The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), which has one of the largest SANs in U.S. academia, is overhauling its hulking 28-Pbyte storage system to support some spectacular data growth:
"Sun/StorageTek tape libraries account for most of SDSC’s SAN infrastructure, containing up to 25 Pbytes of data. This is supplemented by 2.5 Pbytes of disk storage on Sun Fire 15K and 12K servers, DataDirect Networks S2A Arrays, and a 50-Tbyte AMS system from HDS." Full Story
Please join Sun Microsystems and Acumem for an informative seminar on High Performance Computing for the Financial Services Industry in New York City on July 23, 2008. Two topics will be presented:
1. Building the world's largest Open Architecture Supercomputer (62,976 cores) – Sun Microsystems The challenges and constraints involved in the build out of supercomputing architectures aligns directly with the HPC requirements of Financial Services firms; open and commodity off the shelf components, high speed network fabrics, multicore modular compute systems, open storage, general-purpose I/O, distributed resource management, space, power/cooling etc. Hear about Sun's successful deployment of the the world's most powerful open-standards supercomputer and learn how you can apply the same breakthroughs and HPC best practices on a smaller scale to achieve your objectives.
In this video, Jan Pechanec and Mark Phalan presents on New Security Features in OpenSolaris. Recorded at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague, June 26, 2008.
In this video, Wolfgang Ley presents on the OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework. Recorded at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 26, 2008.
Ed note: Audio issues with this program have been resolved.
In this video, Wolfgang Ley presents on the OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework. Recorded at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 26, 2008.
In this video, Adriaan de Groot presents developing in C++ with OpenSolaris and Sun Studio 12. Recorded at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.
In this video, Alexander Eremin: MilaX presents on the OpenSolaris small LiveCD distro. Recorded at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 26, 2008.
In this video, Petr Tomášek, Aleš Černošek, and Robert Malovec present tutorials on the Translation of OpenSolaris. Recorded at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.
In this video, Dominic Kay and Jeff Cheeney present on OpenSolaris Storage technologies you can use today. Recorded at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.
In this video, Rafael Vanoni Polanczyk presents on OpenSolaris and NUMA Architectures. Recorded at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.
In this video, Max Bruning presents on the ZFS On-Disk Format Using mdb and zdb. Recorded at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.
In this video, Nikolay Piskun, Director of Continuing Engineering, Totalview Technologies presents on the company's HPC solutions. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany on June 16, 2008.
Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the same point made by many (but not all) financial services executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and retailing) has become a technology business, where every ounce of performance and differentiation matters. Even, and especially, in the midst of market turmoil.
In this video, Sun's Peter Bojanic presents on the roadmap for the Lustre file system. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany, June 15, 2008.
In this video, Georgetown's Arnie Miles presents on the Thebes project. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany, June 15, 2008.
In this video, TACC's Karl Schulz presents on the TACC Ranger System, which was recently ranked as the fourth fastest supercomputer on the planet according to TOP500.org. Recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany on June 20, 2008. Download PDF
Welcome to the fourth edition of the SC08 Newsletter. This newsletter offers attendees, exhibitors, media and other interested parties useful, up-to-date information about SC08. This month, pay close attention to upcoming submission deadlines for the Challenges, Seymour Cray Computer Engineering and Sidney Fernbach Memorial Awards, Technical Program, and the Doctoral Showcase. Details follow below in the newsletter
This week's "Sun HPC News" covers the selection of Sun's high performance computing technologies to support the Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering (C²A²S²E) and Sao Paulo University's Computer Capacity Integration (GridUNESP) compute cluster. Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 Early Access 2 is now available for download. Sun also has released a statement of support for middleware products on a variety of system virtualization technologies
HPC Wire's Michael Feldman writes that enormous data sets are forcing us to rethink the way traditional science is performed:
Sun Microsystems has won the first contract in Germany for the installation of a HPC cluster for commercial applications based on Sun's Petascale architecture. The Petascale architecture was developed in-house at Sun under the name "Sun Constellation System," and was presented to the public for the first time at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany last year.
In this video, Sun's Roman Shaposhnik presents on OpenSolaris as an ideal development platform. Recorded at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 25, 2008.
Sun Microsystems today announced Sao Paulo University (UNESP) has chosen Sun to power the largest computing cluster in Latin America which will span across seven different sites in São Paulo State.
