This may interest you: 2011

2011/12/22

[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
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2012/04/10
[san-tech][03516] "Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration", April 9, 2012
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:34:42 +0900
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ちょっとした驚きです。

"Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
December 21, 2011
http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html

2011/12/21

[san-tech][03428] Slide: 5th Extremely Large Databases Conference (2011/10/18, 19)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:29 +0900
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2011年 10月 18、19日に開催された

5th Extremely Large Databases Conference
October 18-19, 2011
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2011/

の講演資料が公開されています。

[san-tech][03427] Re: International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:27:31 +0900
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[san-tech][03425] International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap,
Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)
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LTO Generation 8 (最大 32TB) までのロードマップの発表が 2010年 4月 14日
なので、128TBの出荷は・・・

"LTO Program Extends Product Roadmap Through Generation 8"
April 14, 2010
http://ultrium.com/pdf/LTO%20Roadmap%20Extension%20041410.pdf

LTO Roadmap
http://ultrium.com/technology/roadmap.html
http://ultrium.com/technology/LTO_8GenChart_2011.jpg

[san-tech][03425] International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:31:52 +0900
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Information Storage Industry Consortiumから、2011年 11月 30日に

International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap
Part I: Applications & Systems (60p)
NOVEMBER 2011
http://www.insic.org/news/A&S%20Roadmap.pdf

が公開されました。

[san-tech][03424] Slide: 22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:25:09 +0900
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2011年 11月 29, 30日に開催された

22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop
29-30 November 2011
http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/disco/mew22/index.html

の講演資料が公開されています (一部非公開)。

2011/12/16

[san-tech][03423] "NILFS 2.0.22 was released", Jun 19, 2011 JST.

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:29:38 +0900
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国産 (?) Log Structured File System: NILFSも継続してますね：

NILFS
http://www.nilfs.org/ja/index.html
http://www.nilfs.org/en/index.html

[san-tech][03422] PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version 2.1, 2011-10-13

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:02:37 +0900
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[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
> "Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
> December 21, 2011
> http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html
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ちょっとマニアックかもしれませんが、PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System
の開発が進行しています：

PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications
http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/
"PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications"
John Bent, Garth Gibson, Gary Grider, Ben McClelland,
Paul Nowoczynski, James Nunez, Milo Polte, Meghan Wingate
SC '09
http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/plfs.pdf

2011/12/11

[san-tech][03421] Research Note: Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:11:39 +0900
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こちらも Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) ワークショップです。
Research Noteが公開されています：

2nd International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance
Computer Systems (PMBS11), November 13th 2011
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~sdh/pmbs11/PMBS11/Workshop_Schedule.html

[san-tech][03420] Paper: 1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases at SC '11(2011/11/18)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:58:04 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていたこちらのワークショップの
ペーパーが公開されています：

1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases
November 18, 2011
http://hpcdb.org/program

[san-tech][03419] "2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments", ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:01 +0900
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ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc.) Technical Committee (TC) 9.9 から以下のホワイトペーパが
公開されてました：

"2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments"
Whitepaper prepared by ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9
Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces, and Electronic Equipment
2011/09/23
http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/documents/ASHRAE%202011%20Liquid%20Cooling%20Whitepaper.pdf

[san-tech][03418] Slide, Paper: 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop at SC '11 (2011/11/13)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:27:19 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていた：

6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
held in conjunction with Supercomputing '11
November 13, 2011
http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW11/

のペーパーと講演資料が上記 Webサイトで公開されています。

[san-tech][03417] Slide: OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) at Supercomputing 11 (SC '11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:47:35 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) での、OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) メンバー
発表資料が公開されました：

SC11
This folder contains the presentations by members at Supercomputing 2011
(SC11) in November, 2011.
https://www.openfabrics.org/resources/document-downloads/presentations/cat_view/57-ofa-documents/23-presentations/39-trade-shows/72-sc11.html
※ブラウザーによってはアクセス出来ない場合があります。

2011/12/09

[san-tech][03416] IBM GPFS Native RAID & USENIX LISA '11

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:46:00 +0900
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2012/12/03
"Managing multi-petabyte disk systems using GPFS Native RAID"
Crispin Keable - IBM
23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23), 27, 28/11/2012
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/uploads/mew23/keable.pdf

23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23) - Agenda (Slides)
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/mew23?agenda=1
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2012/04/21
[san-tech][03535] IBM GPFS V3.5 Release, EMEA, April 10, 2012
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:47:04 +0900
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現在開催中の USENIX LISA '11 (Dec. 4 - 9, 2011) の Technical Session
INVITED TALKS II, December 8で発表されている

"GPFS Native RAID for 100,000-Disk Petascale Systems"
Veera Deenadhayalan, IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/tech/slides/deenadhayalan.pdf

[san-tech][03415] pNFS in Technology Preview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:41:57 +0900
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先頃発表された Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2に pNFS関連が含まれています

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 - What's New
http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RHEL_6_2_features_benefits.pdf

Parallel NFS (pNFS) in Technology Preview
Transfer rates faster than NFS support
*) pNFS is an extension of NFS that provides significantly larger data
   transfer rates compared to the traditional NFS architectures. This
   is achieved by processing the meta-data (a typical bottle neck for
   I/O throughput) separately from the actual data. By separating
   the meta-data and the data paths, pNFS allows clients to access
   storage devices directly and in parallel. pNFS is a part of standard
   NFS version 4.1 specification.
*) Support for pNFS is limited to client-side functionality for file
   layout only.

[san-tech][03414] TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720 (12-TB, SLC, 1U), December 6, 2011

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:02:33 +0900
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Twitterで URLは流したのですが、

"TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720
(12-TB, SLC, 1U) Flash storage system that scales to 500-TB within a single rack"
December 6, 2011
http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/149

"The RamSan-720 offers 12 TB of Flash capacity, 5 GB/s of bandwidth,
   and no single point of failure. Its proprietary 2D Flash RAID
   technology delivers a new level of High Availability and data
   protection for mission-critical data sets."

2011/12/08

[san-tech][03413] Re: Slide: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011 (2011/12/06, 07)

Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:58:05 +0900
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2011年 12月 6、7と開催された：

HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011, December 6-7, 2011
http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/Stanford-Workshop/index.php

の講演資料が公開されています。

2011/12/04

[san-tech][03410] Slide: October 2011 Open Networking Summit (2011/10/17 - 19)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:19:50 +0900
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2011年 10月 17日～19日に開催された

October 2011 Open Networking Summit
http://opennetsummit.org/past_conferences.html

の講演資料等が上記 Webページで公開されています。

Two tutorials
Keynote Session
Power of SDN: Shaping the Future
SDN for Data Center Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
SDN for Enterprise Networks: Technology, Applications, Markets
Keynote and ONF Information session
SDN for Service Provider Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
Wrap up Panel: Opportunities and Challenges with OpenFlow/SDN in the Market Place

[san-tech][03409] "日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU（国際電気通信連合）の国際規格として採用"、2012/12/02

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:07:50 +0900
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株式会社日立製作所と株式会社日立プラントテクノロジーのプレスリリースです：

"日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU（国際電気通信連合）
の国際規格として採用"
2011年12月2日
株式会社日立製作所
株式会社日立プラントテクノロジー
http://www.hitachi-pt.co.jp/news/2011/pdf/20111202.pdf

[san-tech][03407] Slide: Server Design Summit 2011 (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:26:44 +0900
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2011年 11月 29、30日に開催された：

Server Design Summit 2011
http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/

講演資料が公開されています。

Get the Server Design Summit Proceedings
http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/Array_Pages/Entrance_Proceedings.html

[san-tech][03405] Re: 東大京大でスパコンメーカ交代

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:48:57 +0900
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京大次期スーパーコンピュータシステムについて Registerの記事です：

"Cray notches another XE6-Cascades super deal",
Dancing the Japanese two-step,
29th November 2011,
The Register,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/cray_xe6_cascade_super_kyoto_university/

2011/10/07

[san-tech][03398] "OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team from PLX Technology", 2011-10-05

Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:23:22 -0400
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"OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team from PLX Technology"
Experienced R&D Team and Access to Intellectual Property to Speed Time
to Market and Reduce Development Costs for Company’s Next Generation
SSD Solutions
2011-10-05
http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/453

"... today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire
the UK Design Team and certain assets from PLX Technology, further
strengthening the company’s global research and development team."

