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Slidecast: Convey Hybrid Core Computing Rocks the Graph 500 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3r_AmM3KS4 In this slidecast, Convey CEO Bruce Toal describes the advantages of the company’s hybrid core architecture for graph computing. Convey recently announced that the company has joined the ranks of the world’s most powerful computer systems for data-intensive computing with its performance on the Graph 500 benchmark. “Convey’s architecture is the ideal complement to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: Xyratex Launches ClusterStor Lustre Storage Appliancewww.youtube.com/watch?v=Hke8VedwW5s In this video, Ken Claffey from Xyratex presents the company’s new ClusterStor Appliance for Lustre-based HPC storage. Today the company announced the ClusterStor 3000 will be available exclusively through OEMs in the fourth quarter of this year. “The University of Cambridge is a very experienced Lustre user and we have found the ClusterStor 3000 to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: So You Want To Get To Exascale?Mike Bernhardt from The Exascale Report writes that we need a reality check when it comes to developing a supercomputer with 1000x today’s performance by 2018: Unfortunately, a number of people in government see exascale as just a very large procurement. Lots of computers requiring lots of power. But the truth is, commercial computer manufacturers have absolutely [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: The Secret Sauce in Cray’s XK6 Hybrid SupercomputerIn this podcast, Cray’s Barry Bolding describes the secret sauce in the company’s new Cray XK6 hybrid supercomputer. Scalable to 50 Petaflops, the Cray XK6 is expected to start shipping later this year. Capable of tens of millions of MPI messages per second, the Gemini ASIC complements current and future massively multicore and many-core processors. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: Texas Memory Systems Unleashes 900 GB Gorillawww.youtube.com/watch?v=hdipLqeISTE In this slidecast, Jamon Bowen from Texas Memory Systems presents an update on the company’s SSD storage products. Their new RamSan-70 “Gorilla” is a high-performance, half-length PCIe card with 900 GB of usable SLC Flash capacity. Delivering 330K IOPS and 2 GB/s of bandwidth, the Gorilla reportedly has higher performance and greater capacity than [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: Nvidia Tesla 2090–World’s Fastest HPC Processorwww.youtube.com/watch?v=QZlYH8VETrY In this slidecast, Nvidia’s Roy Kim and Andy Walsh provide an update on the all-new Tesla 2090 HPC processor. In the latest version of AMBER 11, one of the most widely used applications used by scientific researchers for simulating behaviors of biomolecules, four Tesla M2090 GPUs delivered record performance of 69 nanoseconds of simulation [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: Cycle Cloud HPC Clusters – 10,000 Cores in 45 Minuteswww.youtube.com/watch?v=oiwRS_E-uhg In this slidecast, Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe describes how the company provisioned a 10,000-core, top 114-equivalent supercomputer utilizing its CycleCloud service. Since 2005, Cycle has helped clients maximize the world’s compute resources through its reliable, secure and elastic high performance computing (HPC) solutions, both internally and in the cloud. CycleCloud massively scaled up [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: Samplify Prism FP Takes Floating-Point Compression to the Maxwww.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmSDsJ5g6c In this podcast, Samplify VP Allan Evans describes the company’s advanced floating-point compression technology called Prism FP. Learn more at Samplify.com. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe on other podcast players Related posts:Slidecast: Maze – Testing and Debugging Tool for Concurrent ApplicationsSlidecast: ISC to Launch HPC in Asia Workshop, Spotlight on ExascaleSlidecast: [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: DoD Mod Chooses Panasas for Multiple DatacentersIn this podcast, Ron Mowery and Mike Moritzkat from Panasas discuss the company’s recent win at the DoD Modernization Office. As part of a subcontract by Lockheed Martin to supply department-wide storage and parallel file system infrastructure to the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), Panasas storage will be deployed at four DoD HPC centers [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Supercomputing for Personalized MedicineIn this EarthSky podcast, Jorge Salazar interviews Aleksei Aksimentiev, who is using the world’s fastest computers to scrutinize DNA. With a goal to make personal genomics affordable for all, Aksimentiev wants to enable future doctors to tailor medical procedures to your genetic makeup. This is a very interesting story because 10 years back, the costs [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: ISC to Launch HPC in Asia Workshop, Spotlight on Exascalewww.youtube.com/watch?v=BhlguAepzMk In this slidecast, Rich Brueckner (insideHPC) and Mike Bernhardt (The Exascale Report) interview Martin Meuer, Director of Operations for ISC. This year, the International Supercomputing Conference (June 19-23 in Hamburg) is launching and all-new HPC in Asia Workshop on June 19, 2011. Meuer describes the goals for the workshop along with plans for an [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Slidecast: Maze – Testing and Debugging Tool for Concurrent Applicationswww.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnuVkm-rXY In this podcast, I interview Roni Simonian, Founder & Principal of Ariadne LLC. The company’s Maze Testing and Debugging Tool for Concurrent Applications is now available for Beta customers. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe on other podcast players Related posts:Slidecast: Hadapt’s Adaptive Query Execution Speeds Big Data in the CloudSlidecast: [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Mellanox Rolls Out SwitchX FDR InfiniBand with 40 GigE Built InIn this podcast, John Monson from Mellanox describes the company’s new SwitchX architecture for high performance computing. The new class of data centers requires lossless, high density, low power switching capabilities that removes bottlenecks, supports convergence and maximizes efficiency for the best return-on-investment,” said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president, and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “SwitchX delivers [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Clustercorp Turns up the Volume on Rocks with New Round of FundingIn this podcast, I interview Clustercorp’s newest employees: Mason Katz, CTO, and Greg Bruno, VP of Engineering. As key developers of the Rocks open source software, Bruno and Katz came over to Clustercorp last week to bolster the commercial version of Rocks.
