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

2012/12/10

[san-tech][03608] Paper/Slide: 7th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PSDW 2012) at SC12, November 12, 2012

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:36:53 +0900
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Supercomputing '12 (SC '12) で開催された

7th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PSDW)
 held in conjunction with Supercomputing '12
 November 12, 2012
  http://www.pdsw.org/index.shtml

の Paper、Slideが公開されています:


タイトル:
SESSION 1: REPRESENTING STRUCTURE IN DATA
"Discovering Structure in Unstructured I/O"
 *)PLFS https://github.com/PLFS
"Compressing Intermediate Keys between Mappers and Reducers in SciHadoop"
"Towards Dynamic Scripted pNFS Layouts"

SESSION 2: OBSERVING AND OPTIMIZING
"IOPin: Runtime Profiling of Parallel I/O in HPC Systems"
"SAN Optimization for High Performance Storage with RDMA Data Transfer"
 *)PCI Board Storage
   http://211.170.88.3/taejin/products/page_05_01.asp?RPG=page_05
"A Case for Scaling HPC Metadata Performance through De-specialization"

SESSION 3: ALTERNATIVE STORAGE MODELS
"An Evolutionary Path to Object Storage Access"
 *)PVFS2 http://www.pvfs.org/
"DataMods: Programmable File System Services"
 *)PLFS
"A Case for Optimistic Coordination in HPC Storage Systems"


POSTER SESSION
  http://www.pdsw.org/postersession.shtml

2012/12/07

[san-tech][03607] Video-List: Storage Field Day 2, November 8-9, 2012

Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:36:39 +0900
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2012年 11月 8, 9日に開催された

Storage Field Day 2, November 8-9, 2012
  http://techfieldday.com/event/sfd2/

のビデオリストです:
Storage Field Day 2
 Stephen Foskett
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLObjX_zORJMCuZBuudq8aI5xLiJ2sdozH

31 Videos

[san-tech][03606] Video-List: Next-Generation Storage Symposium, November 7, 2012

Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:36:07 +0900
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2012年 11月 7日に開催された

Next-Generation Storage Symposium, November 7, 2012
  http://techfieldday.com/event/ngss1/

のビデオリストです:

Next-Generation Storage Symposium
 Stephen Foskett
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLObjX_zORJMApvDvmHn__nKhWBAJQSAJZ

12 Videos

2012/12/05

[san-tech][03605] Slide: 23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23), 27, 28/11/2012

Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:11:08 +0900
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2012年11月 27, 28日に開催された

23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23), 27 and 28 November 2012
  https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/mew23


のプレゼンテーションが公開されています:

MEW23 - Agenda
  https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/mew23?agenda=1

[san-tech][03604] HP: Industry-first Innovations for its Converged Storage Portfolio, December 03, 2012

Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:03:43 +0900
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2012年 12月 3日(ドイツ時間) HPより発表された新ストレージラインのリンクを
まとめてみました。

"HP Redefines Storage Simplicity with Single Architecture for Enterprises of All Sizes"
 Most significant set of new storage platforms in over a decade
 December 03, 2012
  http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1332554

  "HP today announced industry-first innovations for its Converged Storage
   portfolio that break through complexities and inefficiencies with
   a single architecture for all sizes of client deployments.

   Designed for virtualized, cloud and big data retention environments,
   these solutions include new HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP StoreAll Storage
   and HP StoreOnce Backup product offerings."

2012/07/22

[san-tech][03587] Dell Ventures Announces $60 Million Early Stage Storage Investment Fund

Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:40:14 +0900
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Dellの投資部門会社の Dell Venturesが、ストレージスタートアップ企業に
総額 $60 Millionの投資計画をアナウンスしました。
※ 5~10社に ラウンドあたり $3-5M。

Dell Venturesからのプレスリリースはありませんが、

"Dell Is Fueling the Next Big Thing in Innovation -
 Dell Ventures Announces Early Stage Storage Investment Fund"
 17 Jul 2012, Jim Lussier, The Official Dell Corporate Blog
  http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2012/07/17/dell-is-fueling-the-next-big-thing-in-innovation-dell-ventures-announces-early-stage-storage-investment-fund.aspx
.....
  "While on stage at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference today,
   Michael Dell announced a $60M early stage investment fund,
   the Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund. We have set our sights on investing
   in five to ten promising storage startups. We plan to obtain equity
   positions in these innovative companies, with average investments of
   $3-5 million per round."
.....
  "Our storage investments will align to the Dell Fluid Data architecture
   strategy with the end game of bringing more affordable and easier
   to manage storage solutions to more of the market."

