Archives for February 2013

Video: Introduction to SLURM at CSCS

In this video, Neil Stringfellow from CSCS presents an overview of the SLURM workload manager. This course organized by Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland. In related news, HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference returns to Lugano March 13-15, 2013.

Cray to Leverage Intel Hadoop Distro for Big Data Play in the Enterprise

Today Cray announced a Big Data solution combining the newly announced Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with the Cray Xtreme line of supercomputers. And If you were wondering what Cray had in mind for its acquisition of Appro last year, this announcement may be showing the way. According to the company, the new offering […]

Altair Simplifies Workload Management for HP Insight CMU

Today Altair announced the CMU PBS Professional Connector, which is designed to simplify workload management for HP Insight CMU users. Using the Connector, administrators can automate most common tasks for managing a PBS Professional cluster via CMU. With the CMU PBS Professional Connector, cluster administrators have a much easier way to monitor and manage cluster […]

New Blog on Deploying Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors in Clusters

Over at the Phi Musings blog, Dr. Stuart Midgley from Downunder Geosolutions has been documenting the process of getting Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors working in a cluster. If you want to run native binaries on the Phi, their are a number of serious issues. launching your binary bandwidth to your application authentication onto the phi […]

Slidecast: New DDN hScalar is World's First Enterprise Apache Hadoop Appliance

In this slidecast, Jeff Denworth from DDN describes the company’s new hScalar storage system — the World’s First Enterprise Apache Hadoop Appliance. DDN has developed a Hadoop solution that is all about time to value: It simplifies rollout so that enterprises can get up and running more quickly, provides typical DDN performance to accelerate data […]

Asetek to Cool HPC Clusters at World’s Northernmost University

Today Asetek announced that the company’s liquid cooling technology been chosen by the University of Tromsø in Norway for a pilot installation at the university’s HPC facility. Asetek will reduce energy consumption of the data center and enable waste heat from servers to heat the university campus. As the northern most university of the world, […]

Video: Getting the Most from Multicore with MPI/OpenMP Hybrid Programming

In this video, Neil Stringfellow from CSCS presents: Getting the Best Out of Multi-core. This course organized by Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland. In related news, HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference returns to Lugano March 13-15, 2013.

New Algorithm Could Lower HPC Energy Bills

Over at CIO Australia, Hamish Barwick writes that newly developed algorithms could lower energy bills in HPC datacenters. According to Professor Albert Zomaya at the University of Sydney, the University has patented a “very sophisticated” algorithm that deals with energy consumption by manipulating voltages at a processor level. We know that modern processors can operate […]

Video: PSC's Sherlock Supercomputer Means Business for Graph Computing

In this video, Dr. Nick Nystrom from PSC discusses what makes the Sherlock supercomputer unique and how businesses can take advantage of its graph computing prowess. Sherlock is a YarcData uRiKA (Universal RDF Integration Knowledge Appliance) data appliance with PSC enhancements. It enables large-scale, rapid graph analytics through massive multithreading, a shared address space, sophisticated […]

Provisioning Tips for Cluster Software Packages

Over at HPC Admin, Douglas Eadline writes that adding and removing software from a running cluster is not as difficult as it used to be. Regardless of the provisioning system, the goal is to make changes without having to reboot nodes. Not all changes can be made without booting nodes (i.e., changing the underlying provisioning); […]