In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Doug Oucharek from Intel presents an Update on Lustre, OpenSFS, and FastForward InfiniBand. Download the slides (PDF). You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery. In related news, slides from LUG 2013 are now posted.
Archives for April 2013
Stanford Exhibit Shows Heyday of Cray Research
April 25, 2013 by
Over at the Chippewa Herald, Rob Stetzer writes that the vintage Cray Research photography by Lee Friedlander now on exhibit at Stanford was not well received by the locals when it was first published in Chippewa Falls. People were not impressed at the time, because it looked bleak,” said Skip August, former director of engineering […]
Video: Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB)
April 24, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Ali Ayoub from Mellanox presents: Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB). Download the slides (PDF). You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.
George Michael Fellowship Helps HPC Community Thrive
April 24, 2013 by
For doctoral candidates in supercomputing, the George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship offers a rapid plug-in to the global network of leading high performance computing organizations, from research institutions to industry. Past recipients report that the fellowship ticket to the annual supercomputing conference (SC) can be a career affirming and life changing experience. Coupled with the […]
Video: RSOCKETS – RDMA for Dummies
April 24, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Sean Hefty from Intel presents: RSOCKETS – RDMA for Dummies. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.
Eadline: Is Hadoop the New HPC?
April 24, 2013 by
Over at Admin HPC, Douglas Eadline writes that Hadoop could be the new corporate HPC for Big Data. The growth of Hadoop and the hardware on which it runs has been increasing. Certainly it can be seen as a subset of HPC, offering a single yet powerful algorithm that has been optimized for a large […]
Video: Lustre on Amazon Web Services
April 24, 2013 by
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Robert Read from Intel presents: Lustre on Amazon Web Services. Download the slides (PDF). You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.
Tsinghua University from Mainland China Wins Asia Student Cluster Challenge
April 24, 2013 by
After five days of fierce rivalry, a team from Tsinghua University in Mainland China have won the first annual Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge. The international competition wrapped up with Tsinghua University from Taiwan as runner up. Huazhong Science and Technology University in Mainland China was awarded the prize of “Best MIC application optimization.” In total, […]
Video: GPUDirect Support for RDMA and Green Multi-GPU Architectures
April 23, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 GPU Technology Conference, Dustin Franklin from GE Intelligent Platforms presents: GPUDirect Support for RDMA and Green Multi-GPU Architectures. View the GE Presentation Slides on Slideshare. This talk caused quite a stir and we have done a number of posts on it including a Radio Free HPC podcast. Note that […]
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Stanford
April 23, 2013 by
Stanford University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. We currently seek a strong candidate to provide technical and systems administration for High Performance Computing clusters, specifically bringing hands-on experience building and supporting Linux clusters and their associated networks and storage devices in a production research environment. Are you paying […]