"PLX's UK Design Team has built a reputation for designing innovative
and reliable system-on-chip (SOC) solutions and the acquired
engineering team’s expertise provides OCZ with additional resources
for controller design. Through the acquisition of the engineering
team and the license of intellectual property (IP), OCZ will be able
to accelerate solid state drive development, reducing its time
to market for next generation SSD products, while also reducing
development costs."

2011/10/05

[san-tech][03396] "Red Hat to Acquire Gluster", October 4, 2011

Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:16:23 -0400
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"Red Hat to Acquire Gluster"
*) Ushers in New Era of Software-Based Open Storage Platforms to
Unify On-Premise and Cloud
*) Adds Scale-Out Management of Unstructured Data to Red Hat Portfolio
with Gluster's Disruptive Open Source Storage Solutions
October 4, 2011
http://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/press-release.html
http://www.gluster.com/2011/10/04/red-hat-to-acquire-gluster/

"... today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement
to acquire Gluster, Inc., a leading provider of scale-out,
open source storage solutions for standardizing the management
of unstructured data. With this acquisition,"

2011/10/03

[san-tech][03395] Fusion-io: ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, Oct. 3, 2011

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:55:29 -0400
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Fusion-ioからのプレスリリースです：

"New Storage Class Memory Beats Fusion ioDrive On All Metrics"
Next-Generation Enterprise Flash Product Delivers More Capacity,
Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Better Performance, All at
a Lower Cost: Introducing the New ioDrive2 from Fusion-io
Oct. 3, 2011
http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/new-storage-class-memory-beats-fusion-iodrive-on-all-metrics/
http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1g1rrm/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioDrive2_FINAL.pdf

"... today announced the next evolution of its ioMemory platform
for powering application acceleration and data center optimization.
The company that broke performance barriers, brought you the first
enterprise MLC products, dramatically enhanced reliability metrics
for enterprise flash, and redefined server side flash has done it
all over again with the new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo."
.....
*) System level integration with the latest Fusion-io VSL 3.0 software
subsystem

Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of the Universe, Sep. 29, 2011

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"Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of
the Universe Announced by Authors from University of California,
New Mexico State University"
September 29, 2011
http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/News.html

"Two research articles describing the most accurate cosmological
simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of
the universe yet made" ... "The results calculated by the Bolshoi
simulation - spectacular visualizations of what the universe was
like at time steps 40 million or 80 million years apart - are
being made publicly available to the world’s astronomers and
astrophysicists..."

[san-tech][03394] Violin Memory: Violin 6000 Series & Violin 3220, Sep. 27, 2011

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:13:40 -0400
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2012/04/20
[san-tech][03534] Violin Memory vRAID Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:29:45 +0900
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Violin Memoryから新シリーズと新製品の発表がありました：

"VIOLIN MEMORY LAUNCHES POWERFUL NEW PRODUCTS FOR CIOs TO BUILD
THE ALL-SILICON DATA CENTER"
"Rack in a Box" Reliability and Consolidation Advantages Poised to
End the Reign of Mechanical Storage Arrays in the Data Center
September 27, 2011
http://www.violin-memory.com/news/press-releases/6000-2/

"... today introduced the Violin 6000 Series flash Memory Arrays,
the industry's first all-silicon storage systems with
the reliability, performance and economics to be deployed
as mission-critical primary storage."
.....
"Violin also unveiled the new Violin 3220, doubling the storage
capacity of the 3200 Series to 20 terabytes (TB) of SLC per
3U shelf."

[san-tech][03393] QLogic: Highest Density, Most Flexible FC/FCoE Top of Rack (TOR) Switch, Sep 28, 2011

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:14:06 -0400
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QLogicからのプレスリリースです：

"QLogic Universal Access Point Switch Offers Highest Density,
Most Flexible, Converged Solution for Storage and Data Networks"
QLogic Universal Access Point Switches and iSR intelligent Storage
Routers Provide Fabric Freedom to Connect Any Server, Any Network,
Any Storage on Any Switch Port
Sep 28, 2011
http://ir.qlogic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=85695&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1610757

2011/10/02

[san-tech][03391] DDN: SFA10Kシリーズ強化 (SFA10K-X & SFA10K-E), 09.20.11

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:44:16 -0400
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DDNが SFA10Kシリーズを強化しました：

"DataDirect Networks (DDN) Delivers Highest Big Data Performance with
SFA10K-X, World's Fastest Integrated Block and File Storage Appliance"
Award-Winning DDN Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) Technology Embeds
Applications and File Systems While Optimizing Bandwidth, IOPS and
Capacity Utilization for Cloud and Content
09.20.11
http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/2011/datadirect-networks-ddn-delivers-highest-big-data-performance-sfa10k-x-world%E2%80%99s-f
http://www.ddn.com/sites/default/files/10KXPR_FINAL.pdf

"... today unveiled the Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) 10K-X,
a leading integrated storage appliance that maximizes application
performance while minimizing total cost of ownership for Big Data,
cloud, and content-intensive environments."

[san-tech][03390] NetApp: 55PB (1TB/sec) Storage for LLNL Sequoia Supercomputer (20PF)'s Lustre, Sep. 28, 2011

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:59:39 -0400
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NetApp Eシリーズが、LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
で構築中の理論性能 20PF Supercomputer: Sequoia (IBM BlueGene/Q) 用
Lustre: 55PB (1TB/sec) のストレージに選ばれました：

"U.S. Department of Energy Selects NetApp as the Storage Foundation
for One of the World's Most Powerful Supercomputers"
September 28, 2011
http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20110928-990734.html

"... NetApp today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy
(DoE) has selected the company to provide the storage foundation
for its Sequoia supercomputer."
.....
"To store and manage all of this critical data, LLNL will
leverage a solution built on 55PB of NetApp E-Series storage
that will provide over 1TB/sec to the Lustre file system."

[san-tech][03389] "Lustre 2.1 Released", September 30th 2011, Whamcloud Press Release

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:02:10 -0400
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Whamcloudから、Lustre 2.1リリースアナウンスがありました：

"Lustre 2.1 Released"
September 30th 2011, Whamcloud Press Release
http://www.whamcloud.com/news-and-events/lustre-2-1-released/

"Whamcloud, a venture-backed company formed from a worldwide network
of high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, today
announced the release of Lustre 2.1 with better control over
virtualized storage and wider platform support. It is the first full
release of Lustre with Whamcloud and OpenSFS hosting the master
codeline. Significant in this release, contribution rules have been
greatly simplified to more openly encourage community contributions."

[san-tech][03388] Slide: European Lustre Workshop 2011 (2011/09/26, 27)

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:59:08 -0400
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2011年 9月 26, 27日に開催された、

European Lustre Workshop 2011
September 26-27, Paris, Pullman Paris Bercy Hotel
http://www.eofs.eu/index.php?id=5

の講演資料が上記 Webサイトで公開されています。

PDF版 Agenda:
http://www.eofs.eu/fileadmin/workshop2011/agenda_workshop_2011.pdf

2011/09/27

[san-tech][03386] "SDSC Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud", 09.22.11

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:13:57 +0900
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SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) のプレスリリースです：

"SDSC Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud"
Web-based System Offers High Durability, Security, and Speed
for Diverse User Base
09.22.11
http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR092211_sdsccloud.html

"The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of
California, San Diego, today announced the launch of what is
believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system
in the U.S., specifically designed for researchers, students,
academics, and industry users who require stable, secure,
and cost-effective storage and sharing of digital information,
including extremely large data sets."

