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

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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
2011 Gordon Summer Institute Agenda

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
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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

"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."

2011/08/16

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

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

  "... 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
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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。
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