This may interest you: 2011/07/03

2011/07/09

"A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics", May 21, 2009

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2011/06/27
"President Obama Launches Advanced Manufacturing Partnership ", June 24, 2011

> "Remarks by the President at Carnegie Mellon University's
> National Robotics Engineering Center"
> June 24, 2011, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/24/remarks-president-carnegie-mellon-universitys-national-robotics-engineer

> "President Obama Launches Partnership at CMU"
> 2011/06/24, CarnegieMellonU, 21:51, 720p
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfTY38Xg9bg

> The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)
> Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (RI)
> http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/

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"Robotics Research a Pillar of New $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership"

June 24th, 2011,

Erwin Gianchandani, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog

http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/robotics-research-a-pillar-of-new-500m-advanced-manufacturing-partnership/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cccblog%2FwDnv+%28CCC+Blog%29

"In just a few minutes, President Obama will announce the launch of

the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) in a speech on U.S.

innovation and competitiveness at Carnegie Mellon University, saying

his administration will provide $500 million to encourage the Federal

government, industry, and academia to work together to develop new

technologies that spur high-tech manufacturing and boost job creation."

..... "A key pillar of this new initiative is a $70 million investment

for major advances in robotics being made available today."

[san-tech][03255] Thunderbolt関連 (Analyzer, RAID DIsk)

Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:32:44 +0900
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Thunderbolt関連の情報です：

==========

"LeCroy Announces ThunderboltR 10 Gb/s Electrical Physical Layer Test Solutions"

April 11, 2011

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"LaCie Introduces Little Big Disk, Featuring High-Speed Thunderbolt Technology"

February 24, 2011

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"PROMISE Technology to Unveil SANLink at NAB"

All-New SANLink Adapter Brings Simple Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity

to a New Generation of Devices with High-Speed Thunderbolt Technology

April 11, 2011

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"PROMISE Technology Ships World's First Thunderbolt Storage Solution"

6/28/2011

PROMISE Pegasus RAID Brings Groundbreaking Performance to Creative

Professionals in the Studio, on Location and in the Home

[san-tech][02886] ARM with GPU (CEC 2011の NVIDIAとは違うお話)

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:02:51 +0900
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GPUと ARMと言えば、先日 (1/5) の CECでの NVIDIAの発表がありました

"【CES 2011レポート】NVIDIAカンファレンス編

～GPU統合型ARMベースCPU「Project Denver」の開発を表明"

2011年 1月 6日

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/event/20110106_418198.html

"３．NVIDIAが高性能ARMプロセサの開発を表明"

最近の話題 2011年1月8日, Ando's Processor Information Page

http://www.geocities.jp/andosprocinfo/wadai11/20110108.htm

NVIDIAのプレスリリース等：

"NVIDIA、「Project Denver」を発表－パーソナル・コンピューターから

スーパーコンピュータまでをターゲットに、ARMアーキテクチャ採用の

カスタムCPUコアを開発"

2011年1月5日

http://www.nvidia.co.jp/object/project-denver-cpu-cores-arm-architecture-press-20110105-jp.html

"NVIDIA Announces "Project Denver" to Build Custom CPU Cores Based

on ARM Architecture, Targeting Personal Computers to Supercomputers"

01/05/2011

http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F579F09&version=live&prid=705184&releasejsp=release_157&xhtml=true

"Project Denver" Processor to Usher in New Era of Computing"

Bill Dally, Posted on Jan 5 2011

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/01/project-denver-processor-to-usher-in-new-era-of-computing/

調べてみたら ARMでは、既に GPUコアを提供してました (携帯電話等用です)。

[san-tech][03254] Infortrendから Cluster File Systemアプライアンス

Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:46:44 +0900
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Infortrendから Cluster File Systemアプライアンスが発表されました。

"Infortrend Addresses Media/Entertainment and HPC Applications with

New ESVA Cluster File System"

Delivers Excellent Performance and Supports Windows, Mac and Linux Clients

July 6, 2011

http://www.infortrend.com/News/20110705/2011008_US_1.0_CFS.htm

2011/07/07

[san-tech][03253] Cray 46-node Intel Core i7 Microserver概要, 6th July 2011, The Register

Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:22:31 +0900
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Crayの 46ノード Intel Core i7ベース Microserver契約発表 (2011/06/30) から

1週間余りで写真が出て来ました。

先ずは契約プレスリリース：

"X-ES Develops 46 CPU-Node Data Center Blade for Cray targeting

Intel Core i7 Processors"

Jun 30th, 2011

http://www.xes-inc.com/view/news/94/?PHPSESSID=d9b5d7c1a24161761c04d09b3b0b9f0b

http://www.xes-inc.com/assets/files/102915_X-ESCrayDataCenter110630.pdf

"Under contract to Cray Inc., Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc.

