Who says that HPC folks don’t know how to have fun? Our Video Sunday feature continues with this Mellanox rendition of the Harlem Shake, an Internet meme that is apparently all the rage at the moment. I had to look it up, but the Harlem Shake is a recent phenomenon, with versions performed by diverse […]
Archives for February 2013
How Intel's True Scale QDR-80 IB Scales for Less
February 23, 2013 by
Intel has been rather quiet about their True Scale InfiniBand products since they acquired QLogic’s IB technology and engineering teams in January 2012. It’s looking like that is starting to change with a series of interviews at The Register and Semi-Accurate that describe how True Scale QDR-80 products measure up to next-generation FDR offerings from […]
Video: LSI and Seneca Power Big Data at PSC
February 23, 2013 by
In this video, technologists from the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center work with LSI and Seneca to deploy high bandwidth SAS solutions for data-intensive computing.
HP Taps Mellanox for Low Latency Blade Switch
February 22, 2013 by
Over at the HP Blog, Steve Barry writes that the days of Blade servers being hampered by the limitations of top-of-rack switches may be over thanks to new technology from Mellanox. Designed specifically for customers that demand performance and raw bandwidth the Mellanox SX1018HP blade switch provides up to sixteen 40Gb server downlinks and up […]
Ember Supercomputer Gets Second Life Aiding Genomics
February 22, 2013 by
NCSA has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology a highly parallel, shared memory supercomputer. Named Ember, the SGI system has become part of the IGB biocluster, adding 1536 cores and eight terabytes of memory spread across four nodes. We’ve been using Ember for a while now through the NCSA, mainly in computational genomics,” said Victor […]
Slidecast: Examining Hadoop as a Big Data Risk
February 22, 2013 by
As Hadoop finds its way into more and more areas data intensive scientific computing, the lack of security in this platform is a continuing challenge. In this slidecast, Brian Christian from Zettaset presents: Examining Hadoop as a Big Data Risk in the Enterprise. While the open source framework has enabled Hadoop to logically grow and […]
Interview: Gerhard Wellein Looks Forward to ISC'13 Keynote
February 22, 2013 by
Over at International Science Grid this Week, Nages Sieslack interviews Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein, who will keynote ISC’13 on Fooling the Masses with Performance Results: Old Classics & Some New Ideas. As a professor for computer science, Wellein teaches HPC at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and also leads the HPC group at the Erlangen Regional […]
With New RFP, OpenSFS to Invest in Critical Open Source Technologies for HPC
February 21, 2013 by
Today OpenSFS released a new Request for Proposals for Lustre feature development feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre technical debt, and new efforts in parallel file system development (incubators). In 2012, OpenSFS invested over $2 million dollars in open source scalable file system technologies, including significant investments in maintaining the canonical Lustre tree, new […]
GPU Technology Conference Keynotes to Feature Pioneering Genomics Researcher and Chrysler Product-Design Visionary
February 21, 2013 by
Today Nvidia announced its lineup of world-class keynote speakers for the fourth-annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif., March 18-21. Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia’s CEO and co-founder will discuss the profound and growing impact of GPU technology in gaming, science, industry, media and entertainment, design […]
How to Passively Monitor Network Round-Trip Times
February 21, 2013 by
Over at the Boundary Blog, Steven Strowes writes that understanding network delay is key to understanding some important aspects of your network performance. This post describes how Boundary uses a well-known TCP mechanism to calculate round-trip times (RTTs) between any two hosts by passively monitoring TCP traffic flows, i.e., without actively launching ICMP echo requests […]