2012/07/21

[san-tech][03586] Slide/Video: O'Reilly OSCON (Open Source Convention) 2012, (2012/07/16-20)

Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:14:24 +0900
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2012年 7月 16日~20日に開催された

O'Reilly OSCON (Open Source Convention) 2012, July 16 - 20, 2012
  http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012

の Slide/Videoが公開されています。

OSCON 2012 Speaker Slides & Video
  http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/proceedings

2012/07/19

[san-tech][03585] Slide: Summer 2012 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs (2012/07/15-19)

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:18:41 +0900
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2012年 7月 15日~19日開催の

Summer 2012 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs. July 15 - July 19, 2012
  http://events.internet2.edu/2012/jt-stanford/index.cfm

Slideが公開されています (全てではありません)。

Program, All Days
  http://events.internet2.edu/2012/jt-stanford/agenda.cfm?types=&details=&timespan=all

事前の記事
"Internet2 readies 100G OpenFlow SDN for Big Data"
 July 09, 2012, Network World
  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/070912-internet2-260703.html

にあるように、SDN (Software Defined Network) 関係が多い気がします。

2012/07/16

[san-tech][03584] Statement of Work, US DOE/NNSA Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development FastForward RFP (2012)

Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:41:03 +0900
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2012/09/05
"LLNL Takes Lead in Managing the DOE’s FastForward Program"
 08.16.2012, insideHPC
  http://insidehpc.com/2012/08/16/llnl-takes-lead-in-managing-the-doe%E2%80%99s-fastforward-program/

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先日担当社が確定した (公式プレスリリースは見つかりませんが)、DOE/NNSAの
Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development
FastForward Request for Proposals
  https://asc.llnl.gov/fastforward/

の Statement of Work (プロジェクトの目標、成果物等、役割分担を明記した
文章) を斜め読みしてみました (SOWの TCO紹介は長いので最後にしました)。
はじめにプロジェクトについて (プロジェクト期間は 2年間)

"The FastForward RFP objective is to initiate partnerships with multiple
 companies to accelerate the R&D of critical technologies needed
 for extreme-scale computing. It is recognized that the broader
 computing market will drive innovation in a direction that may not meet
 DOE's mission needs"

後で紹介する NVIDIAの Bill Dallyの Blogの方が解りやすい気がするので:
"The two-year contract calls for NVIDIA to conduct research and development
 in processor architecture, circuits, memory architecture, high-speed
 signaling and programming models to enable an exascale computer at
 a reasonable power level. The concept is to use thousands of efficient,
 throughput-optimized cores to perform the bulk of the work, with
 a handful of latency-optimized cores to perform the residual serial
 computation." Bill Dally, NVIDIA
※↑に Storage and I/Oが加わります。


以下の 3領域で RFPを募集してました (2012/05/11締切)

*)Memory
*)Processor
*)Storage and I/O

2012/07/12

[san-tech][03583] NCSA Blue Waters deploys Redundant Arrays of Independent Tapes (RAIT)

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:03:02 +0900
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2012年 4月 16日~18日に開催された HPC User Forumの資料を見ていて気付いた
のですが、NCSA Blue Watersのテープシステム (Spectra Logic T-Finity Libraries
380 raw petabytes (PB)) では、Redundant Arrays of Independent Tapes (RAIT)
が採用されています。

"Blue Waters"
 Merle Giles, NCSA Business & Economic Development
 HPC User Forum - Richmond VA - April 2012
  http://www.hpcuserforum.com/presentations/richmond2012/GilesRichmondVApdf.pdf

RAIT (Page 12)
*)Multiple data classes depending on file size to take advantage of tape
  writing strategies
    4+1, 7+2, 10+2, etc
    Trade off latency vs performance - Depends on the size of the data
*)Multiple levels of RAIT part of the requirements
    ....
Blue Waters Project
  http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/