(X-ES) developed and delivered a prototype next-generation data

center blade consisting of forty-six Intel Core i7 processor cards.

Cray's Custom Engineering group designed the system infrastructure

that combines super efficient power delivery, high-density packaging,

and innovative cooling technologies. With the design in place,

Cray turned to Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES) to develop

the blade hardware."

2011/07/06

[san-tech][02445] NAP：Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences: Summary of a Workshop, 2010

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:48:48 +0900
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The National Academies Press (NAP) の新刊です：

"Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences:

Summary of a Workshop"

Scott Weighman and Thomas Alison, Rapporteur; National Research Council

Publication Year:2010, Size: 58 pages, 6 x 9

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12916.html

Description:

"Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes

a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the

major challenges that hinder large-scale data integration in the

sciences and some of the technologies that could lead to solutions.

The workshop was held August 19-20, 2009, in Washington, D.C."

※PDF版は無償ダウンロード公開です。

[san-tech][02583] "High Frequency Trading in Japan on the Uptick", August 23, 2010, HPCwire

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:07:06 +0900
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証券取引でのネットワークレイテンシについてのインタビュー記事です。インタビューを

受けている Chuck Chon氏は、日本の SBIジャパンネクスト証券株式会社の CTOです。

"High Frequency Trading in Japan on the Uptick"

August 23, 2010, HPCwire

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2010-08-23/high_frequency_trading_in_japan_on_the_uptick.html

"High frequency trading (HFT), often called algorithmic or low latency

trading, relies on fast computers and even faster networks to execute

trades in sub-second and even sub-millisecond timeframes. It has

generated massive profits for those firms skilled enough to handle

the complexities of the software and hardware.

As such, it has become the dominant method for equity trading in the

US, but it's popularity is expanding worldwide, especially Asia.

HPCwire got the opportunity to ask Chuck Chon, chief technology officer

of SBI Japannext, about the HFT business in Japan and to talk about

some of the technology behind it."

SBIジャパンネクスト証券株式会

http://www.japannext.co.jp/

私設取引システム（PTS：Proprietary Trading System）

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/私設取引システム

"アメリカでは電子証券取引ネットワーク（ECN：Electronic Communications

Network）と呼ばれる私設取引システムが1960年代から広がり、現在では、

取引高がナスダック市場の全体の約3割～4割に及ぶ。"

Electronic communication network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_communication_network

[san-tech][02556] HDS、ParaScale資産購入

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:33:25 +0900
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[san-tech][02375] ParaScale (Cloud file storage supplier)

で伝えた ParaScaleですが、知的財産やコア技術者は HDS (Hitachi Data Systems)

が購入していました (HDSから Press Releaseは出てないようです)。

HDS中の人の Blogに記載されてます。

"One Size Doesn't Fit All"

By: Miki Sandorfi on August 19, 2010

http://blogs.hds.com/miki/2010/08/one-size-doesn%E2%80%99t-fit-all.html

.....

"I am excited to announce that we have recently acquired the IP and

brought on board the core engineering team of a cloud storage

software start-up called ParaScale. "

Miki Sandorfi, Chief Strategist, File and Content Services

http://blogs.hds.com/miki/about

[san-tech][02375] ParaScale (Cloud file storage supplier) ・・・

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:10:32 +0900
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先週 (2010/06/08)、The Registerで取り上げられた ParaScaleの続報です

ParaScale

~~http://www.parascale.com/~~

=>http://www.hds.com/

※プレスリリース等は出ていません。

"Storage shop ParaScale shrinks itself"

8th June 2010, The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/08/parascale_shrinking/

"Cloud file storage supplier ParaScale has failed to raise funds in

a B-round and is having to cut costs and conserve its dwindling cash."

"The company has cancelled its external PR contract and an unspecified

number of people are to leave the company. This includes Marketing

and Business Development VP Jack Norris, who was just appointed in

November of last year. It must have been a roller-coaster six months

for Norris."

[san-tech][02514] 米政府スーパーコンピュータ用光ファイバ部品に $200,000投資

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:24:46 +0900
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GigOptix社のプレスリリースです：

"GigOptix Receives Grant to Customize Modulators for Government

Supercomputing Applications", Aug 02, 2010

http://ir.gigoptix.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=225697&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=1455003

"today announced that it has secured a grant for $200,000 in research

and development funds to customize the Company's proprietary LX8400

40Gb/S Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPS(TM)) Mach Zehnder (MZ)

modulator for use in an ongoing Government Supercomputing program."

