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Today NetApp announced the new NetApp E5500 storage system for Big Data and HPC applications. Derived from Engenio technology acquired from LSI, the seventh-generation E-Series is a high-density platform with record per-spindle throughput.

The SGI InfiniteStorage 5600, which is an OEM version of the NetApp E5500, has produced a new SPC-2 result confirming the performance and cost efficiency of the new E5500; it showcases the performance possibilities the E5500 unlocks for HPC and big data organizations. The audited, peer-reviewed SPC-2 result demonstrates the highest throughput per spindle by more than 2.5 times over the nearest non-NetApp published result.

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In related news, SGI rolled out the InfiniteStorage 5600 storage system today, noting that the flexibility of the platform enables users to push the limit without breaking their budget.

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The Unknowns that come with Exascale
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Over at Reed’s Ruminations, Dan Reed writes that the road to Exascale will come complete with the unknowns that make up any change that involves orders of magnitude.

All currently envisioned exascale systems would require parallelism at unprecedented scale, and barring new, energy efficient memory technologies; they would be memory starved relative to current systems, even under a 20 MW system design point; and multilevel fault tolerance would be required to achieve acceptable systemic mean time to failure (MTBF). Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.

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Video: Supercomputer Modelling of a Complete Human Viral Pathogen
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In this video, researchers perform a reconstruction and simulation of the poliovirus using the BlueGene/Q supercomputer at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative. The poliovirus model is being used as a basis for understanding antiviral drugs, virus infection and helps us to learn how to model related viruses such as Enterovirus 71.

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The OFA User Workshop, April 18-19, provides opportunities to share experiences and learn from a community of OFS users.
The International Developer’s Workshop, April 21-24, will focus on the development and improvement of OFS as well as major developments in RDMA, etc. Agenda and more information is available on OpenFabrics.org.
Registration for the two events is now open. For more details, check out the OFA Newsletter.

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Video: Enterprise HPC in the Cloud – Fortune 500 Use Cases
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Over at the Compute Cycles Blog, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing writes that the recent AWS: reInvent conference featured a series of talks on Enterprise Use Cases of HPC in the Cloud. In this video, Stowe introduces Cloud HPC talks from Johnson & Johnson, Pacific Life, Hartford Insurance, and Life Technologies.

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Benchmarking Intel Xeon Phi vs. Sandy Bridge
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Intel has been careful to label the Xeon Phi as a coprocessor, something that always pairs with a Xeon CPU. But how does their performance compare on real applications? Over at the Xcelerit Blog, Paul Sutton benchmarks both devices using an optimized parallel version of the Monte-Carlo LIBOR swaption portfolio pricer.

It is executed once on the host CPUs (the Sandy Bridge processors), and again on the Xeon Phi co-processor in offload mode. The execution time of the full application is measured, including data transfers, random number generation, and reduction. All these steps are running on the target processor.

As we can see, from about 100K paths onwards, the Intel Xeon Phi becomes faster than the Sandy Bridge processors, reaching nearly 3x at 1M paths. With lower numbers of paths, the Sandy Bridge outperforms the Phi. This can be explained by the added data transfers and the comparably low level of parallelism for a low number of paths (considering both vectorization and multi-threading). The setup time for the random number generator also becomes more dominant on the Xeon Phi when there is relatively little computation performed.

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Podcast: Student Cluster Competition Comes to South Africa, Winners off to ISC’13
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In this podcast, Happy Sithole from CHPC and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discuss the first-ever Student Cluster Competition in South Africa, which wrapped up in December. The winning team will be traveling to compete in the ISC’13 Student Cluster Competition in Leipzig this June.

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In related news, you can now follow all the major worldwide Student Cluster Competitions at their new home site.

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1 Terabyte/sec File Systems Enable Big Fast Data
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Over at the new Cray Blog, VP of Storage Barry Bolding writes that Big Data at the company is synonymous with very fast data access. As evidenced by the Lustre-powered Terabyte/sec file system on Blue Waters, the time for Big Fast Data has come.

Success was achieved on Oct. 7, 2012 when Cray and NCSA measured 1.037 TB/sec of performance to a single Lustre filesystem and 1.137 TB/sec of simultaneously to all three Lustre filesystems. To put this achievement into mass media perspective, 1TB/sec is equivalent to downloading about 125 copies of Dead Space 3 per second, or about 250,000 songs through Spotify per second. This is a milestone for parallel filesystems, a milestone for Lustre, a milestone for Cray and a milestone for our customer at NCSA. Best of all this the technology is being put to good use by a cadre of National Science Foundation users in solving some of the most challenging scientific problems facing our world today.