2011/09/23

[san-tech][03385] Slide: HEC FSIO 2011 Workshop (2011/0807 - 10)

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:49:34 +0900
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2011年 8月 7 ～ 10日に開催された、

High-End Computing File Systems and I/O (HEC FSIO) 2011 Workshop
Sunday, August 7, 2011 ? Wednesday, August 10, 2011
http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2011/

のプレゼンテーション資料がほぼ揃いました。

2011/09/21

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace", July 14, 2011

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"

July 14, 2011

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14651

"The Department of Defense released today the DoD Strategy for

Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC). It is the first DoD unified strategy

for cyberspace and officially encapsulates a new way forward for

DoD's military, intelligence and business operations."

.....

""The cyber threats we face are urgent, sometimes uncertain and

potentially devastating as adversaries constantly search for

vulnerabilities," said Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III.

"Our infrastructure, logistics network and business systems are heavily

computerized. With 15,000 networks and more than seven million

computing devices, DoD continues to be a target in cyberspace for

malicious activity.""

"Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"

July 2011

http://www.defense.gov/news/d20110714cyber.pdf

[san-tech][03382] OpenStackの大容量ストレージサービス、Swiftの仕組みと使い方、2011/08/05, 09/20, TechTarget

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:40:52 +0900
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NTTデータの伊藤雅典さん連載の

OSSクラウド基盤 OpenStackの全て [全 7回]、TechTarget
http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/1101/13/news06.html

から、

"OpenStackの大容量ストレージサービス、Swiftの仕組み" [第 6回]
2011年08月05日 09時00分 UPDATE,
伊藤雅典，NTTデータ, TechTarget
http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/1108/05/news01.html

"OpenStackのオブジェクトストレージサービス「Swift」の特徴、
アーキテクチャ、利用するためのツールを紹介。Swiftは専用
アプリケーションを用いて、大容量データを高速に取り扱うのに
最適化されたサービスである"

"　今回から2回にわたり、OpenStack ObjectStorage（Swift）の全体像と
具体的な利用手順を紹介する。今回はSwiftの特徴、アーキテクチャ、
利用するためのツールなどの全体的な紹介を行い、次回は具体的な
利用手順について解説する。"

[san-tech][03381] Intel Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) に関する Blog, Sep. 15, 2011, Research@Intel

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:22:02 +0900
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[san-tech][03564] "Open-Silicon Announces Industry’s First Hybrid Memory Cube Controller IP", June 4, 2012
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:39:56 +0900
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IDF 2011でデモンストレーションされた Intel Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
についての Blogです：

"Reinventing DRAM with the Hybrid Memory Cube"
September 15, 2011. Bryan Casper, Research@Intel
http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/hmc.php

"Today, Intel CTO Justin Rattner is demonstrating the Hybrid Memory
Cube, the fastest and most efficient Dynamic Random Access Memory
(DRAM) ever built. I want to give you some background on how
and why we collaborated with Micron on this new memory technology."
.....

[san-tech][03379] Cache IQ：新興 NAS加速化キャッシュプラットフォーム, Sep. 19, 2011

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:31:39 +0900
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Cache IQ社が少しだけ製品アナウンスをしました：

"Cache IQ Announces Industry's First Smart NAS Acceleration Solution"
RapidCache dramatically increases application performance and tames
the out of control growth of network attached storage
September 19, 2011
http://www.cacheiq.com/about/company-news/press-releases-2/

"Cache IQ, an enterprise storage solutions company, announced today
the limited release of their RapidCache solution. This intelligent,
high-performance network attached storage (NAS) caching appliance
delivers enhanced performance to I/O intensive applications while
relieving overburdened storage subsystems. RapidCache identifies
applications' active data sets, and then uses a combination of
DRAM and SSDs to dramatically improve performance."

[san-tech][03378] ScaleMP Announces Strategic Collaboration with AMD, Sep. 20, 2011

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:59:44 +0900
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ScaleMPから AMD公式サポートのアナウンスがありました：

"ScaleMP Announces Strategic Collaboration with AMD:
vSMP Foundation for AMD-Based Servers"
Users can scale servers based on the AMD Opteron platform beyond
four processors and 512GB RAM using vSMP Foundation
September 20, 2011
http://www.scalemp.com/scalemp-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-amd-vsmp-foundation-for-amd-based-servers

"ScaleMP, ..., today announced a strategic collaboration with AMD
for vSMP Foundation to support AMD Opteron processor-based servers.
The collaboration enables users to scale AMD-based servers beyond
four processors and create AMD Opteron processor-based systems
with up to 512 processors and 64TB of memory."

2011/09/19

[san-tech][03377] デル、最高45℃での使用も保証で外気冷却を支援、2011/08/24、＠IT

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:40:02 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012/03/25

[san-tech][03488] Slide: Green Grid Forum 2012 (March 6-7, 2012) & Free Cooling Map Update
--------------------------------------------------
デル株式会社のプレスリリースリストには見当たりませんが、

"複数の既存サーバやストレージを対象に
デル、最高45℃での使用も保証で外気冷却を支援"
2011/08/24、＠IT
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/201108/24/dell.html

"　デルは8月24日、事業者や企業のデータセンターにおける外気冷却への
取り組みを支援するため、同社の法人向けIT機器の保証でカバーする
温度範囲を拡大したと日本で発表した。1機種に限定したものでなく、
同社の複数の既存サーバ、ストレージ、スイッチなどに適用される。

　具体的には、年間の合計稼働時間のうち、10％までを室温5～40℃、
湿度5～85％、1％までを室温-5～45℃、湿度5～90％、そして残りの時間を
10～35℃、湿度10～80％の範囲で動かす場合、これがデルの製品保証範囲に
含まれるというもの。常時45℃の稼働を保証するというものではない。
目的が外気冷却の活用支援だからだ。"

複数の既存IT機器を対象製品として認定した：
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/201108/24/l_dell02.jpg

※積算温度モニタシステムみたいなものが必要になりそう。

[san-tech][03375] Pure Storage: the First All-Flash Enterprise Array, August 23, 2011

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:30:46 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

1ヶ月余り前の発表ですが、All-Flash Arrayストレージシステムメーカー
からのプレスリリースです；

"Pure Storage Breaks the Cost Barrier to Mainstream Flash Adoption
in the Data Center with the First All-Flash Enterprise Array"
All-Flash Array is 10x Faster, 10x More Power and Space Efficient,
and Less Expensive than Traditional Disk-Centric Arrays
August 23, 2011
http://www.purestorage.com/our-company/pr-2011-08-23_2.html

[san-tech][03374] "Kaminario and Fusion-io Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise-class All Solid-State SAN Storage", Sept. 13, 2011

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:21:05 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Kaminarioという All Solid-state SAN Storage Solutionsメーカーと
Fusion-ioとの協業プレスリリースです
※Kaminarioの新製品プレスリリースも同日です (後述します)。

"Kaminario and Fusion-io Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise-class
All Solid-State SAN Storage"
Kaminario K2 storage embeds Fusion-io technology, addressing
enterprises' I/O- and latency-bound applications
Sept. 13, 2011
http://www.kaminario.com/company/press-releases/Kaminario_and_Fusion-io_Collaborate_to_Deliver_Enterprise-class_All_Solid-State_SAN_Storage
※Fusion-ioからのプレスリリースはありません。

"Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance, all solid-state
SAN storage for accelerating critical business applications,
today announced that it is teaming up with Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO),
a provider of a shared data decentralization platform, to develop
and market the next-generation Kaminario K2 storage, the industry's
first all solid-state SAN storage."
.....
"As part of the companies' collaboration, Kaminario will incorporate
the Fusion ioDrive Duo as a memory accelerator in its all
solid-state SAN storage and its Scale-out Performance Storage
Architecture (SPEAR). Kaminario and Fusion-io will also team up
to bring the Kaminario K2 family of products into joint customer
environments. These combined efforts reinforce the companies'
commitment to remove the barriers enterprises currently face
in obtaining high performance and highly available SAN storage
at a price point that makes sense."