"Following the completion of a previous program where a GigOptix

modulator was able to successfully transmit 40Gb/s data at the extremely

low temperatures of 40° Kelvin or -233° Celsius, this latest grant

will be used to further optimize the low temperature operation of the

design to enable optical links in next generation peta-flop class

supercomputers between processors running at ultra low temperatures

and large scale memory running at room temperatures."

[san-tech][03252] Video: Google European Data Centre Summit 2011 (2011/05/24)

Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:38:16 +0900
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2011年 5月 24日に開催された

Google European Data Centre Summit 2011

http://www.google.com/events/datacentersummit2011/

のビデオが公開されています。

Event Schedule

http://www.google.com/events/datacentersummit2011/agenda.html

2011/07/05

IBM PC

[san-tech][01351] サージ保護・整流デバイス (Environmental Potentials: EP-2000, EP-2500)

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:48:45 +0900
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2011/07/05

※こちらも 2年以上前の投稿ですが、面白いデバイスなので出来るだけリンク先等を

更新して公開します。

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ちょっと変わったサージ保護・整流デバイスをストレージベンダーさんに紹介

したら大変興味をもたれたので紹介します。

今年の夏は雷が多発しうちでも何度か影響を受けました。急遽対策しようと色々

調べたのですが、一般的なサージ防護デバイスは (例えば)、

~~サージ防護デバイス Surge Protection Devices~~

~~(保安器、SPD、サージプロテクタ、避雷器)~~

~~http://www.sankosha.co.jp/product/category.html?cid=36~~

雷保護ソリューション製品

SPD (避雷器)

http://www.sankosha.co.jp/product/category.html?cid=24

解説資料

"JIS・直撃雷対応サージ防護デバイス"

平成 18年 2月 20日、株式会社サンコーシャ　雷ソリューション部

http://www.sankosha.co.jp/catalog/pdf/new_jis.pdf

株式会社サンコーシヤ

http://www.sankosha.co.jp/

技術資料・用語集

http://www.sankosha.co.jp/technical/index.html

カタログダウンロード

http://www.sankosha.co.jp/catalog/

のように分電盤設置型でエネルギーをアースに逃がす方式です (トランス型は規模

が大きすぎるで却下)。ただし、これだと分電盤にきちんとしたスペースを確保して
正しく設置されたアースが必要です (本来は初めからサージ防護デバイスを設置
すべきですが・・・)。

[san-tech][01459] Liebert精密空調機

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:27:53 +0900
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2011/07/05

※2年以上前の投稿ですが、国内では Libert精密空調機の利点がほとんど知られ

　ていないので公開します。URL等は変更しましたが、種類が増えていて対応しきれて

　いません。

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以前からちょくちょく触れていた Liebert社の空調システムが Sunの最新データ

センターで採用されました (両社は2007年から協力してます)：

"米Sun、年間100万ドルの電力を削減できる最新省エネデータセンターをオープン"

2009/01/27, エンタープライズ Watch (現クラウド Watch)

http://enterprise.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/foreign/2009/01/27/14772.html

http://cloud.watch.impress.co.jp/epw/cda/foreign/2009/01/27/14772.html

"空調装置は米Emersonの「Liebert XD」を利用し、ダイナミックコントロール

により、ASHRAE（アメリカ暖房冷凍空調学会）標準よりも24％効率化すると

いう。"

※Liebert社は Emerson Network Power社の事業会社の一つです。

[san-tech][02460] 講演資料：Uptime Institute Symposium 2010, 2010/05/16-19

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:46:28 +0900
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2011/07/05：

[san-tech][03103] リサーチレポート公開：Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 (2011/05/09 - 12)

[san-tech][03179] Re: リサーチレポート公開：Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 (2011/05/09 - 12)

を紹介しましたが、Uptime Institute Symposium 2010にも素晴らしい資料が公開

されていたので紹介します：

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2010年 5月 16日～19日に、米 Uptime Instituteが主催した

Uptime Institute Symposium 2010, May 17-19, 2010

~~http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/~~

http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/past-events/symposium

の講演資料等の一部が公開されています。

とくにこれはお勧めです：

FREE Pre-Conference Tutorial

"Emerson Network Power's

Optimizing Data Center Infrastructure to Reduce Cost, Maximize Performance and

Deliver High Availability"

C. Mayo Tabb Jr., Senior Regional Manager-East, Emerson Network Power's

Liebert AC Power business;

Fred Stack, Vice President of Marketing, Emerson Network Power's Liebert

Precisio Cooling business;

Traci Yarbrough, Director Product Marketing, Data Center Software Solutions

http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/2010-program/schedule

http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/images/stories/presentations/emerson_tutorial_sunday_5.16.2010.pdf

(PDF 176 Page 8MB)

2011/07/04

[san-tech][03247] Slide: ScicomP17 (IBM HPC Meeting), May 9-13, 2011

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:39:54 +0900
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2011年 5月 9日～13日に開催された

