At the recent Moab.con user conference, Adaptive Computing announced that the University of Birmingham is broadening its user base with a Windows-based service for Microsoft HPC-aware applications that runs alongside their existing Linux-based service. This move will expand the availability of university’s HPC offerings to a wider variety of research disciplines, and is being made […]
Archives for April 2012
Video: EMC Lustre Contributions
April 28, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5SNDeYz5Bg In this video, Sorin Faibush from EMC presents: EMC Lustre Contributions. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.
Job of the Week: HPC Operations Lead Manager at NREL
April 28, 2012 by
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is seeking an HPC Operations Lead Manager in our Job of the Week. Job Summary The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado, is the nation’s primary laboratory for research, development, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. […]
Video: Chroma Management System for Lustre
April 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnHDc2EGFyw In this video, Robert Read from Whamcloud presents on the Chroma management system for Lustre. Chroma is an intelligent system for managing Lustre and is brand new technology. It puts scalable, high-performance parallel storage within practical reach of enterprises and institutions that have storage-intensive, distributed applications. It combines all the benefits of Lustre ―proven […]
Better Batteries through Simulation
April 27, 2012 by
With all the HPC conference I attend, the prospect of a better battery for my laptop and cameras is something I would really appreciate. Now, MIT researchers are using TACC’s Ranger supercomputer to investigate new material for high-density energy storage. Most of our world is concerned with the organic chemistry of sustaining our lives. But […]
Containers Power Thor Datacenter in Iceland
April 27, 2012 by
The Thor Data Center in Iceland is hosting a new container-based supercomputer. As a collaboration of National High Performance Computing organisations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, the new datacenter was designed with Green Computing in mind. Due to growing power consumption, supercomputing costs are an increasing economic burden for researchers and their universities; however, Iceland […]
Video: Lustre Automation Challenges
April 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui9hJGQpAyE In this video, John Spray from Whamcloud presents: Lustre Automation Challenges. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.
10 Petaflop Mira Super Coming to Argonne
April 27, 2012 by
Mira is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away in the constellation Cetus. Closer to home, Mira is also a 10 Petaflop supercomputer that is due to arrive at Argonne National Lab during the second half of 2012. David Bader, director of the Georgia Institute of Technology High Performance Computing Center, calls the […]
Video: Installation of LLNL’s Sequoia File System
April 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZgZJE3kL5A In this video, Marc Stearman from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory presents: Installation of LLNL’s Sequoia File System. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.
Miha’s Retrospective on Grid Engine
April 26, 2012 by
Clipped from: my-inner-voice.blogspot.com (share this clip) Sun Alum Miha Ahronovitz writes that Grid Engine has developed many devoted fans over the years. If you want a metaphor, the Volkswagen Beetle created the cult car that made successful the entire company. Similarly, Grid Engine can be viewed as a not perfect, but fascinating product. It can […]