[san-tech][03373] Quantum to Expand StorNext Appliance Family, Sep 08, 2011

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:21:17 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

Quantumから StorNextアプライアンスがアナウンスされました：
※StorNext Applianceは初めてでは？

"Quantum to Expand StorNext Appliance Family to Simplify Big Data
File Sharing and Archiving"
New offerings will allow industry-proven StorNext software
to deliver unparalleled data management performance, flexibility
and cost-effectiveness
Sep 08, 2011
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=69905&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=1604740

"Quantum Corp. ....., today announced it is adding new products to
its StorNext appliance family. The expanded family will use the power
of StorNext and market-leading hardware to offer predictable
high-performance file sharing and archiving in purpose-built
configurations of metadata controllers, expansion appliances and disk,
and archive enabled libraries."

High-performance metadata controller
*)The recently announced StorNext M330 is the first in a series of
metadata controller appliances from Quantum.

Expansion appliances and disk
*)StorNext G300 Scale-Out Gateway Appliance
*)The scalable StorNext QM1200, QS1200 and QD6000 Storage Systems
StorNext QM1200 Storage System will be ideal as fast disk for metadata.
The StorNext QD6000 will scale to over 1 PB of data in a single array
※Expansion appliances and diskの URLsは未だのようです。

Fast, economical archives
*)The StorNext Archive Enabled Libraries can be purchased with as few as
41 activated slots or as many as 5,000 activated slots, protecting
data sets that can range from 60 TB to over 7.5 PB.

[san-tech][03372] IBM 100 petaOPS Supercomputer出願特許公開、September 8, 2011

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:07:59 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
IBMが 2011年 1月 10日に出願した特許書類が、2011年 9月 8日に公開され
ました (特許成立ではありません)：

Title: MULTI-PETASCALE HIGHLY EFFICIENT PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER
United States Patent Application: 20110219208
Kind Code: A1
Inventors: Asaad; Sameh ; et al.
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
Publication Date: September 8, 2011
Filed Date: January 10, 2011
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20110219208&OS=20110219208&RS=20110219208
※↑The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Imagesをクリックすると出願書類イメージとなるはずですが、私の場合
ブラウザー (Chrome) との相性問題か、分量の問題かで上手くいきません。
※A4 (Letter?) で、649枚です。460枚程度は図表です。
※後述する民間サイトでも PDFファイルを入手出来ますが、画像 PDFなので
単語検索出来ません。上記 URLはフラット HTMLです (ただし読み難い)。

[san-tech][03371] Broadcom to Acquire NetLogic Microsystems, September 12, 2011

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:48:55 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
既にご存じの方も多いと思いますが：

"Broadcom to Acquire NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., A Leader in
Network Communications Processors"
September 12, 2011
http://www.netlogicmicro.com/News/pr/2011/11-09-12merger.asp
http://investor.broadcom.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=604481

"Broadcom Corporation ....., and NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NETL), a leader in high performance intelligent
semiconductor solutions for next generation networks, today
announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement.
Under the agreement, NetLogic Microsystems shareholders will
receive $50 per share in a transaction of approximately
$3.7 billion, net of cash assumed."

[san-tech][03369] 小型のシリコンフォトニクス光源を開発、2011/09/16、富士通

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:44:00 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
日本のメーカーも頑張っています：

"CPU間の大容量光インターコネクトに向けて小型のシリコンフォトニクス光源を開発"
光送受信器の送信部小型化と温度調整機構の不要化により、
大容量光インターコネクトの実現に一歩前進
2011年9月16日
http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2011/09/16.html

"株式会社富士通研究所は、CPU間での大容量・高速通信を可能とする光による
インターコネクト（データ伝送）を実現するために必要となる、光送受信器用
の小型シリコンフォトニクス光源を開発しました。

従来は、光送受信器に搭載される、光を放つシリコンフォトニクス光源と、
光源から発せられた光に情報を乗せる光変調器に温度変化が起こった場合、
光源の発振波長と光変調器の動作波長にずれが生じることにより、光に情報が
乗らなくなる懸念がありました。そのため常におたがいの動作波長を一致
させるための温度制御が不可欠でした。今回、光源の波長と光変調器の
動作波長を自動的に一致させる機構を新しく取り入れることで、従来技術では
必要であった温度調整機構を不要とすることに成功しました。この技術により、
光送受信器の送信部において小型化および従来比2分の1の低消費電力化が
可能となります。

今回開発した技術により、小型で低消費電力な光送受信器を CPUパッケージに
搭載可能になります。将来のエクサフロップス級スパコンやハイエンドサーバ
などにおけるCPU間の光インターコネクトへの適用により、超高速コンピュータ
の実現が期待されます。"

"本技術の詳細は、9月14日（水曜日）から16日（金曜日）までイギリス・ロンドン
で開催された国際会議「8th Group IV Photonics (GFP 2011)」にて発表いた
しました。"

※英語版 (USA、UK) プレスリリースは未だのようです。

[san-tech][03368] 2011/10/28 (金)：インテルソフトウェアカンファレンス東京

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:06:30 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
以下の日程で、インテルソフトウェアカンファレンスが東京で開催されます：

会　期：2011年 10月 28日（金) 10:00～17:10 (9:00受付開始)
会　場：シェラトン都ホテル東京 (東京都港区白金台)
主　催：インテルコーポレーション、インテル株式会社
定　員：400名
参加費：無料（事前登録制）
対象者：並列化のための新しいテクノロジーやツールを使用して、
マルチコア・プロセッサー向けにアプリケーションの並列化および
最適化に取り組むソフトウェア開発者
(セッションで主に使用するプログラミング言語：C/C++/Fortran)
http://www.intelsoftwareconferencejapan.com/tokyo.html

[san-tech][03367] "Koomey's Law: Computing efficiency keeps pace with Moore's Law", SEPTEMBER 13, 2011, InfoWorld

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:26:37 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
"Koomey's Law: Computing efficiency keeps pace with Moore's Law"
Computers have historically doubled in energy efficiency every
18 months, according to new study
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011, InfoWorld
http://www.infoworld.com/t/green-it/koomeys-law-computing-efficiency-keeps-pace-moores-law-172681

Koomey's Lawグラフ (Computations per kWhと年代)：
http://www.infoworld.com/sites/infoworld.com/files/media/image/KoomeysLaw.PNG

2011/09/08

[san-tech][03366] HDS Announces Acquisition of BlueArc, September 7, 2011

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:23:03 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

"Hitachi Data Systems Announces Acquisition of BlueArc"
September 7, 2011
http://www.bluearc.com/storage-news/press-releases/110907-Hitachi-Data-Systems-Announces-Acquisition-of-BlueArc.shtml
http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/press-releases/2011/gl110907.html

"Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), ..... today announced
a significant milestone in its strategy to give customers
seamless access to all data, content and information with
the acquisition of BlueArc Corporation, ..... Building upon
a successful 5 year OEM partnership, Hitachi Data Systems and
BlueArc will give customers the unmatched combination of
Hitachi enterprise-class quality, reliability and support with
innovative, highly scalable, high performance BlueArc network
attached storage (NAS). "

2011/08/31

[san-tech][03364] Texas Memory: 10 TB of eMLC Flash in 1U, August 23, 2011

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:53:07 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
少し前の発表ですが、

"Texas Memory Systems Brings RamSan High Performance and High Reliability
to eMLC Applications"
August 23, 2011
http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/146

"The RamSan-810 leverages 33 years of design expertise in record-setting
performance and reliability for the eMLC Flash storage market. It packs
10 Terabytes into a 1U enclosure with 4-GB/s bandwidth and 320K random
IOPS. For read-heavy enterprise applications, the RamSan-810 offers
Tier-0 performance and reliability at Tier-1 prices."

[san-tech][03363] Fusion-io ioCache = ioDrive + ioTurbine, Aug. 29, 2011

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:46:49 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
早くも製品化です。

"Fusion-io Unveils ioCache Virtualization Solution"
Fusion's ioTurbine Software and Customized ioMemory Accelerator
Virtualizes Flash to Deliver Affordable Performance for
Virtualizing Data-Intensive Enterprise Applications
Aug. 29, 2011
http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-unveils-iocache-virtualization-solution/
http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1e8imv/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioCache_8.26.11.pdf
.....
"When deployed in a VMware environment, Fusion's ioTurbine software
dynamically provisions ioMemory capacity and I/O performance across
multiple virtual machines (VMs) by using Fusion's VSL OS Subsystem
to house and serve data for each VM. Tight integration of VSL's
host-based flash management and ioTurbine's cache management
eliminates otherwise redundant mapping functions, maximizing I/O
performance and adding a critical and previously missing piece
to virtualized IT environments - a plentiful supply of scalable,
low-latency I/O."