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Podcast: Student Cluster Competition Comes to South Africa, Winners off to ISC’13

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 5, 2013

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In this podcast, Happy Sithole from CHPC and Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discuss the first-ever Student Cluster Competition in South Africa, which wrapped up in December. The winning team will be traveling to compete in the ISC’13 Student Cluster Competition in Leipzig this June.

Download the MP3 or Subscribe on iTunes.

In related news, you can now follow all the major worldwide Student Cluster Competitions at their new home site.

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Video: Harlem Shake Comes to HPC

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 24, 2013

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Who says that HPC folks don’t know how to have fun? Our Video Sunday feature continues with this Mellanox rendition of the Harlem Shake, an Internet meme that is apparently all the rage at the moment.

I had to look it up, but the Harlem Shake is a recent phenomenon, with versions performed by diverse groups including the Norwegian Army, Dallas Mavericks, and the Swansea City football team.

The videos last between 30 and 32 seconds and feature an excerpt from the song “Harlem Shake” by electronic musician Baauer. Usually, a video begins with one person (often helmeted or masked) dancing to the song alone for 15 seconds, surrounded by other people not paying attention or unaware of the dancing individual. When the bass drops, the video cuts to the entire crowd doing a crazy convulsive dance for the next 15 seconds.

I’m wondering if someone could simulate the spread of this kind of thing? As of February 15, about 40,000 Harlem Shake videos had been uploaded, totalling 175 million views.

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How Intel’s True Scale QDR-80 IB Scales for Less

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 23, 2013

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Intel has been rather quiet about their True Scale InfiniBand products since they acquired QLogic’s IB technology and engineering teams in January 2012. It’s looking like that is starting to change with a series of interviews at The Register and Semi-Accurate that describe how True Scale QDR-80 products measure up to next-generation FDR offerings from Mellanox. To learn more, I caught up with Intel’s Joe Jaworsky last week and got an update on where Intel is heading with fabrics on its journey to Exascale computing.

If you’ll recall, the True Scale architecture replaces traditional Verbs-based MPI libraries with the Performance Scaled Messaging (PSM) layer. Designed specifically with HPC performance in mind, this approach does not require address lookups, which gives you the goodness of lower latency. In large deployments such as those in the Tri-Labs, True Scale has delivered impressive scalability as described in Sandia’s report entitled: Unprecedented Scalability and Performance of the New NNSA tri-lab Linux Capacity Cluster 2, which is part of the SC12 Proceedings.

The performance gains that Sandia users are experiencing with their applications on the new TLCC2 Chama has resulted in many positive feedbacks from happy users…. As pointed out in the introduction, to the scales we have benchmarked on Chama, we are seeing unprecedented performance and scalability of many key Sandia applications.

So how did Intel get True Scale to scale so well? They use something called QDR-80 to double-up 40Gbps QDR ports, thus delivering 80Gbps. While this is a neat trick in itself, Intel has paired this with lower pricing than FDR alternatives. The net-net of this is that Intel is offering low latency interconnects for less money, a persuasive message indeed for supercomputer buyers who would love to take that extra cash and use it to buy more cores.

Watch this space as Intel continues to beef up its portfolio on its journey to Exascale computing. Compute is just one element of a performing, balanced architecture. As Intel brings fabrics (Cray Aries, True Scale, and Fulcurm) and storage (Lustre expertise and SSDs) to bear, the company is building a formidable platform for the future of HPC.

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HP Taps Mellanox for Low Latency Blade Switch

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 22, 2013

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Over at the HP Blog, Steve Barry writes that the days of Blade servers being hampered by the limitations of top-of-rack switches may be over thanks to new technology from Mellanox. Designed specifically for customers that demand performance and raw bandwidth the Mellanox SX1018HP blade switch provides up to sixteen 40Gb server downlinks and up to eighteen 40Gb network uplinks for an amazing 1.3Tb/s of throughput.

For customers currently running Infiniband networks, the appeal of being able to collapse their data requirements onto a single network has always been tempered by the lack of support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on Ethernet networks. Again, HP and Mellanox lead the way in blade switches. The SX1018HP supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) allowing those RDMA tuned applications to work across both Infiniband and Ethernet networks. When coupled with the recently announced HP544M 40Gb Ethernet/FDR Infiniband adapter, customers can now support RDMA end to end on either network and begin the migration to a single Ethernet infrastructure.

