Archives for April 2011

Video: Interview with Whamcloud CTO Eric Barton

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWuu4w0wn0 In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC inteviews Whamcloud’s Eric Barton on the topics the Lustre code development, the Lustre community, and the roadmap for Exascale. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011.

Video: Lustre at Juelich Supercomputing Center

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1QKy7hVOg In this video, JSC’s Frank Heckes presents Lustre at Juelich Supercomputing Center. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.

Video: Lustre as a Root File System / Speeding up Metadata

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpnYkx69QSc In this video, Robin Humble, NCINF, presents Lustre as a root file system. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.

Time-Lapse Video: Tokyo As a Dark City

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ChRZunYaw Our Video Sunday feature continues with this time-lapse video of Tokyo before and after the recent natural disasters that have resulted in rolling blackouts. I found myself extremely moved by this piece. The notion of a thriving city going dim is one thing, but to see it happen is something else entirely. As a […]

Data-Intensive Problems to Shift Course of Supercomputing

Science Daily is reporting that a ‘Data Deluge’ is resulting in a paradigm shift in supercomputer architectures. In a presentation during the 3rd Annual La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit this week, SDSC Director Michael Norman said that the amount of digital data generated just by instruments such as DNA sequencers, cameras, telescopes, and MRIs […]

Video: Lustre Use Cases in the TSUBAME2.0 Supercomputer

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaiv716xu10 In this video, Hitoshi Sato from the Tokyo Institute of Technology presents Lustre Use Cases in the TSUBAME2.0 supercomputer. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.

Video: btrfs Overview plus Stability and Performance Analysis

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzrCfo4MdQ In this video, ORNL’s Douglas Fuller presents Stability and Performance Analysis of brtfs. After that, Whamcloud’s Johann Lombardi presentsbrtfs: Overview and Requirements for a btrfs osd. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.

Video: Testing Methodology for Large Scale File Systems

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VY1sReOyGc In this video, ORNL’s Sarp Oral presents Testing Methodology for Large Scale File Systems. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.

Video: Lustre Metadata Operations Improvements

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQjEZg8izo In this video, Whamcloud’s Fan Yong presents Lustre Metadata Operations Improvements. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Download the slides (PDF). Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.

Video: Lustre File Creation Performance Enhancements

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423O1BTTQjA In this video, Terascala’s Ben Evans presents Lustre File Creation Performance Enhancements. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the conference site.