"Through this approach, Fusion-io unites the benefits of flash and
cache without the overhead costs created by integrating each
technology through traditional architectures using storage
protocols and embedded processors. This solution avoids the need
for expensive, performance-oriented networked storage systems,
SSD arrays and memory appliances that struggle to deliver
performance from the far end of a network, instead allowing
enterprises to use cost optimized shared storage systems."
.....
"Available exclusively in bundles with ioTurbine software,
Fusion's ioCachedelivers 600GB of capacity optimized to support
the majority of virtualized application workloads. "

2011/08/30

[san-tech][03362] Citrix: Cloud.comをオープンソース化、8/29/2011

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:37:25 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Citrix社が、2011年 7月に買収した Cloud.comをオープンソース化しました：

"Citrix Opens Up the Cloud for VMware Customers"
Latest Release of CloudStack Brings the Leading Open Source Cloud
Platform to VMware vSphere and OracleVM Users
8/29/2011
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=2315523

"Citrix Systems today announced a new edition of CloudStack, which
will feature enhanced support for both the VMware vSphere and
Oracle VM hypervisors, enabling VMware and Oracle customers
to manage their virtualized servers as a highly available, scalable
cloud computing environment. Citrix CloudStack is not just
a traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with
cloud management layered on top, it is a production-ready, free
and open source cloud infrastructure platform that helps providers
of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services
that are scalable, secure, and open by design. The new release is
based on the same CloudStack solution that has been used by some of
the world's largest and most successful public clouds to roll out
new cloud services up to 50 times faster and at one-fifth the cost
of alternative solutions(1). This is the first release of
the product since Citrix acquired Cloud.com in July."

2011/08/29

[san-tech][03361] Re: Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 Proceedings (2011/08/09 - 11)

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:51:09 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
[san-tech][03341] Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 (2011/08/09 - 11)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:36:15 +0900

--------------------------------------------------

↑で紹介した David Floyerさんの記事が更新されました：

"2011 Flash Memory Summit Enterprise Roundup

Last Update: Aug 28, 2011, Wikibon

Originating Author: David Floyer

http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/2011_Flash_Memory_Summit_Enterprise_Roundup

[san-tech][03360] Intel Cilk Plus is now available in open-source and for GCC 4.7!, August 9, 2011

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:15:58 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Intelから C/C++を拡張した並列言語 Cilkがオープンソースとして公開され
ました。Cilkの発音は "silk" です (以下の MITサイトから)。

Intel Cilk Plus
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus/
"Intel Cilk Plus is now available in open-source and for GCC 4.7!"

"Parallelism as a First Class Citizen in C and C++, the time has come."
August 9, 2011, Intel Software Blogs
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/08/09/parallelism-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-c-and-c-the-time-has-come/

[san-tech][03359] The SSD Review (SSD情報サイト)

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:56:50 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
SSD情報サイトです：

The SSD Review
The Worlds Dedicated SSD Resource and Review Site
http://thessdreview.com/

About Us
http://thessdreview.com/background/
"The SSD Review was officially launched and available to the public
on March 28, 2010."

"The roots of the site can be traced back to August 29, 2007 when
the Publisher, Les Tokar, published the first review of a solid
state drive on the internet with his review of the Sandisk U5000
32Gb SLC SSD."
.....
"All original articles are published here at The SSD Review
in order to assist in an understanding of how fast we are
progressing in the world of SSD storage."

2011/08/28

[san-tech][03358] Panasas Webinar: "pNFS-Are We There Yet?" (Aug. 24, 2011)

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:02:14 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2011年 8月 24日の Panasasの Webinar: "pNFS-Are We There Yet?" の
ビデオが公開されています：

WEBINAR: PNFS - ARE WE THERE YET?
http://www.panasas.com/news/webinars/pnfs-are-we-there-yet

YouTube
"WEBINAR: pNFS-Are We There Yet?"
Panasas pNFS Update
2011/08/24, PanasasHPC, 50:35, 720p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTu6VxRrQM

"NFS has been the standard protocol for NAS systems since the 1980s.
However, with the explosive growth of Linux clusters running
demanding technical computing applications, NFS is no longer
sufficient for these big data workloads. After years of development
effort, driven by Panasas and others, pNFS is now just around
the corner and promises to dramatically improve Linux client
I/O performance thanks to its parallel architecture.

Geoffrey Noer, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Panasas
presents this on-demand webinar -- "pNFS: Are We There Yet?""

2011/08/26

the human genome, Nature, Vol. 409, No. 6822, 15 February 2001

"Artificial Life", The Proceedings, September, 1987, etc.

2011/08/25

[san-tech][03356] 白色LEDで 100Mbpsデータ転送 (100Mbps by white-light LEDs)

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:17:15 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

EUのプロジェクトで白色 LED可視光を利用して 100Mbpsのデータ転送に

成功しました：

"Data are traveling by light"

Research News August 2011

Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT

http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010-2011/20/data-traveling.jsp

"Regular LEDs can be turned into optical WLAN with only a few

additional components thanks to visible light communication

(in short, VLC). The lights are then not just lighting up, they

also transfer data. They send films in HD quality to your iPhone

or laptop, with no loss in quality, quickly and safely."

.....

"... since scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for

Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin,

Germany, have developed a new transfer technology for video data

within the scope of the OMEGA project of the EU, its

implementation in real life is getting markedly closer. At the

end of May, the scientists were able to present the results of

the project in Rennes, France. They were able to transfer data

at a rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) without any losses,

using LEDs in the ceiling that light up more than ten square

meters (90 square feet). The receiver can be placed anywhere

within this radius, which is currently the maximum range.

2011/08/23

[san-tech][03354] Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility, August 23rd, 2011

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:54:10 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

まだ GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2レベルですが、

"Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility in Latest

GlusterFS Release"

August 23, 2011

http://www.gluster.com/2011/08/23/gluster-announces-apache-hadoop-storage-compatibility-in-latest-glusterfs-release/

"... today announced the release of GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 which

includes compatibility for Apache Hadoop. This latest enhancement

to GlusterFS uses the standard file system APIs available in Hadoop

to provide a new storage option for Hadoop deployments. With this

new feature, GlusterFS is the first open source, POSIX-compliant

file and object storage solution that works with Hadoop. Compatible

with existing MapReduce-based applications and with the ability

to co-exist with HDFS, this new functionality opens up data within

Hadoop deployments to any file- or object-based application,

providing a broad new range of options for big data deployments."

2011/08/21

[san-tech][03352] Slide: Titan Summit (Cray XK6, 20PF Peek), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), (2011/08/15 - 17)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:27:50 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
こちらも US DOE HPC関連ですが、Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilityの
次期 HPC: Titan (20PF Peak, Cray XK6, Opteron + GPU)についてのワークショップ
資料が公開されました：

Titan Summit
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), August 15 - 17, 2011
http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/event/titan-summit/

"The summit will provide a forum for current and prospective users
to meet with OLCF staff and industry vendors to discuss Titan,
the next-generation leadership-class computational resource, and
a significant step towards exascale computing at the OLCF. Users
are encouraged to present their application plans for scaling
to exascale."