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Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Powers Fastest Supercomputer in India

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 20, 2013

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This week Mellanox announced that India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is using the company’s end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions for PARAM Yuva – II, the fastest supercomputer in India. As the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, C-DAC chose Mellanox’s robust, high-speed interconnect solution due to its performance, scalability, low power consumption, and high-efficiency data handling.

C-DAC’s HPC programs are focused towards creating an eco-system to derive full benefits from HPC systems to address grand challenge problems and advancing fundamental science, research and industrial competitiveness,” said Dr. Pradeep Sinha, Senior Director, High Performance Computing at C-DAC. “Utilizing Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions, the new PARAM Yuva – II cluster can provide our users with superior application performance to further research and development.”

The 360 Teraflop Yuva II was built in conjunction with Netweb Technologies using Tyrone-based servers. Read the Full Story.

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Haise Supercomputer Dedicated in Mississippi

By RichB | Published February 18, 2013

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Haise, one of the DoD’s newest supercomputers, was dedicated this weekend at the Navy DSRC in Mississippi. Named after Navy aviator and NASA astronaut Fred Haise, the IBM iDataPlex supercomputer will be used to design new aircraft, ships, and military equipment as well as model and simulate weather and ocean conditions for a wide range of other DoD mission-related science and engineering research. The Navy DSRC is a part of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).

Each system is configured with 18,816 compute cores via 1,176 compute nodes containing 16 Intel Sandy Bridge E5-2670 cores and 32 GB of memory. Each node runs RedHat Linux 6.2 and has access to the 2.8 PB GPFS parallel filesystem as well as the 4X FDR-10 Mellanox Infiniband communication fabric. The batch queuing system is PBSPro version 11.3. Other software of note on the systems includes the IBM Parallel Environment, Intel Compiler Suite, Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL), GNU Compiler Suite, OpenMPI and the TotalView Debugger.


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NASDAQ OMX NLX Selects Mellanox’s InfiniBand Solutions for Core Trading Interconnect

By Ralph | Published February 14, 2013

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Today Mellanox announced that its high performance InfiniBand solutions have been selected by NASDAQ OMX NLX to enable fast, reliable trading. NLX, the new London derivatives market, will offer a range of both short- and long-term interest rate euro- and sterling-based listed derivatives products, subject to Financial Services Authority approval. InfiniBand will act as the server interconnect for NLX’s matching engines.

Mellanox is a well-known and trusted supplier for providing low latency solutions for trade matching and execution,” said Carl Slesser, chief technology officer, NLX. “We are working with our partners to ensure we offer a robust and efficient environment to trade both ends of the interest rate curve on a single market.”

In addition to Mellanox’s InfiniBand interconnect solutions, NASDAQ OMX NLX will use Mellanox’s VMA messaging accelerator to cut 60-to-70 percent of the server-to-server latency and eliminate jitter. Read the Full Story.

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insideHPC Achieves Record Growth for 2012

By Staff | Published February 11, 2013

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PORTLAND, OREGON – January 17, 2013 – insideHPC LLC, parent company of the industry leading High Performance Computing (HPC) news site, insideHPC.com, along with its sister publications inside-Bigdata, inside-Cloud and inside-Startups, today announced a year of record growth for 2012.

Combined, the four inside* publications achieved 35% growth year-over-year in 2012. With readership continuing to rise each month, company advertising revenue has more than doubled since being acquired by HPC industry veteran Rich Brueckner in 2010.

I am both thrilled and humbled that insideHPC has seen such tremendous growth both in terms of readers and advertisers,” said Rich Brueckner, president of insideHPC LLC. “We continually survey our readers to ensure we are providing content and a format that meets the needs of the community. Our short format approach and uncluttered look has been applauded along with our wide use of rich media, and I have no doubt is contributing to our growth and success.”

The other publications owned and managed by Brueckner have achieved similar impressive results for 2012. Inside-Bigdata targets readers of commercial computing environments and enterprise computing where data intensive challenges are paramount. Inside-Cloud formed many partnerships soon after being launched and is an important media channel for many organizations in Cloud computing. And the company’s youngest publication, inside-Startups, has attracted the attention of companies throughout the country as they look to get exposure for their entrepreneurial ventures.

