Last week we covered news that the research consortium headed by Stephen Hawking was upgrading to an SGI UV 1000 system. That story was thin on actual details about the deployed system, so I got in touch with SGI to see if we could find out more. Here is what I heard back from a […]
Archives for August 2010
Sun GridEngine, now 100% less free
August 20, 2010 by
Oracle continues its drive to do away with Sun’s strategy of making money by adding value on top of open source tools provided free to the community. In fairness to Oracle it didn’t work all that well as a business model for Sun, which hemorrhaged money and never turned the strategy into any significant share […]
What to read at insideHPC this week
August 20, 2010 by
Wondering what to read at insideHPC? Some of the most popular posts this week are: OpenSolaris dead at age 5 September HPC User Forum Will Probe New/Emerging HPC Markets DARPA funds Kendall Square startup to develop probability chip Parry lands at SolarFlare Justin Rattner with (some) details on Intel’s UHPC research If you aren’t subscribed […]
Whamcloud aims to make sure Lustre has a future in HPC
August 20, 2010 by
insideHPC had a chance this week to sit down with the executives of the newly minted Whamcloud, Brent Gorda and Eric Barton. Many of you probably know Brent from his work within the US Department of Energy supercomputing circles. Eric Barton brings 25 years of development experience in supercomputing to the Whamcloud team. He has been working on Lustre since he was brought in to stabilize its network stack when the project first received DOE funding. Most recently he was a Principle Engineer at Sun/Oracle where he served as Chief Architect of the Lustre group.
As you may know, Whamcloud’s business model is centered on the Lustre parallel file system. But what exactly does this mean? Lustre is an open source project, managed and held by the Oracle Corporation via their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Given that Oracle’s core business isn’t dependent upon Lustre, many folks with large-scale Lustre deployments have been worried about the progression of the code base. We wanted to dig a little deeper and find out exactly what Whamcloud is up to with respect to our little friend Lustre.
UHPC, the Sandia team
August 19, 2010 by
The third of the four task area 1 teams has done its UHPC press release. Sandia has added its name to the list of teams that have told us at least a little about what they are planning to do (see the news on NVIDIA and Intel). Sandia’s Richard Murphy is the PI. To accomplish […]
HPC gives scientific computing on your cell phone a boost
August 19, 2010 by
Reader Jay Blair sent me a pointer to this story from TACC about an Android app that runs a reduced model locally on the cell phone based on results computed over a long series of runs on Ranger. The team performed a series of expensive high-fidelity simulations on the Ranger supercomputer to generate a small […]
October 11 Workshop at SARA on IDC’s Recommended Supercomputing Strategy for Europe
August 19, 2010 by
I ran an announcement on this a couple days ago with the wrong dates. I’ve updated that post, but I wanted to re-run the post for those of you that may have marked your calendars already and won’t see the correction. IDC invites members of the European HPC community and other interested parties to a […]
Weather Research Forecast Version 3.2.1 Released
August 18, 2010 by
The nice folks working on the Weather Research Forecast [WRF] code base announced a bug-fix release this afternoon. Version 3.2.1 includes mostly bug fixes, but a few improvements. They include: Fixes for producing wrffdda file Fixes for restart with auxiliary inputs (wrflowinput, wrffdda) Various fixes for physics, including URBPARM.TBL, MYJ PBL, YSU PBL, and RRTMG_LW […]
X-ISS Beefs Up HPC Administration Products and Services
August 18, 2010 by
X-ISS made two big announcements today regarding some new HPC-centric products and services. Those of you with reasonably sized Dell clusters might know X-ISS has the integration and services company that, on occasion, assists Dell in performing HPC deployments. The first press release officially announces what they call the DecisionHPC monitoring suite. The web-based monitoring […]
Parallel Nsight webinars from NVIDIA
August 18, 2010 by
News of some NVIDIA training events you may be interested in scheduling room for on your calendar Overview of Parallel Nsight 1.0 for Visual Studio August 20th, 9am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/832771459 August 23rd, 8pm https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/935381498 Debugging Massively Parallel Applications with Parallel Nsight 1.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio August 25th, 9:30am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/320801507 August 30th, 8pm https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/431568810 Analyzing and […]