[san-tech][03351] Slide: US DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection (2011/08/16 - 19)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:04:23 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

US DOEの HPC関連ワークショップの

12th Workshop on the DOE

Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection

August 16-19, 2011

http://acts.nersc.gov/events/Workshop2011/

講演資料が公開されました。

2011/08/20

スーパーマイクロプロセッサ、bit 臨時増刊、1991年 3月

2011/08/19

[san-tech][03350] Slide: US DOE 2011 Workshop on Architectures II: Exascale and Beyond: Configuring, Reasoning, Scaling (2011/08/08 - 10)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:50:38 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
[san-tech][03349] Slide: US DOE 2011 Workshop on Architectures I:
Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research, Gaps in our Thinking (2011/08/02, 03)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:40:41 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
先に [03349] 紹介した

2011 Workshop on Architectures I: Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research,
Gaps in our Thinking
http://www.orau.gov/archI2011/default.htm

の関連ワークショップの資料が公開されています：

2011 Workshop on Architectures II: Exascale and Beyond: Configuring,
Reasoning, Scaling, 8/8/11 - 8/10/11
http://www.orau.gov/archII2011/default.htm

"The goal for this workshop will identify ways that we can abstract

architectures, in general, to meet the ever-changing complexities
inherent in exascale (and beyond). This workshop will be essential
in molding our path forward in hardware and software architectures
design space exploration, including simulation and emulation modeling
and their role in developing and implementing abstract machine models.
Moreover, we believe that such methodologies will prove insightful
in discovering what could and should be included or changed in next
and future generation hardware. Scholars from both DOE and non-DOE
communities will participate. Together we will identify machine
abstractions, their idealized primitives, and view of memory. It will
be informative to discuss and debate the realization of these
abstractions. Moreover, given an existing real system and/or subsystem,
how do we do explain its machine abstraction and would this abstraction
be sufficient to explain the performance attributes of exascale?"

[san-tech][03349] Slide: US DOE 2011 Workshop on Architectures I: Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research, Gaps in our Thinking (2011/08/02, 03)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:40:41 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
以下のワークショップの講演資料が公開されています：

2011 Workshop on Architectures I: Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research,
Gaps in our Thinking
http://www.orau.gov/archI2011/default.htm

"It has been approximately two years since DOE and DARPA completed their
"ground breaking" exascale reports. In July 2010, the DARPA UHPC program
was started. Four teams were funded to research and develop ExtremeScale
designs. Various computer vendors have claimed that they are investigating
the designs of exascale computers (IBM, HP and SGI). Several DOE labs are
also investigating exascale designs (LBL, Sandia). The purpose of
this workshop is to address the hardware and software architecture
challenges for developing exascale computers. It would be very informative
to revisit the exascale studies and explore what has been learned and
to discuss research gaps. To achieve this goal we will meet and discuss
the lessons learned from these various activities."

2011/08/18

[san-tech][03346] Slide: 2011 Gordon Summer Institute (2011/08/08 - 12)

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:32:45 +0900

--------------------------------------------------

First Flash Memory-based Supercomputerをうたい文句とした、SDSC Gordonの

Get Ready for Gordon - Summer Institute, August 8 - 11, 2011

http://www.sdsc.edu/Events/summerinstitute2011/index.html

2011 Gordon Summer Institute Agenda

http://gordon.sdsc.edu/_files/documents/gsi_2011_agenda.pdf

の講演資料が公開されました。以下の Webページからダウンロード可能です：

[san-tech][03345] Xsigo Server Fabric, August 15, 2011

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:58:59 +0900

--------------------------------------------------

Xsigoプレスリリースやビデオの前に、後半で紹介する The Registerの記事を

先に読んだ方が解りやすい気もしますが、まずはプレスリリースから

"Xsigo First to Market with Virtualized Server Fabric to Enable Cloud

Data Centers"

Xsigo Server Fabric lets enterprise IT managers and cloud providers

provision new services 10x faster at half the cost of operation

Xsigo leapfrogs switch and port-based legacy vendors Cisco, Brocade

and Juniper with fully virtualized network connectivity

August 15, 2011

http://www.xsigo.com/news_events/press_releases.php?pr=68

"Xsigo Systems today announced the Xsigo Server Fabric, the industry's

first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.

The Xsigo Server Fabric enables one-click network connections from

virtual machines to any data center resource - including servers,

networks, storage, and other virtual machines - to accelerate

the management of virtualized data centers."

2011/08/17

Black & Red [02]

2011/08/16

[san-tech][03344] SmartOS from Joyent (ZFS, DTrace, KVM (OS-based virtualization (Zones)), Crossbow)

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:35:03 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

Sun DTraceの開発功績で、Technology Review, MITの TR35に選出された

Bryan Cantrill氏が移籍した Joyentから、(illumosベースの) SmartOSが

一般公開されました：

"Joyent Announces SmartOS With KVM: An Open Source, Modern Operating System"

KVM on SmartOS provides entrepreneurs and enterprises highest performance

and profit potential through best of breed cloud technologies

August 15, 2011

http://www.joyent.com/2011/08/joyent-announces-smartos-with-kvm-an-open-source-modern-operating-system/

"... today announced that it has ported KVM to its operating system,

SmartOS. SmartOS turns any server into a highly efficient,

multi-tenant application hosting platform. The open source project

offers innovative tools for application developers looking for

reliable, resilient storage and efficient virtualization that

Joyent has tuned and hardened for modern, data-intensive real-time

(DIRTy) application deployment."

2011/08/15

[san-tech][03299] 2011/08/25(木)：SS研 HPCフォーラム2011　「ペタスケール HPC技術が支える地球科学」

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:54:55 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2011年 8月 25日(木)、サイエンテフィック・システム研究会 (SS研) により、
SS研 HPCフォーラム 2011
ペタスケールHPC技術が支える地球科学
http://www.ssken.gr.jp/MAINSITE/activity/sectionmeeting/sci/2011-1/program.html
http://www.ssken.gr.jp/MAINSITE/activity/sectionmeeting/sci/2011-1/program.pdf
が開催されます。
※申込み：Webページ経由　 [受付期間:7/22(金)～8/15(月)]

2011/08/12

[san-tech][03342] 次世代スーパーコンピュータ「京」ビデオ、ディスカバリーチャンネル＆BS-TBS

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:40:37 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

少し前のビデオですが、富士通さんサイトで以下の 2本のビデオが公開されています：

動画で見る、「次世代スーパーコンピュータ」

http://jp.fujitsu.com/about/tech/k/movies/index.html

"日本発　次世代スーパーコンピュータ「京」"

ディスカバリーチャンネル (2011年 3月 21日初回放送)

5分 59秒、ダイジェスト版 (英語＋日本語字幕等)

"夢をカタチにするスーパーコンピュータ"

BS-TBS (2010年 12月 18日放送)

6分 23秒、ダイジェスト版 (日本語)

「次世代スーパーコンピュータ」

http://jp.fujitsu.com/about/tech/k/

[san-tech][03341] Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 (2011/08/09 - 11)

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:36:15 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

2011年 8月 9日～ 11日に開催されていた：

Flash Memory Summit 2011 Proceedings, August 9 - 11, 2011

http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/

2011 Program At-a-Glance

http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/English/Conference/Program.html

Preview Program

http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/English/Conference/Preview_Program.html

http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/English/Collaterals/Documents/FMS11_Preview_Program.pdf

の Slideが公開されています。

[san-tech][02826] Virident tachIOn (PCIe SSD)：住友情報システムが代理店契約

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:12:57 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
住友情報システムさんが、Fusion-ioとは別の PCIeベース SSD専門会社の
Virident社と代理店契約を結びました：

"Virident Systems Expands Global Reach to Japan with Sumisho Computer
Systems", Nov. 15, 2010
http://www.virident.com/news_10_11_15_sumisho.php

"announced a new partnership with Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation
(SCS), a leading provider of solutions and services to the Japanese
enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) market. In partnering
with SCS, Virident will leverage the Tokyo-based firm's expertise in
the Japanese enterprise market and gain a local provider of
enterprise-class systems."

2011/08/10

2011/09/10 (土) 「三好甫先生記念計算科学シンポジウム」

-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/15

講演集・展示   http://www.hpfpc.org/miyoshi-sympo/proceedings.html

"このページには当日のご講演プレゼンテーション，展示コーナー，
会場と懇親会の様子を用意しましたのでご覧ください．"

-------------------------------------------------
～わが国スーパーコンピュータの来し方・未来を語る～一日として
「三好甫先生記念計算科学シンポジウム」を開催いたします．
  http://www.hpfpc.org/miyoshi-sympo/

講演会・懇親会　参加登録
  http://www.hpfpc.org/miyoshi-sympo/touroku.html

参加申込方法：
事前登録へのご協力をお願いいたします．
8月10日(水)までにお申し込みください。

==================================================

[san-tech][02964] 「地球シミュレータ開発史」公開 (2011/02/17)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:22:35 +0900

Take a Bath!