As announced this morning, Clustercorp has just completed its first round of institutional funding, which [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Grid Dynamics CEO Victoria Livschitz on Delivering Cloud ScalabilityIn this podcast, I interview Victoria Livschitz, President & CEO of Grid Dynamics. As an engineering company, Grid Dynamics has helped companies like eBay, Paypal, and Microsoft build next-generation, mission-critical systems that deliver extreme scalability and elasticity.
In our cloud computing survey of engineers, we learned that they are all about scalability and elasticity, the very [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: China, Technology and US anxiety
In this podcast from Australia’s FutureTense program, host Anthony Funnell looks at why China’s technology advancements are viewed as a growing threat to US competitiveness.
Jack Dongarra: This isn’t really a race in terms of who has the fastest computer. It’s more a sign of who has the technology, and who is willing to invest in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Programming for RDMA Using OFA SoftwareIn this podcast, I interview Rupert Dance and Tom Stachura from the Open Fabrics Alliance. OFA has a new course offering designed to help you take full advantage of RDMA to improve your data center’s performance and cost effectiveness. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a powerful programming paradigm finding widespread adoption in many large systems – [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Decision HPC Provides Business Analytics for Your ClusterIn this podcast, I interview Deepak Khosala, President of X-ISS (eXcellence in IS Solutions, Inc.). The company’s HPC solutions range from complete outsourced system management to DecisionHPC, a web-based monitoring & analytics software package.
Many users of HPC systems are interested in maximizing system productivity and ensuring business goals are aligned with system usage. Decision HPC [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: A Sneak Peek at AMD’s 16-core BulldozerIn this podcast, I discuss AMD’s position in the HPC market with John Fruehe, Director of Product Marketing for Server/Workstation products. John is an avid blogger at AMD and he offers his perspective on multicore, GPGPUs, the TOP500, and the pending 16-core AMD Bulldozer processors that will start shipping in 2011. Download the MP3 or [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Penguin On Demand is One Cloud That’s All About HPCIn this podcast, Penguin Computing product manager Arend Dittmer shares his insights into what the company has learned from 18 months of Penguin on Demand. The POD cloud is all about HPC and they built it that way from ground up.
How does POD deal with the thorny issues of security, latency, Big Data, and predictable [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: CERN Bolsters Worldwide LHC Computing Grid with Brocade 100 GbEIn this podcast, we discuss CERN’s pending network upgrades to their Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid. My guests are Jean-Michel Jouanigot, Communication Systems Group Leader at CERN and Maria Iordache, HPC Business Development Manager from Brocade.
Brocade’s MLXe solution met our stringent requirements (we test products to destruction), and will not just deliver a solution for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: AMAX Showcases GPU Solutions & Personal Supercomputers at SC10In this podcast, I discuss the latest HPC developments at AMAX with Matt Thauberger, the company’s Corporate Technology Advisor, and Julia Shih, Strategic Alliance Manager. Download the MP3 or Subscribe on iTunes.
AMAX made a number of announcements around SC10 including:
ServMax Xn-5801G High-Density GPGPU Cluster Solution is a 1792-GPU core server with 8 x86 sockets in a 5U [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: LSI Introduces High Density, High Performance Storage SystemIn this podcast, LSI’s Steve Hochberg describes the company’s newly announced high-density Engenio 2600-HD storage system, which consists of two LSITM 6Gb/s SAS-based controllers integrated into the new Engenio DE6600 high-density SAS drive enclosure. The system is capable of sustaining up to 4GB/s of throughput and housing up to 60 SAS drives in a 4U space.
