Interested in hooking up your large capacity Lustre install with a scalable hierarchical storage manager [HSM]? The folks inside the Lustre group at Sun have recently been collaborating with their peers in the SAM-QFS group as well as several large Lustre customers in order to come up with a more cohesive solution for providing HSM […]
Archives for 2009
InsideTrack: Verari Systems out of business [UPDATED]
December 11, 2009 by
During SC09 a well-connected friend told me that Verari Systems was in trouble for lack of access to capital — essentially the same immediate cause as SiCortex. Then in response to my post a couple weeks ago asking if anyone had seen Verari at SC09, I got a tip that they had registered for booth […]
DKRZ Install Video
December 11, 2009 by
Interested in what 8,000 cores looks like being rolled onto a machine floor? Check out DKRZ’s snazzy install video they posted on YouTube.
DKRZ commissions new climate super, learns from UK Met's PR fumble
December 11, 2009 by
Remember the flap over the UK Met office’s supercomputer and the charges it was a “super polluter?” Good times. Well, it seems that the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) does too, and is taking steps to sidestep the controversy they went through. From a story at Times Live The custom-built machine at the German Climate […]
Smarr on "the good, the bad, and the ugly" in the NSF supercomputer program
December 11, 2009 by
I was finishing my graduate work in the early (and then the late) 1990s under Joe Thompson’s direction at the MSU/NSF ERC for Computational Field Simulation, and was privileged to work at that time through Joe’s mentorship with both Rice University and NCSA’s supercomputing programs under Ken Kennedy and Larry Smarr. All three men were […]
CRA: NSF AND NIST set to do well in FY10 appropriations
December 11, 2009 by
The excellent Policy Blog of the CRA has an update on the FY10 appropriations process The House and Senate Appropriators are in their end game on the FY 10 appropriations process and yesterday released the “conference agreement” for an omnibus appropriations bill they’ve created that bundles all the outstanding appropriations bills save one (Defense). Included […]
UK HPC investment meant to stimulate business [UPDATED]
December 11, 2009 by
Earlier this week computing.co.uk ran a story on a new £44m supercomputing institute in Wales in the UK. The investment is being run out of the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which is footing £10M of the bill directly, with the balance coming from outside sources. The Welsh secretary Peter Hain pointed […]
Dinosaurs, John Cleese, and HPC
December 11, 2009 by
The original story at PhysOrg has a more grown up headline, but really, if the story combines HPC and John Cleese I think that has to lead. Here’s the story: The University of Manchester, University of Oregon and Yale teamed up to use the UK’s HECToR supercomputer to conduct mobility analyses based on what we […]
Doodling with Intel's GPU missteps
December 11, 2009 by
Michael Feldman has brought together some thoughts from analysts and commentators on what Intel’s cancellation of the retail Larrabee launch means today, and what implications it could have for future business. Michael closes with a view that closely matches my own My take is that it’s still too early to count Intel out of the […]
Gropp, Vaidya Named IEEE Fellows for 2010
December 11, 2009 by
Computer science professor Bill Gropp and computer science affiliate professor Nitin Vaidya have been named to the 2010 class of IEEE Fellows. Dr. Gropp was selected for his contributions to high performance computing and message passing. He has been instrumental in pushing progress in MPI standards adoption and core MPI architecture. Vaidya was selected for […]
