httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLyltdlxmHA In this video, Torben Kling-Petersen from Xyratex discusses the company’s commitment to the Lustre file system and why it is important for them to be a member of the OpenSFS community at the highest “Promoter” level. We are very involved with the HPC community, especially with OpenSFS and EOFS. We’re very committed to Lustre […]
Archives for June 2012
Twisted Light Technology Transfers Data at 2.56 Terabits/sec
June 26, 2012 by
Damon Poeter over at PCmag writes that researchers have demonstrated that ‘Twisted Light’ technology capable of data transfers at 2.56 Terabits per second, fast enough to transfer a feature film to your smart phone in one second. Researchers from the University of Southern California, China, Pakistan, and Israel say their data transmission process gets around […]
Understanding the Bulldozer Architecture through the LINPACK Benchmark
June 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIUMnRtPnM In this video, Josh Mora from AMD presents: Understanding the Bulldozer Architecture through the LINPACK Benchmark. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council European Workshop at ISC’12 in Hamburg. Download the slides (PDF).
Amazon Installs TOP500-class HPC cluster in Ireland
June 26, 2012 by
Sophie Curtis from Techworld writes AWS HPC cloud services are available outside the US for the first time. In what may be the first in a series of deployments, Amazon Web Services has installed a cluster system at its EU West facility in Ireland. Each Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xl) instance includes a pair […]
Video: Mike Stolz on the New ClusterStor 6000 for HPC
June 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tKgjQAx4A In this video, Mike Stolz from Xyratex describes the company’s new ClusterStor 6000 product and why Xyratex is leading the way in HPC storage performance without sacrificing reliability. The ClusterStor product family of scale-out HPC data storage solutions features a tightly integrated distributed computing architecture. Xyratex has integrated Lustre into storage appliances designed to […]
UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Named
June 26, 2012 by
Blue Joule, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system, has been officially named the number one supercomputer in the UK and thirteenth most powerful in the world. The announcement was made at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, when the 39th edition of the Top500 list of the world’s leading supercomputers was revealed. Installed […]
Video: For HPC Energy Efficiency, Samsung 20-nm Memory Fab Makes a Difference
June 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vmgRt5wtw4 In this video, Peyman Blumstengel from Samsung describes the reasons why the fabrication process used by your system memory vendor really matters for HPC clusters in terms of energy efficiency, performance, and sustainability. Recorded at ISC’12 in Hamburg. Samsung’s latest 20-nm class DDR3 memory solutions enable power savings of 67% for the memory, as […]
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau to Deploy First Fujitsu FX10 Outside of Japan
June 26, 2012 by
This week Fujitsu announced that the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan will deploy a 1 Petaflop PRIMEHPC FX10 supercomputer system for use in numerical weather predictions. The system will be delivered in stages over the course of three years. The new CWB system, once fully configured, will be one of the world’s foremost supercomputers in […]
NetApp Tackles Huge IO Storage Requirements for #1 Sequoia Supercomputer
June 25, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQDk2A7XYQ In this video, Bryan Berezdivin from NetApp describes the company’s recent storage deployment for the Sequoia supercomputer at LLNL. Currently ranked at #1 on the TOP500, the 16.3 Petaflop Sequoia system had massive IO requirements of over 1 Terabyte per second served up by the NetApp HPC Solution for Lustre. The total NetApp system […]
Job of the Week: Director of ITS Research Technologies at Yale
June 25, 2012 by
Yale University is seeking a new Director of ITS Research Technologies in our Job of the Week. This is an exciting opportunity for a world-class IT professional to bring high-level leadership to a new division within Yales Information Technology Services organization. Reporting to the Associate CIO for Academic IT, the successful candidate will work with […]