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Podcast: HP’s Marc Hamilton on Record GPU Cluster Efficiency at SC10In this podcast, Marc Hamilton, HP’s Vice President of HPC gives us a summary of the company’s announcements and TOP500 results, including the #4 Tsubame 2 system at Tokyo Tech. Download the MP3 or Subscribe on iTunes.
Related posts:Podcast: Q&A with Marc Hamilton, HP’s New Vice President of HPCInsideTrack: Hamilton to head global HPC sales at SunPodcast: Supermicro [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Supermicro Fires Up GPUs and Many-Core Blades at SC10In this podcast, I interview Tao Leng, GM of Supermicro. Of note is Supermicro’s announcement of a blade enclosure that has up to 2,880 x86 cores in a single 42U rack.
When powered by new 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series (Socket G34) processors, the TwinBlade enables up to 2,880 processing cores, 240 SATA drives and 15TB of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
insideHPC Podcast Roundup for Your Long FlightI’ve recorded a number of podcasts in the past month or so. In case you missed them, I wrangled them all up for you here in case you want to load up your iPod for the flight to SC10.
Xyratex Ramps Up for Full-Scale Lustre Initiative
Oak Ridge Team Plans SC10 Session for Women in HPC
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Podcast: Xyratex Ramps Up for Full-Scale Lustre InitiativeIn this podcast, Mike Stolz and Steve Paulhus from Xyratex discuss their recent acquisition of ClusterStor and how the merged company plans to serve the Lustre community.
Xyratex has been around for a long time as an OEM company, and their storage products are re-labeled by nearly all the big-name HPC vendors out there.
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Podcast: Xyratex Ramps Up for Full-Scale Lustre InitiativeIn this podcast, Mike Stolz and Steve Paulhus from Xyratex discuss their recent acquisition of ClusterStor and how the merged company plans to serve the Lustre community.
Xyratex has been around for a long time as an OEM company, and their storage products are re-labeled by nearly all the big-name HPC vendors out there.
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Podcast: Pervasive Datarush First to TeraCUPS Performance on BioinformaticsAccording to their web site, Pervasive DataRush has a simple mission: Simplify How You Process and Analyze Big Data. The company’s product is a parallel dataflow platform that eliminates performance bottlenecks in big data preparation and analytics.
Pervasive Datarush set a remarkable performance record recently on an SGI Altix system with 384 cores. These types of benchmarks [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Interview With Jack Dongarra on the TOP 5 SupersIn this podcast interview, Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee talks to a British radio audience about the five fastest supercomputers in the world. To illustrate the speed of the new 2.5 Petaflop Tianhe-1A system in China, he uses an analogy describing the huge Neyland Stadium in Tennessee. Even against a stadium full of a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast: Interview with Massively Parallel’s CEO, Bobbi HazardLast week, Massively Parallel Technologies unveiled their Blue Cheetah “application ecosystem software” for modern cloud computing environments. With their first product Blue Cheetah Cub now in beta release, the company hopes to provide an all new way of organizing a developer community, defining application software functionality, establishing collaboration, and constructing cloud applications.
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Podcast: New Exascale Report Tracks the FutureIn this podcast, I interview John West and Mike Bernhardt, founders of The Exascale Report. This new, subscription-based publication offers insider reporting on the technologies and initiatives that are in the works for Exascale computing in the coming decade.
If you look at Exascale efforts internationally, you really find very little awareness among the different groups [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Getting to exascale: a podcast interview with Intel’s chief supercomputing architectThis podcast is part of the exclusive video, audio, and feature series at insideHPC.com called HPC in 2010, a look ahead at the technologies, issues, and opportunities our community will be facing in 2010. In this installment of the series, I talk to Bill Camp, the Chief Supercomputing Architect at Intel.
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Green HPC Podcast Episode 6: Green technologies of the futureThere is a lot of activity — and a lot of hype! — today around the ways in which vendors and large supercomputing centers are trying to reduce their power usage while still getting useful work done. But there is only so much you can do adapting today’s technology, and to truly transform our approach to energy use in HPC we will need new technologies for operations and instrumentation, control system software, operating systems, job schedulers, computational algorithms, chip design, ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 5 of the green HPC podcast series: Turning up the heatTypical machine rooms today operate between 20 and 25 degrees C, about 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, an operating range comes from a time when it was the people in the room that needed cooling, not the computers. And even experienced datacenter managers spend a lot of time and energy building clusters out of servers with components they don’t need, in buildings that are way cleaner than they need to be.
