Archives for April 2013

Video: Lustre 2.5 and Beyond

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Andreas Dilger from Intel presents: Lustre 2.5 and Beyond. Download the slides (PDF) or check out our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

Study: Extreme Weather to Increase, Doubling Economic Losses by 2050

Over at Oak Ridge National Labs, Katie Elyce Freeman writes that simulations show that losses from extreme weather damage could double by 2050.   A side effect of America’s growth has been the tendency to put more people, infrastructure and assets in harm’s way, and when a storm comes through, that increased exposure drives up […]

Video: The Sofware-defined Datacenter & RDMA in Virtual Environments

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, VMware’s Josh Simons presents: The Sofware-defined Datacenter. The software-defined datacenter vision took the industry by storm in 2012. It represents a prescriptive model that brings the benefits of virtualization to the rest of the datacenter. Expect to see the move towards a software-defined datacenter accelerate […]

Mark Seager Presents: Criteria for a Scalable Achitecture

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Mark Seager from Intel presents: Criteria for a Scalable Achitecture. Download the Slides (PDF). You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

Indiana University Dedicates Big Red II Supercomputer

Today Indiana University unveiled the Big Red II supercomputer, a hybrid petascale Cray system. There are other universities that hold legal title to computers as fast or faster than Big Red II, but IU is the first in the world to have its own one petaFLOPS supercomputer as a dedicated university resource,” said Craig Stewart, […]

Video: InfiniBand Fabric Administration for Linux

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Rupert Dance from Software Forge presents: InfiniBand Fabric Administration for Linux. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

HPC Advisory Council European Workshop Coming to Leipzig June 16

The HPC Advisory Council will hold their 2013 European Conference on June 16th, 2013, in conjunction with the ISC’13 conference in Leipzig, Germany. The workshop will focus on HPC productivity and futures, and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in supercomputing. The […]

High Performance RDMA-based Design for Big Data and Web 2.0 memcached

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, D.K. Panda from Ohio State University presents: High Performance RDMA-based Design for Big Data and Web 2.0 memcached. Check out more presentation videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery. Most of the slides from the Workshop have been posted as well.

Student Programming Competition Coming to XSEDE13 this Summer

Students from high school to grad school levels are invited to participate in a programming contest at XSEDE13 high performance computing conference, which takes place in San Diego on July 22-25. Created as an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition, the XSEDE13 Student Programming Competition aims to introduce the next […]

Video: Accelerating Big Data over RDMA

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Sreev Doddabalapur from Mellanox presents: Accelerating Big Data over RDMA. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.