Archives for April 2012

Video: LNET Routing Enhancements and Extracting Maximum Performance

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDZftKdfnxg In this video, Isaac Huang from Xyratex and David Dillow from Oak Ridge National Laboratory present: LNET Routing Enhancements and Extracting Maximum Performance. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.

Contest: What Would You Do With a Petaflop?

Clipped from: blogs.nvidia.com (share this clip) To many of the HPC users I’ve talked to, the idea of an Exascale computer is not nearly as exciting as the advent of affordable Petaflop computing. To this end, Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta writes that the company is launching a contest to see what you would do with a […]

Video: Lustre 2.1 and Lustre-HSM at International Fusion Energy Research Centre

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQMccRMUmes In this video, Diego Moreno from Bull presents: Lustre 2.1 and Lustre-HSM at IFERC. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.

Intel Reels in Cray’s Supercomputer Interconnect Biz – Trumping AMD’s SeaMicro Buy?

By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Intel really is taking networking and system interconnects very seriously, and is buying the interconnect hardware business from massively parallel supercomputer maker Cray for $140m. The move is something of a surprise to us outside of Cray, Intel, and the government supercomputer labs that pay the bills […]

Video: Leveraging Lustre to Address the I/O Challenges of Exascale

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGdsLP6ESag In this video, Eric Barton from Whamcloud presents: Leveraging Lustre to Address the I/O Challenges of Exascale. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.

NetApp Upgrades E-Series to Speed Big Data

This week NetApp announced major enhancements to its Lustre-powered E-Series storage platforms for HPC and Big Data applications. The availability of the ZIB data is of extreme importance for the users and for us and we have been actively evaluating technologies to reduce the window of vulnerability that exists due to the lengthening re-build times of […]

Video: Lustre Quality Presentation from LUG 2012

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzJz6iKYPpU In this video, Chris Gearing and Mike Stok from Whamcloud present: Lustre Quality. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.

eXludus Rolls Out World’s First Micro-Virtualization Platform

Today eXludus announced the first Micro-Virtualization solution that extends virtualization to the “micro” level so that users can also optimize the real-time allocation of micro-resources, such as cores and memory, in multi-core systems. The ability to manage resources at this level becomes especially important as the number of cores per system continues to grow. The […]

Video: Network Request Scheduler Scale Testing Results

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymgOBEW1uk In this video, Nikitas Angelinas from Xyratex presents: Network Request Scheduler Scale Testing Results. Recorded at LUG 2012 in Austin. Note: Most of the videos from LUG 2012 are now posted at the OpenSFS site.

Cray to Sell Interconnect Hardware Assets to Intel

Today Cray today announced it signed a definitive agreement to sell its interconnect hardware development program and related intellectual property to Intel Corporation for $140 million in cash. This agreement is evidence of the leadership position we’ve established in high performance computing, and is an exciting win for our customers, our company and our shareholders,” […]