In this episode we talk with Argonne’s Pete Beckman and Microsoft’s Christian Bela ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with the InfiniBand Trade AssociationDuring SC09 week I grabbed some time at the end of a day to sit down with Bryan Sparks and Jim Ryan in their capacities as members of the InfiniBand Trade Association (they both have day jobs; Brian is with Mellanox and Jim works for Intel). During our conversation we touched on the IBTA’s ten-year [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Dell: a discussion about Cray, competition, and partnerships in HPCDuring SC week I sat down with Donnie Bell, senior manager in the enterprise marketing group, to talk about the announcement that Dell would be marketing a version of Cray’s CX1 to low-end HPC users. This audio is much more two way than some of the other conversations I’ve posted, because I was curious about [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Adaptive ComputingAs part of my audio catch-up from SC09 here is my conversation with Michael Jackson, the Co-founder, President, and COO of Adaptive Computing (formerly known as Cluster Resources). Michael is talking about Adaptive’s news during the week of the show: Moab’s connection with Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager and HP’s plans to resell Moab Adaptive Computing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Avere SystemsThis year, as with last year, I recorded a bunch of audio during my meetings at SC. Unlike last year, however, I didn’t get hardly anything up during the show. So over the next several days I’ll be mending that sin as I work through my audio backlog.
In this segment Ron Bianchini, the President and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Cycle ComputingOn Monday while the exhibit floor was still under construction I stopped by Cycle Computing's booth to talk with Jason Stowe, the CEO of Cycle Computing. To be honest, I went to the Cycle Computing booth thinking that there wasn't going to be much there of interest to me. But in one of those great surprises that keeps me coming back to SC each year, I came away thinking there was a lot to the company's technology. With customers from the very large (Lockheed Martin and Johnson&Johnson, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with MicrosoftOn Monday while the exhibit floor was still under construction I stopped by Microsoft's booth, recorder in hand, to talk with Kyril Faenov, General Manager of Microsoft's Technical Computing Group. It was an interesting chance to talk not only about the beta release of the latest version of Microsoft HPC Server, but also to get a walk-through of Microsoft's strategy for HPC -- from the desktop to Top10 systems and everything in between -- including a petascale GPU system that the company is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 4 of the green HPC podcast series: Stop pampering your processors!The use of commodity components in HPC has made supercomputers bigger and cheaper to buy while driving their operating costs through the roof. Where once stood 100 KW supercomputers, systems of 1,000 KW and up are common. Even if you aren't motivated to save the environment, you probably are getting a lot of pressure to reduce costs. But where to start? By not pampering your processors.
Generally datacenter managers today follow ASHRAE guidelines when deciding how to cool their machine ro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 3 of the green HPC podcast series: what’s in it for me?Despite the rhetoric, saving the environment doesn’t seem to be what motivates HPC people to go green. In episode three of the Green HPC Podcast series, we look at the reasons that people have for caring about green in HPC, and in particular what do large datacenters get out of going green. Change is hard, so why are datacenter owners and managers making the change?
We talked to IBM’s Dave Turek about what the company was thinking 10 years ago when they started thinking about Blue Gene ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 2 of the Green HPC podcast seriesIn the second episode of the Green HPC podcast series we talk to IT and HPC industry leaders about the primary drivers for the adoption of energy aware (“green”) computing practices in IT at large, and then home in on HPC and how the customers, workloads, and solutions differ between the two.
In the Green HPC podcast series we are examining the issues that datacenter managers and system designers are facing with high performance computing systems of all sizes today. Even if you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Introducing Episode 1 of the Green HPC Podcast SeriesIn the inaugural episode of the Green HPC podcast series we will examine the issues that datacenter managers and system designers are facing with high performance computing systems of all sizes today. Even if you aren’t “green at heart,” there are very practical and compelling reasons why a growing awareness of energy use in your datacenter -- how much, where it goes, and what it costs you -- is critical to your success.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rocks Gurus Interviewed by TechGurusEveryone’s favorite Rocks cluster team members, Philip Papadopoulos and Greg Bruno, were recently interviewed as a part of the FLOSS Weekly podcast show [episode 30]. They were interviewed courtesy of Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte, formerly of TechTV fame. The questions weren’t directly focused on the traditional role of Rocks in the HPC world, but [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rocks Gurus Interviewed by Tech GurusEveryone’s favorite Rocks cluster team members, Philip Papadopoulos and Greg Bruno, were recently interviewed as a part of the FLOSS Weekly podcast show [episode 30]. They were interviewed courtesy of Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte, formerly of TechTV fame. The questions weren’t directly focused on the traditional role of Rocks in the HPC world, but [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Daily Takeout for February4In today's Takeout we count yet one more reason it sucks to be AMD as we consider recently reported news that AMD may be losing out as the chip vendor of choice on the KISTI supercomputer. You can find the original story by Michael Feldman at http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/04/korean-super-may-bail-on-amd-switch-to-intel/.
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Daily Takeout for January31In today's Takeout we talk a little about SGI's 14k core New Mexico system, and what it means to be up and running in 48 hours. You can find the original story at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/30/14k-core-nm-altix-up-in-48-hours/.
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