Archives for March 2011

Video: MPI Performance and Optimizations Parts 1 and 2

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vteu5AIcxBM In this video, Dhabaleswar K. Panda presents MPI performance and optimizations parts 1 and 2. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.

Video: HP in High Performance Computing

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWT36zZeQZg In this video, HP’s Patrick Van Reeth ­presents an update on the company’s High Performance Computing solutions. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.

Video: The pNFS Standard and the Latest Developments

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQlwZ1-ezuQ In this video, Brent Welch from Panasas presents the latest developments of the pNFS standard. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.

Video: On-site Preview of National HPCC 2011 Conference

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHaVtcSDYk In this video, Rich Brueckner previews the National HPCC 2011 Conference, which will take place this week in Newport. The conference will wrap up with an HPC Analyst Crossfire session hosted by Addison Snell.

Webinar: HPC Fabric Design and Performance, March 31, 2011

The Society of HPC Professionals is offering a webinar on network fabric design and performance on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:00am PDT. “Today’s HPC clusters tend to be larger and use processors with increased performance and cores count density, which means that the HPC cluster fabric is becoming more important in supporting the cluster’s […]

Video: Resiliency on the Way to Exascale

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xJsqfNzbc In this video, ParTec’s Thomas Moschny presents Resiliency on the Way to Exascale. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.

Nvidia Flexes Tesla Muscles

By Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting • Get more from this author 2010 was the breakout year for Nvidia’s Tesla division, according to Tesla VP Andy Keane, who spoke at the company’s Industry Analyst Day earlier this month. I think it’s pretty obvious that he’s right, and a quick review of the last year tells the […]

Video: vFtree – A Fat-tree Routing Algorithm using Virtual Lanes to Alleviate Congestion

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmH-zlk257w In this video, Sven-Arne Reinemo, Simula Research Lab, presents vFtree – A Fat-tree Routing Algorithm using Virtual Lanes to Alleviate Congestion. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.

Cracking 25 Billion Passwords per Second

Joe Pizzini writes that a Renderstream customer who works as a security expert at a Fortune 500 firm was able to crack 25 billion passwords in a single second using the company’s GPU solutions. “As part of our security program, it’s continuously evolving to include the latest attack vectors and ensure that our organization is […]

Video: PSM – A Major InfiniBand OFED Enhancement

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0uSl_gyZnI In this video, Joe Yaworkski from QLogic presents on a PSM: A Major InfiniBand OFED Enhancement. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Yaworski is the author of a guest feature posted here recently on PSM and InfiniBand collectives. The full version of the LLNL presentation from SC10, which is […]