Reprints from my posting to SAN-Tech Mailing List and ...

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
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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」

"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」

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

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

2011 Program At-a-Glance
Preview Program

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
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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」

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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."

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~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。
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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
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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

[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
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※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

  "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

[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
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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

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

  "... 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
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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

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
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2011年 4月 7、8日に開催された

NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III
Agenda
※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。