2011/08/09

Laleham Park, England, 2009/11

[san-tech][03339] SIGGRAPH 2011でも Fusion-io, Aug. 8, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:05:41 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

Fusion-ioのプレスリリースです：

"Fusion-io Teams Up with NVIDIA, Tweak Software and Thinkbox Software

to Accelerate Entertainment Production"

Innovative Industry Leaders Unlock Performance to Unleash Creativity

in Digital Content Creation Tools Showcased at SIGGRAPH 2011

Aug. 8, 2011

http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-teams-up-with-nvidia-tweak-software-and-thinkbox-software-to-accelerate-entertainment-production/

http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1d7gzn/docsPress/FINALPR_FIO_Siggraph_8.8.11.pdf

[san-tech][03337] IBM: NCSA Blue Watersキャンセルだ！, Aug. 8, 2011, Effective August 6, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:39:33 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

※Blue Waters Interconnect Network情報追加 (09 Aug 2011 21:13:59 +0900)

あれまぁ、

"Blue Waters Update-NCSA/IBM Joint Statement"

Aug. 8, 2011, Effective August 6, 2011

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/system.html

"IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide

the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications'

Blue Waters project."

"NCSA is confident that its goal of building a sustained-petascale

supercomputer remains achievable in a timely manner. NCSA is

coordinating with the National Science Foundation to ensure project

continuity and that the goals of the project are achieved."

.....

"IBM will return money received to date and NCSA will return equipment

delivered by IBM per terms of the contract."

関連記事 (と言っても上のプレスリリースがメイン)

"IBM Cancels Blue Waters"

Aug 8, 2011, insideHPC

http://insidehpc.com/2011/08/08/ibm-cancels-blue-waters/

[san-tech][03336] New EMC Disk Library for Mainframe, The industry’s fastest mainframe VTL for z/OS, August 8, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:10:06 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

EMCのプレスリリースです：

"New EMC Disk Library for Mainframe is First Integrated Solution

for All Tape Use Cases"

EMC DLm6000 2x Faster than Competition and Reduces Reliance

on Mainframe Tape

August 8, 2011

http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110808-01.htm

News Summary

*)The new DLm6000 is the only solution that can address the full

range of mainframe tape workloads with a single, consolidated

all-disk system

*)Designed for use in IBM z/OS environments, the new EMC DLm6000

is the industry's fastest mainframe VTL

*)Integrates EMC VNX7500 and/or EMC Data Domain DD890 storage

systems to support all mainframe use cases

*)Matches different workloads to the most appropriate storage

[san-tech][02806] "EMC Acquires Bus-Tech", November 10, 2010

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:24:40 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

"EMC Acquires Bus-Tech", November 10, 2010

http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2010/20101110-02.htm

"... today announced it has acquired Bedford, Massachusetts-based

Bus-Tech, Inc. Bus-Tech is a privately held provider of VTL

(Virtual Tape Library) solutions that utilize open systems disk

storage to store and retrieve mainframe tape data. Bus-Tech

products enhance EMC solutions for mainframe batch processing,

backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and data archiving

applications. Bus-Tech now becomes part of the rapidly growing

EMC Backup Recovery Systems division, which delivers next-generation,

disk-based backup and recovery solutions. The acquisition is not

expected to have a material impact to EMC GAAP and non-GAAP EPS

for the full 2010 fiscal year."

2011/08/07

London Eye, 2009/11

[san-tech][03335] OpenDRAC (Re: "Ciena's Dynamic Resource Allocation Controller Released As Open Source Software", 2010/06/03)

Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:18:37 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

一年以上前の投稿への自己レスですが、Ciena Dynamic Resource Allocation

Controller (DRAC)、元は Nortelの技術は、既に

OpenDRAC

the Open Dynamic Resource Allocation Controller

https://www.opendrac.org/

サイトが用意され、すでに OpenDRAC 4.1.0 (June 2011) が公開されてました。

[san-tech][03334] Slide/Video: NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III (2011/04/07, 08)

Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:57:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

2011年 4月 7、8日に開催された

NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III

http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/cloudworkshopiii.cfm

Agenda

http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/upload/April_2011_CCWWIII_agenda.pdf

http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/Workshop3Agenda

※下は Bioへのリンク付き

のハイライトビデオとスライドが公開されています。

2011/08/06

Runnymede, England, 2009/10 [4]

Runnymede, England, 2009/10 [1]

Runnymede, England, 2009/10 [2]
Runnymede, England, 2009/10 [3]

--------------------------------------------------

[san-tech][03332] Intel: クラウドと組み込み研究に $30Mを CMUに投資、2011/08/03

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:28:59 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

[san-tech][02937] Univ of Washington、Intelと共同で Silicon Photonic Chipsセンタ

(OpSIS) 設立
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:37:53 +0900

で紹介した、

> 関連していると思われる Intel Press Release

> "Intel Labs to Invest $100 Million in U.S. University Research"

> 2011/01/26

> http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/26/intel-labs-to-invest-100-million-in-us-university-research

> ----------------------------------------

> First Center Hosted by Stanford, Focused on Visual Computing

> NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

> *)Intel Labs announced $100 million cash investment in U.S. university

> research over the next 5 years, marking a new model of collaboration

> for the organization.

> *)Funding will support a number of Intel Science and Technology Centers;

> the first such center will be led by Stanford University and focus on

> next-generation visual computing.

> *)This new model of university-lead research is expected to provide U.S.

> researchers with up to 5 times more funding from Intel Labs compared

> to the previous approach, and enable engagements across a broader set

> of universities.

> ----------------------------------------

で設立される研究機関は

Intel Science and Technology Center

http://techresearch.intel.com/newsdetail.aspx?Id=27

と呼ばれ、

[san-tech][03330] カナダ政府 ITコストを削減：データセンター統合 (300 => 20)、E-mail system (100 => ONE) 等

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:48:18 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

カナダ政府が、ITコストを削減を打ち出しました：

"Government of Canada to Reduce Information Technology Costs and

Save Taxpayers' Dollars"

August 4, 2011, Government of Canada

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=614499

"On behalf of the Government of Canada, the Honourable Rona Ambrose,

Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for

Status of Women, along with the Honourable Tony Clement, President

of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Federal Economic

Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, today announced

measures to streamline and identify savings in

Information Technology (IT) through Shared Services Canada."

[san-tech][03329] Linux 3.0で pNFSサポート？

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:05:28 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
以前紹介した Linux 3.0
2011-07-22
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0

では全く触れてませんが、Panasasの Blogでは、

"PARALLELISM GOES MAINSTREAM"
July 29, 2011, Submitted by Barbara Murphy
http://panasas.com/blog/parallelism-goes-mainstream
.....
"... Just to show that things do not move fast in the standards world,
the IETF approved the first Internet Draft for the pNFS standard in 2008
and finally by June 2011, pNFS for files and objects was only then
included in latest kernel (version 3.0).

The release of Linux Kernel 3.0 was a huge industry milestone. Finally
another hurdle to take full advantage of Parallelism has been removed
with the standardization of pNFS as the long term file system of choice
for HPC applications. However it will likely be at least one more year
before pNFS is in the hands of users as it still requires Linux software
vendors to include it in commercial releases."

[san-tech][03328] "Erasure Coding - The New Approach to Data Archiving", August 4th, 2011, SiliconANGLE

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:38:44 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

Wikibonに CTOの David Floyer氏が、Erasure Codingについて投稿している

のを、SiliconANGLEが取り上げています：

"Erasure Coding - The New Approach to Data Archiving"

August 4th 2011, SiliconANGLE

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/08/04/erasure-coding-%E2%80%93-the-new-approach-to-data-archiving/

.....

