In this video from SC13, Mitchell Auster from Ciena describes the company’s collaboration with Research & Education institutions CANARIE, Internet2, and StarLight to build an SDN Testbed meant to spur SDN innovation efforts for the entire industry.
Why SC13 Rocked
December 8, 2013 by
“The next few years will present a unique opportunity for the supercomputer vendors and developers to adopt new cloud tech and for the cloud-based Big Data analytics vendors and developers to adopt high performance computing (HPC) techniques. Both sets of folks understand that this is a really big deal. The dialog was amazing.”
Numascale Builds Scalable Shared Memory Systems at SC13
December 8, 2013 by
In this video from SC13, Einer Rustad from Numascale describes how the company’s innovative products enable you to build scalable shared memory systems from standard servers. The company recently announced the successful validation of the large shared memory NumaConnect cluster at University of Oslo in Norway, which was installed under a prototype PRACE study assessing emerging new technologies for European HPC.
New Moab Task Manager & Support for Intel HPC Distribution for Hadoop
December 7, 2013 by
New innovations from Adaptive Computing include: Moab Task Manager, a localized decision-making tool within Moab’s HPC Suite that enables high-speed throughput on short computing jobs. Adaptive has also announced a partnership with Intel to integrate Moab/TORQUE workload management software with the Intel HPC Distribution for Apache Hadoop software, which combines the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with the Intel Enterprise Edition of Lustre software.
Scality RING: A Petabyte-scale, Software-only Storage Solution
December 6, 2013 by
In this video, Scality CEO Jérôme Lecat describes the company’s innovative RING storage platform that turns generic x86 servers into a reliable, high performance, storage platform.
NCI Powers Research with PBS Pro on the Raijin Supercomputer
December 6, 2013 by
In this video from SC13, Lindsay Botten and Allan Williams from NCI describe how they use Altair PBS Pro to manage workloads on the Raijin supercomputer.
Avere Delivers Storage Solutions for the HPC Cloud Era
December 6, 2013 by
In this video from SC13, Jeff Tabor from Avere Systems describes the company’s optimized NAS storage solutions including the new Cloud NAS. “Avere has always been on the forefront of pushing the boundaries of file storage performance and efficiency. Avere Cloud NAS is a natural evolution of the product, advancing the adoption of cloud storage for serious business use cases.”
Aeon Computing Ties HPC All Together at SC13
December 6, 2013 by
Aeon Computing was recently selected by the San Diego Supercomputer Center to build and deploy a 7 PetabyteLustre parallel file system as part of the new petascale-level Comet supercomputer. The performance of the 7 PB (Petabyte) filesystem will exceed 200 Gigabytes per second.
Panel Discussion: “And You Thought HPC Virtualization was never going to happen”
December 5, 2013 by
HPC clusters have become a cornerstone for many scientific fields including some we’d never expected, such as biology. Virtualization is essential to a vast new era of systems and has (with some hype) given birth to ‘The Cloud’. The two are not necessarily incompatible and work is being done to bring benefits that enterprise users of virtualization enjoy to the HPC arena. This panel will challenge old notions, update you on current activities and provoke a debate about what’s needed for the future.
Exablaze Latency-Optimized Hardware is an Eye-Opener at SC13
December 5, 2013 by
“The ExaNIC X4 is a continuation of our efforts to be the leader in latency-optimized hardware development. We have been rethinking and redesigning ultra-low-latency hardware for years and the ExaNIC X4 is the latest generation of network card to evolve from our research and development lab.”
