of them. However, I also wanted to take a few paragraphs to emphasize that you need to plan your data migration if you want to succeed.

As referred to in Layton’s article, this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 features Marc Stearman from LLNL presenting: Sequoia Data Migration Experiences. Download the slides (PDF).

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Special ISC’13 Session to Probe the Thinking behind Europe’s Human Brain Project

Ralph — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:09 +0000

In a special session at ISC’13, scientists working on the Human Brain Project will discuss their vision and roadmap for computing. Featuring Dr. Henry Markram of EPFL, the June 18 keynote will be entitled Supercomputing & the Human Brain Project – Following Brain Research & ICT on their 10-Year Quest.

The Human Brain Project, recently awarded a 10 year grant by the EU Commission, will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. Federating more than 80 European and international research institutions, the Human Brain Project is estimated to cost 1.19 billion euros. It will be coordinated at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, by neuroscientist Henry Markram with co-directors Karlheinz Meier of Heidelberg University, Germany, and Richard Frackowiak of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and the University of Lausanne. The project will also associate some important North American and Japanese partners.

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The ISC’13 conference takes place June 16-20 in Leipzig, Germany and discounted Early Registration ends May 15.

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Video: Aeon Computing Showcases Intelligent Disk Arrays with Lustre and ZFS

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:30:52 +0000

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013, Doug Johnson from Aeon Computing describes the company’s Hydra storage arrays that marry the speed of Lustre with the HA capabilities of ZFS.

The Hydra60 is a combination Lustre OSS (object storage server) and OST (object storage target) with two active/active failover nodes and shared storage in a single system chassis with an ultra dense 60 drive 6Gb SAS storage infrastructure. With a unified and zonable 6Gb SAS dual-ported backplane and drives the Hydra60 can sustain a remarkable performance while providing high-availability to volumes or object storage. With external interface options including FDR Infiniband, 40/10GbE 1Gb Ethernet and supporting Linux and Lustre releases 2.x the Hydra60 makes an excellent storage platform for Lustre performance with HA operation. The design of Hydra60 provides an affordable, redundant and resilient storage platform by leveraging RAIDZ thereby eliminating the cost of hardware RAID controller technology.”

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Slidecast: ClusterStor 1500 Departmental Scale-Out Storage for HPC

Rich Brueckner — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:32:21 +0000

In this slidecast, Ken Claffey from Xyratex describes the company’s new ClusterStor 1500 storage system. Designed for scale-out HPC storage solutions, the ClusterStor 1500 delivers HPC performance and efficiency with help from the Lustre file system.

Departments within larger organizations or medium-sized enterprises today, especially in the commercial, academic and government sectors, represent an underserved market. They need high-performance and scalable storage solutions that are cost-efficient, easy to deploy and manage and reliable even under heavy workloads,” said Ken Claffey, senior vice president of the ClusterStor business at Xyratex. “Growth in this market segment is being driven by the increasing adoption of simulation applications in a wide range of industries from car and aircraft design to chemical interactions and financial modeling. Traditional enterprise storage systems are simply not designed to meet the performance needs of these applications, so we engineered and built the affordable and modular ClusterStor 1500 to bring the performance power of Lustre to this underserved and growing market in the way that only ClusterStor can.”

With the ability to scale performance from 1.25GB/s to 110GB/s and raw capacity from 42TB to 7.3PB, ClusterStor 1500 is purpose-built to satisfy data intensive department level compute cluster needs, ClusterStor 1500 is designed to provide best in class scale-out storage for middle tier high performance computing environments. The ClusterStor 1500 solution features scale-out storage building blocks, the Lustre parallel filesystem and a comprehensive management platform that eliminates the guesswork usually associated with building and optimizing your own HPC storage solution.

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Video: Software vs. Hardware RAID and Implications for the Future

Rich Brueckner — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:00:40 +0000

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013, Alan Poston from Xyratex presents: Software vs. Hardware RAID and Implications for the Future.

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Video: Lessons Learned from the Blue Waters 1 Terabyte/sec File System

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:27:51 +0000

Now that the deployment of the 1 Terabyte/sec file system at Blue Waters has been completed, what comes next? In this video from the Xyratex Blog, John Fragalla, principal solutions architect at Xyratex, discusses the value that ClusterStor brings to the HPC market and what the company has learned from designing and deploying ClusterStor solutions.

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