"Now, says Wikibon CTO David Floyer in a new article on Wikibon.org,

an emerging data archiving approach called Erasure Coding, based on

a fairly complicated mathematical analysis, promises very secure data

archiving in the public cloud at an order-of-magnitude less cost than

the three-data-center approach. The trade-off is that data access is

slower, although certainly much faster and easier than access to data

archived on tape. And it avoids the issues of media obsolescence

as well as deterioration that plague older tape-based data."

2011/08/05

[san-tech][03327] OCZ: Next Generation Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD, August 2, 2011

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:01:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

OCZから、PCI Expressベース新機種 (第二世代) のアナウンスです：

"OCZ Technology Launches Next Generation Z-Drive R4 PCI Express

Solid State Storage Systems"

The Z-Drive R4 Provides the Ultimate Solution for Big Data and

Cloud Computing Applications by Coupling Enterprise-Class Power

Fail Protection with Benchmark-Shattering Performance

August 2, 2011

http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/445

"today announced the release of Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express

(PCIe) storage solutions designed to dramatically accelerate

enterprise applications and significantly reduce total cost of

ownership in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 product line features

OCZ's second generation proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture

(VCA) 2.0, providing the utmost in performance, flexibility,

durability and enhanced reliability features, allowing data centers,

for the first time, to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary

tier one storage solution."

[san-tech][03326] "Fusion-io to Acquire IO Turbine", Aug. 4, 2011

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:21:26 +0900

--------------------------------------------------

既にご存じの方も多いと思いますが、

"Fusion-io to Acquire IO Turbine"

Combined Software Solution to Significantly Enhance Performance

in Virtualized Environments

Aug. 4, 2011

http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-to-acquire-io-turbine/

http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1d41lm/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioTurbine_8.4.11.pdf

"... today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement

to acquire IO Turbine, Inc., a provider of caching solutions for

virtual environments. Under terms of the agreement, Fusion-io will

pay up to approximately $95 million, subject to purchase price

adjustments, for all outstanding securities of IO Turbine."

2011/08/03

[san-tech][03325] Googleは 900,000サーバと推定 (Re: "Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010",..., August 1, 2011)

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:09:54 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
[san-tech][03324] "Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010",

Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., August 1, 2011
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:25:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
よく調べたら、このレポートが以下の記事等の、Googleが 900.000台のサーバを
導入している根拠となっています。

"Report: Google Uses About 900,000 Servers"
August 1st, 2011, Data Center Knowledge
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/01/report-google-uses-about-900000-servers/

"A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency"
Aug. 1, 2011, GigaOM
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-sneak-peek-into-googles-servers-energy-efficiency/

"A report from data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey, published
on Monday morning, gave a rare glimpse into some educated estimates
for how many servers and how much electricity Google uses, and how
energy-efficient those custom servers are."

確かに、

"Table 4: Educated guesswork about electricity used by Google's servers"
(Page 23)

で、2000年、2005年、2010年の各種情報 (サーバ台数、各種機器の BkWh等) を
一覧にしています。沢山の注釈付きですが。

[san-tech][03324] "Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010", Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., August 1, 2011

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:25:29 +0900

--------------------------------------------------
2008年に "Worldwide electricity used in data centers" を公開した、
Jonathan G. Koomey博士 (Consulting Professor, Stanford University) の
最新レポートです：

"Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010"
August 1. 2011, Analytics Press.
http://www.analyticspress.com/datacenters.html

いきなり最後を引用：
"In summary, the rapid rates of growth in data center electricity use
that prevailed from 2000 to 2005 slowed significantly from 2005 to 2010,
yielding total electricity use by data centers in 2010 of about 1.3%
of all electricity use for the world, and 2% of all electricity use for
the US."

レポート (24 Page) ダウンロード URL
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzqna34282frr2f

[san-tech][03323] eBay Installs 100 TBs of Nimbus Flash & Nimbus Unveils Next Generation S-Class Flash Memory Systems, August 2, 2011

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:59:45 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

eBayが Nimbus Data Systemsから 100TB Flash Storage System を VMware用

として導入しました：

"eBay Installs 100 TBs of Nimbus Flash Memory Storage for Virtualization"

World-class virtualization deployment sees provisioning times slashed

from 40 minutes to 3 minutes with Nimbus S-Class systems

August 2, 2011

http://www.nimbusdata.com/newsevents/pr_2011_08_02.html

http://www.nimbusdata.com/newsevents/pressreleases/2011_08_02.pdf

"... today announced that eBay, the world's largest online marketplace,

has deployed more than 100 terabytes of Nimbus S-Class flash memory

to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The scale of

the Nimbus deployment at eBay, which started with one system and

expanded to 12 systems in less than one year, makes it among

the world's largest consolidated deployments of network-attached flash

storage for virtualization today."

2011/08/02

[san-tech][03322] ScaleMP: STREAM’s Triad function was just over 2.25 TB/s, August 01, 2011

Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:55:18 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

現在

ScaleMP

http://www.scalemp.com/

に接続できないので、BUSINESS WIRE経由のプレスリリースです：

"ScaleMP Places Among Top Three Worldwide on Stream Benchmark"

vSMP Foundation Achieves Outstanding Sustainable Memory Bandwidth

August 01, 2011, BUSINESS WIRE

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110801005540/en/ScaleMP-Places-Top-Worldwide-Stream-Benchmark

"... vSMP Foundation claimed the top three results for the STREAM

synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth

(in MB/s) in high-performance computers. The result achieved for STREAM's

Triad function was just over 2.25 TB/s."

[san-tech][03321] IBM Redpaper(Draft): "Smarter Data Centers: Achieving Greater Efficiency"

Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:29:42 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

まだ Draftレベルですが、IBM Redpaperです：

"Smarter Data Centers: Achieving Greater Efficiency"

Last Update: 2011/07/29, Planned Publish Date: 2011/08/31

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4413.html

"This IBM Redpaper publication can help your IT organization as

it begins the journey to becoming a smarter data center. IBM wants

to help others, particularly our clients, to chart a course to reap

the benefits of lower costs and improved sustainability that running

a green data center can provide. Understanding what is possible can

speed your journey to an optimized smarter data center with

sustainability designed into both the IT and facilities

infrastructures. Although this paper is not all inclusive, it provides

a quick start for going green in data centers. It also provides

additional pointers and information. You can use this paper as

a guide to becoming more energy efficient."

[san-tech][03298] 2011/08/02, 03: IDEMA国際ディスクフォーラム 2011「HDDの新たな挑戦」

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:43:49 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

2011年 8月 2(火)、3(水)、IDEMA Japanによる

国際ディスクフォーラム (DISKCON JAPAN) 2011

「HDDの新たな挑戦」

http://www.idema.gr.jp/diskcon/forum.html

が開催されます。

2011/08/01

[san-tech][03320] Re: Open Cloud Principles by Open Cloud Initiative & CLOUD2 by TechAmerica Foundation

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:07:39 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

[san-tech][03315] Open Cloud Principles by Open Cloud Initiative & CLOUD2 by TechAmerica Foundation
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:37:11 +0900

--------------------------------------------------

VCE (VMware, Cisco EMC共同プロジェクト) は、Cloud2をサポートするそうです：

"VCE Helps Government Agencies Embrace the Cloud"

VCE Chairman and CEO Michael Capellas Serves as Federal Cloud Commission
Co-Chair, Offers Final Report on How the US Government Can Accelerate
the Adoption of Cloud Technologies

Jul 26, 2011
http://www.vce.com/pdf/media/vce-pr-2011-07-26-federal-cloud-commission.pdf
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vce-helps-government-agencies-embrace-the-cloud-2011-07-26
※↑HTML版

"VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company, announces its support
for the TechAmerica Federal CLOUD2 Commission report which was officially
released today in Washington D.C. at the National Press Club.
The TechAmerica CLOUD2 Commission is a group of over 70 thought leaders
from industry, government and academia brought together to generate
recommendations for accelerating adoption of cloud technologies in
the US Government." ...