ScicomP17

The 17th meeting of ScicomP,

the IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group, May 9-13, 2011

http://spscicomp.org/wordpress/scicomp17/

の一般向け講演資料が公開されています：

ScicomP 17 Schedule

http://spscicomp.org/wordpress/scicomp-17-schedule/

[san-tech][03246] Slide：ROSS 2011 (Int. WS on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers), May 31, 2011

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:35:14 +0900
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Fast-OSワークショップは、去年は HotStorage等と一緒に USENIX Annual

Technical Conferenceで開催されていましたが、今年 (2011年) は Fast-OS

独自のワークショップは開催されず：

International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers

ROSS 2011, May 31, 2011

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2011/

が開催されてました。

[san-tech][03245] PIANO+ (Photonic-based Internet Access Networks of the Future): EC Photonics Networking Project

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:44:54 +0900
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またストレージの本筋から離れますが、

欧州 (参加国: Austria, Germany, Poland, the UK and Israel) の Photonics

プロジェクト：PIANO+: Photonic-based Internet Access Networks of the

Futureの紹介記事です：

"EC chips in a third for 22.3M EUR splurge on photonic networking"

I see the light, and the light is fast

29th June 2011, The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/ec_fibre/

"The European Commission is spending 7.43M EUR on developing

technologies for better fibre networking, with five member countries

stumping up twice that for local funding."

LLNL opens High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) for collaboration with industry, 6/30/2011

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LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) が、産業界との共同 HPC施設を
開所しました：

"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory opens High Performance Computing
Innovation Center for collaboration with industry"
6/30/2011
https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2011/Jun/NR-11-06-08.html

"In an initiative that aims to boost the nation's economic competitiveness,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory today announced the opening of
the High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC).

The innovation center will facilitate national lab/industry collaboration,
applying high performance computing to product design, development and
manufacturing, data management and the operation of complex energy and
communication systems. Industries expected to benefit from the use of HPC
range from aerospace, automotive and transportation to utilities, energy,
health care, finance, materials manufacturing, nanotechnology and consumer
electronics."

[san-tech][03244] "Apache Hadoop: The Scalability Update", June 2011, ;login:, The USENIX Magazine

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:11:19 +0900
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;login:, The USENIX Magazine、June 2011 (Volume 36, Number 3) で、

"Apache Hadoop: The Scalability Update"

Konstantin V. Shvachko

Principal Hadoop architect at eBay

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2011-06/openpdfs/Shvachko.pdf

が一般に公開されています (他にもいくつか公開されてます、URLは文末)。

"Scalability is one of the primary forces driving popularity and

adoption of the Apache Hadoop project. A typical use case for Hadoop

is an emerging Web site starting to run a five-node Hadoop cluster

and then gradually increasing it to hundreds of nodes as business

grows.

Last year ;login: published my article [12] summarizing one aspect of

Hadoop scalability, namely, the limits of scalability of the Hadoop

Distributed File System [13]. There are many other dimensions to

Hadoop scalability. Here I would like to address some of them."

[san-tech][03243] Re: ペーパー公開：USENIX　HotStorage '11、Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIV) '11とか, (2011/06/14-17)

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:40:30 +0900
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各ワークショップの Slide/MP3も一般公開されました。

例えば

[san-tech][03149] UCSD: Phase Change Memory-Based SSD

で紹介した：

> "Onyx: A Protoype Phase-Change Memory Storage Array"

> Ameen Akel, et al.

> 3rd USENIX conference on Hot topics in storage and file systems

> June 14, 2011

2011/07/03

[san-tech][03242] Advanced Format (AF) Technology, IDEMA (Re: Western Digital Advanced Format (4K Sector) 関連 URL)

Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:34:57 +0900
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Advanced Formatについて調べたところ、IDEMA (The International Disk Drive

Equipment and Materials Association) にまとまってるのが解りました：

Advanced Format (AF) Technology, IDEMA

http://www.idema.org/?page_id=98

スライド (PDF, 11 Page) は

"Advanced format for hard disk drives"

http://www.slideshare.net/IDEMA_USA/advanced-format-for-hard-disk-drives

からダウンロード可能です (slideshare登録が必要ですが)

※それか以下の一括ダウンロードファイルに含まれています。

※表紙の HDDメーカーが・・・

http://www.idema.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/advancedformatcommittee.gif

2011/07/03 (日) 22:00-22:30：日本発　次世代スーパーコンピュータ「京」再放送

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2011年 7月 3日(日) 22:00 - 22:30、ディスカバリーチャンネルで、

日本発　次世代スーパーコンピュータ「京」
シリーズ：インサイドアウト～世界の挑戦者～

が再放送されます (2010/03/21放送)。