By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Huawei has captured the SPC-1 crown for disk drive and flash arrays with a 600,000-plus IOPS result for its Dorado5100 all-flash array. The SPC-1 benchmark tests how networked storage arrays serve data requests from servers in a business environment. IBM’s StorWize V7000 headed up the SPC-1 […]
Archives for August 2012
Video: Cray High Speed Networking
August 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tup1L_unHzM In this video, Cray’s Bob Alverson presents: Cray High Speed Networking. This talk gives an overview of high speed interconnects across all of Cray’s products. Going back to the Seastar router, Cray has a torus network with high bandwidth. When combined with massively multithreading technology in uRiKA, Seastar provides direct load and store support […]
How Hyper-Q Will Unleash MPI Codes for Kepler
August 23, 2012 by
Over at the Nvidia blog, Peter Messmer writes that Kepler’s new Hyper-Q feature will help increase performance for thousands of legacy MPI applications without requiring a major code rewrite. Legacy MPI-based codes were often created to run on multicore CPU systems, with the amount of work assigned to each MPI process scaled accordingly. However, this […]
Appro Steps Up on the TOP500
August 23, 2012 by
This week Appro announced that the company is showing great momentum with a great percentage share of the top spots of the TOP500 list as well as 20 spots on the Green500 list of power-efficient supercomputers. Ranking at the #4 company on the TOP500, Appro has deployed over 6 PFlops of the new Appro Xtreme-X […]
Video: The OpenOnload User-level Network Stack
August 23, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6d3fIf5mo In this video, Dave Parry from SolarFlare presents: The OpenOnload User-level Network Stack. This talk presents the OpenOnload architecture for user-level networking, which is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for user-space protocol processing of TCP and UDP particularly in latency sensitive applications for the financial markets. We describe our solutions to the challenges outlined […]
Interview: Huawei’s John Roese on the Future of Networking
August 23, 2012 by
This week the Hot Interconnects conference kicked off with a keynote by John Roese, VP and General Manager of Futurewei, Huawei’s North American R&D organization. After the talk, I got a chance to catch up with Roese and ask him about the keynote and where Huawei is headed in the HPC space. Note: You can […]
Video: A Low-Latency Library in FPGA Hardware for High-Frequency Trading
August 23, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXFcM1pGOIE In this video, John Lockwood from Algo-Logic presents: A Low-Latency Library in FPGA Hardware for High-Frequency Trading (HFT). Recorded at the Hot Interconnects 2012 conference in Santa Clara. Current High-Frequency Trading (HFT) platforms are typically implemented in software on computers with high-performance network adapters. The high and unpredictable latency of these systems has led […]
XSEDE12 Student Programming Challenge Showcases Tomorrow’s HPC Leaders
August 23, 2012 by
Nancy Carlos writes about her participation in the recent XSEDE12 conference Student Programming Contest. Each team received identical computational resources — a LittleFe unit running the Bootable Cluster CD software stack — and a set of 10 problems from various scientific problem domain areas, and they had seven hours to complete solutions to the problem […]
ParaSplit: A Scalable Architecture on FPGA for Terabit Packet Classification
August 22, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1RG5Wy3oDs In this video, Jeffrey Fong presents: ParaSplit: A Scalable Architecture on FPGA for Terabit Packet Classification. Packet classification is a fundamental enabling function for various applications in switches, routers and firewalls. Due to their performance and scalability limitations, current packet classification solutions are insufficient in addressing the challenges from the growing network bandwidth and […]
Job of the Week: Cluster Administrator at LANL
August 22, 2012 by
Los Alamos National Lab is seeking a Cluster Administrator in our Job of the Week. The High-Performance Computing Systems Group (HPC-3) provides production supercomputing clusters and storage resources for both large-scale archival and desktop backups. Our services include system deployment, administration, and on-call support for HPC systems, High Performance Storage System (HPSS), and Tivoli Storage […]
