[HTML1] This week the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is showcasing it’s supercompting work done by the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program. As part of that effort, NNSA also launched a new and improved ASC webpage yesterday. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj4MjUA_G5I Today’s feature video describes the hardware, software, codes, and data that make supercomputers such a critical […]
Archives for April 2011
Video: Building a Univa Grid Engine in the Cloud – in under 10 Minutes
April 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwCkuc2z3o In this video, we see a demonstration of how to build a Univa Grid Engine Cluster in Amazon EC2 in under 10 minutes from start to submitting jobs.
Video: Interview with Peter Bojanic of Xyratex on the Future of Lustre
April 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebI2n5o47E In this video, I interview Peter Bojanic of Xyratex at LUG’2011 about the future of the Lustre file system. The company has posted a new whitepaper entitled Xyratex Lustre Architecture Priorities Overview, written by Dr. Peter J. Braam, Dr. Nikita Danilov & Nathan Rutman.
Force10 Rolls Out Open Cloud Networking
April 26, 2011 by
Today Force10 Networks announced something its calling the Open Cloud Networking (OCN) framework. The company described it as a new vision for cloud computing and conventional data centers built on open architectures, open automation, and open ecosystems. It is good for the market to see Force10 take the open, standards-based architectural approach in their OCN […]
Video: Detecting Hidden File System Problems
April 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp8uUzcXp_I In this video, NERSC’s Nick Cardo presents Detecting Hidden File System Problems. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.
Free eBook: Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing
April 26, 2011 by
TACC’s Victor Eijkhout, Edmond Chow, and Robert van de Geij have posted an excellent eBook entitled: Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing. While currently in a Public Draft form that is open for comments, the book features topics such as Sequential and Parallel Computer Architecture, Programming strategies for high performance, Numerical treatment of differential equations, High […]
Video: Imperative Recovery for Lustre
April 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGo4ntS6WA In this video, Whamcloud’s Jay Xiong presents Imperative Recovery for Lustre. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.
Inside Track: Blue Gene Architect Alan Gara Leaving IBM for Intel
April 25, 2011 by
insideHPC has confirmed that IBM Fellow Dr. Alan Gara is leaving the company to join Intel. As the chief system architect of the three generations of Blue Gene supercomputers, Gara was an IBM Fellow at T.J. Watson Research Center and was leading exascale system research at IBM. As the 2010 recipient of the Seymour Cray […]
Interview: Argonne's Mike Papka on the Pending 10 Petaflop Mira Super
April 25, 2011 by
[HTML1] insideHPC would like to thank The Exascale Report, a subscriber-based newsletter, for permission to repost this article. Recently, Argonne has been in the news with “Mira,” the anticipated 10-petaFLOPS IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer expected to go online in 2012. To get a better understanding of what Mira is all about, and what it means […]
AMAX Serves Up Easy Private Clouds Affordably with CloudMax
April 25, 2011 by
Today AMAX rolled out a new cloud appliance targeted at Small & Medium-sized businesses looking to deploy their own private clouds. The aptly-named CloudMax product combines cloud management automation, unified threat management, and advanced engineering into a ready-to-deploy total solution starting at under $65k. The CloudMax on-premise, x86-based private cloud appliance is a complete platform […]