Recently, Brueckner was named by Forbes magazine as one of the Top 20 Big Data Influencers. As the industry continues to embrace data-intensive computing and the use of business analytics, Brueckner anticipates tremendous growth for the inside-BigData publication in 2013 and beyond.

As both a data scientist and an investor closely watching emerging trends in advanced computing, I have come to rely on the inside* publications – from inside-startups to insideHPC – as key channels for maintaining an insider’s perspective on market dynamics and companies to watch,” said Thomas Thurston, Partner, Ironstone Group and CEO, Growth Science.

“The HPC market continues to expand,” said Brueckner. “A number of our sponsors including Mellanox and ScaleMP announced record growth in 2012, and we’d like to think we helped make that possible. In 2013, the storage vendors we work with are especially bullish on how the Big Data trend will help them grow as well.

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Mellanox Introduces MetroDX for Inter Data Center Connectivity

By Ralph | Published February 11, 2013

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Today Mellanox announced the availability of new RDMA InfiniBand and Ethernet long-haul interconnect solutions as part of the company’s MetroX product line. MetroX products enable long-reach, high-throughput RDMA connectivity within and between data centers across multiple geographically distributed sites.

The company also introduced new MetroDX systems designed for internal data center long reach connectivity or as a bridge between close data center compute and storage infrastructures.

The need for long-haul InfiniBand and Ethernet with RDMA connectivity continues to grow,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of market development at Mellanox Technologies. “The MetroX series extends InfiniBand and Ethernet lossless RDMA beyond a single data center network location. Data center expansion or Disaster Recovery (DR) sites can now benefit from Mellanox’s fastest interconnect solutions with no performance degradation. Utilizing Mellanox high-throughput interconnect solutions, our customers are able to reduce their database recovery time from days to hours, and thus maintain their business continuity and gain a competitive edge.”

MetroX enables IT managers to effectively connect remote data centers together, and provide faster disaster recovery and better utilization of remote storage or compute infrastructures.

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Video: Hadoop Acceleration with RDMA

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 8, 2013

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In this video, Eyal Gutkind from Mellanox presents: Hadoop Acceleration with RDMA. The presentation was recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2013. Download the slides (PDF).

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Mellanox Wins Data Center Interconnect Awards for Ethernet Switching and Virtual Protocol Interconnect Technology

By Ralph | Published January 28, 2013

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Today Mellanox announced it has been presented with two data center interconnect awards from ZDnet China and China Network World. The annual awards recognize vendors and products that facilitate low latency and high efficiency across small businesses and enterprise data centers in Asia.

It is an honor to be recognized by ZDNet China and China Network World for our product excellence in the cloud and enterprise data center environments,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of market development at Mellanox Technologies. “It’s a testament to the hard working teams at Mellanox who continue to deliver leading server and storage interconnect technologies to our customers.”

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Video: SGI ICE X Presentation at SC12

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 24, 2013

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In this video from the Mellanox booth at SC12, Paul Kinyon from SGI presents on the SGI ICE X, a fifth-generation blade-based x86 cluster. According to Kinyon, the SGI Ice X was the first platform to support FDR InfiniBand at the node level, the switch level, and the fabric level.

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Mellanox Financials show Record Growth in 2012

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 23, 2013

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Yet another HPC company announced record results this week with news that Mellanox Technologies did over $500 million revenue in 2012. And while we don’t focus much on financials here at insideHPC, I think it is worth noting that the company achieved 93.2 percent annual year-over-year revenue growth.

We are proud of our results for 2012, which was an outstanding year. Mellanox achieved record levels of revenue, cash flow and profitability, driven by growth in our strong product offerings and penetration into new and existing markets. We doubled the volume of silicon unit devices shipped from 2011 to 2012 to a record 1.1 million, highlighting our increased market share growth,” said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies.”

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Video: Virtualized Infiniband based on SR-IOV – Enabling HPC in the Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 23, 2013

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In this video from the Mellanox booth at SC12, Hoot Thompson from NASA Center for Climate Simulation presents: Virtualized Infiniband based on SR-IOV – Enabling HPC in the Cloud.

So what is SR-IOV? The short answer is that SR-IOV is a specification that allows a PCIe device to appear to be multiple separate physical PCIe devices. The SR-IOV specification was created and is maintained by the PCI SIG, with the idea that a standard specification will help promote interoperability.


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