[san-tech][03582] Slide: LRZ SuperMUC at Workshop: Toward Green Computing Centers (2012/06/28), TERATEC Forum 2012

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:32:48 +0900
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2012/07/27
"How many DRAMs does it take to populate a supercomputer?
 746,496 plus a lot of hot water for cooling"
 July 25, 2012, Denali Memory Report
  http://denalimemoryreport.com/2012/07/25/how-many-drams-does-it-take-to-populate-a-supercomputer-746496-plus-a-lot-of-hot-water-for-cooling/

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2012年 6月の TOP500で 4位 (インテル互換系システムとして最速) となった、
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) SuperMUCの講演資料です。
SuperMUCは IBM System x iDataPlexによる温水冷却システムです;

"Energy-efficient High Performance Computing with SuperMUC"
 Arndt BODE, Director
 Leibniz-Supercomputer Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences LRZ
 June 28, 2012
 Toward Green Computing Centers, Workshop at TERATEC Forum 2012
  http://www.teratec.eu/library/pdf/forum/2012/presentations/A4_01_FTeratec_2012_Bode.pdf

SuperMUC Petascale System
  http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/supermuc/

2012/07/11

[san-tech][03578] Slide: International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2012), (2012/06/29)

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:43:18 +0900
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HPC関係の少し特殊なワークショップですが、気になる発表もあるので紹介します。

International Workshop on
Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2012)
Held in conjunction with ICS 2012, Venice, Italy, June 29, 2012
  http://www.unixer.de/ross2012/index.html

Scope
"The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases
 as we cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale.
 Increasing levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and
 emerging heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy
 and memory constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards
 operating systems and runtime environments. The International Workshop
 on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers provides a forum
 for researchers to exchange ideas and discuss research questions that
 are relevant to upcoming supercomputers."

2012/07/10

[san-tech][03577] Slide/Video: Velocity 2012 - O'Reilly Conferences (2012/06/25 -27)

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:21:30 +0900
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2012年 6月 25日~27日に開催された

O'Reilly Velocity 2012
Web Performance & Operations Conference, June 25 - 27, 2012
  http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/

の Slide/Videoが公開されています:
Velocity 2012 Speaker Slides & Video
  http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/public/schedule/proceedings
*)Web Performance
*)Operations
*)Velocity Culture
*)Mobile Performance
*)Sponsored

Velocity 2012 Schedule
  http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/public/schedule/grid/public-grid


YouTube List:
Velocity US 2012, O'Reilly
  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL80D9129677893FD8
O'Reilly Channel
  http://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia

2012/07/05

[san-tech][03572] Slide: 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBossWord (June 26-29, 2012)

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:16:48 +0900
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2012年 6月 26日~29日に開催された

2012 Red Hat Summit and JBossWord, June 26-29, 2012
  http://www.redhat.com/summit/
Agenda
  http://www.redhat.com/summit/agenda/

の Slideが公開されています:
Presentations
  http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/presentations/

2012/06/22

[san-tech][03569] Re:”1平方インチあたり5テラビットとなるHDDの要素技術を開発”, NEDO & 東北大学

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:08:54 +0900
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平成 24年 5月 29日に開催された、文部科学省 情報科学委員会 (第 76回) での
本プロジェクト関連配付資料が公開されました (6月 22日)


情報科学技術委員会(第76回) 配付資料
  http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/006/shiryo/1322302.htm

配付資料
資料2 「高機能・超低消費電力コンピューティングのためのデバイス・システム基盤」最終成果報告
プロジェクトリーダー
村岡裕明・大野英男、東北大学電気通信研究所
  http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/006/shiryo/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/06/20/1322302_02.pdf

2012/06/21

[san-tech][03568] Paper: 2012 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (June 12 - 15, 2012)

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:50:19 +0900
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2012年 6月 12日~15日に開催された USENIX Federated Conferences Weekの
Paper (一部 Slide) が公開されています:

2012 USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 12 - 15, 2012
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw12

Federated Conferences Weekは複数のワークショップ等から成り立ちます。
Paper等が開催されているのは、例えば

USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2012 (ATC '12)
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc12
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '12)
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage12
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '12)
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud12

2012/06/18

[san-tech][03567] Slide/Video: HPC Advisory Council European Conference 2012, (June 17, 2012)

Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:36:41 +0900
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2012年 6月 17日に開催された

HPC Advisory Council European Conference 2012
  http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/European-Workshop/index.php

の Slideが公開されています。

The agenda for the conference
  http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/European-Workshop/agenda.php
※以下に公開されているものをリストします。

2012/06/15

2012/06/14

[Links] Intel Ethernet Switch Silicon

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2012/09/14
"Intel shows off Seacliff Trail SDN-enabled switch"
 12th September 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/12/intel_seacliff_trail_sdn_switch/
  http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/09/12/intel_sdn_seacliff_switch.jpg
...
  "The FM6764 ASIC supports OpenFlow 1.0 control protocols and VXLAN,
   the extended LAN virtualization protocol espoused by VMware that puts
   a Layer 2 overlay on top of Layer 3 networks so virtual network links
   don't break as virtual machines flit across data centers. The Fulcrum chip
   also supports the NVGRE alternative that Microsoft, Intel, Dell, and
   Hewlett-Packard have offered."

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2012/09/12
"Intel Demonstrates Complete SDN Solution at IDF"
 2012/09/10, Gary Lee : Wired Ethernet
  http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2012/09/10/intel-demonstrates-complete-sdn-solution-at-idf
...
  "... our new SDN-enabled Intel Ethernet FM6764 switch silicon first hand in
   a top of rack switch reference design code named Seacliff Trail."

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2012/09/05
"How Intel Supports the Network within a Network"
 2012/08/28, Gary Lee : Wired Ethernet
  http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2012/08/28/how-intel-supports-the-network-within-a-network

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2012/06/14
Intel Ethernet Products, Ethernet Controllers, Switch Silicon,
Converged Network and Server Adapters
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-controllers/ethernet-products.html

Intel Ethernet Switch Silicon
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/switch-silicon/switch-silicon-ethernet-switch.html
Intel Ethernet Switch Silicon FM6000
   http://www.intel.com/content/www/jp/ja/switch-silicon/switch-silicon-ethernet-switch-fm6000.html
Intel Ethernet Switch FM7000 Family
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/jp/ja/switch-silicon/switch-silicon-ethernet-switch-fm7000.html

"Intel Ethernet Switch FM6000: SDN with OpenFlow"
 White Paper
  http://www.intel.co.jp/content/www/us/en/switch-silicon/ethernet-switch-fm6000-sdn-paper.html
"The Intel FM7000 Ethernet switch builds upon the FM6000 features
 to not only support SDN, but also several advanced tunneling protocols."


Wired Ethernet Community, Intel
  http://intelopenport.hosted.jivesoftware.com/community/wired
"How Intel Delivers Low Latency Ethernet Switching",
 2012/05/22, Gary Lee, Wired Ethernet Blog
  http://intelopenport.hosted.jivesoftware.com/community/wired/blog/2012/05/22/how-intel-delivers-low-latency-ethernet-switching
"New Ethernet Switch Software Unleashes Innovative Features",
 2012/06/05, Recep Ozdag, Wired Ethernet Blog
  http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2012/06/05/new-ethernet-switch-software-unleashes-innovative-features
"Intel is Taking Software-Defined Networking to Interop Tokyo",
 2012/06/13, Recep Ozdag, Wired Ethernet Blog
  http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2012/06/13/intel-is-taking-software-defined-networking-to-interop-tokyo
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[san-tech][03472] Intel Ethernet Controller x540 related URLs
  Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:17:23 +0900

2012/06/10

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2012/06/05

[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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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) に関して Micron Technology, Inc.と提携した
Open-Silicon, Inc.からのプレスリリースです:

"Open-Silicon Announces Industry’s First Hybrid Memory Cube Controller IP"
 Enabling Next-Generation Memory System Design for High-Performance Computing,
 Networking and Test & Measurement Applications
 June 4, 2012
  http://www.open-silicon.com/company/news-events/press-releases/open-silicon-announces-industry%E2%80%99s-first-hybrid-memory-cube-controller-ip/

  "... announced today the industry's first Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) controller
   IP core - the industry's highest-performance and most flexible solution
   for integrating the many benefits of HMC technology into next-generation
   systems. ..."

2012/06/04

[san-tech][03563] Slide: Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2012, (21-25 May 2012)

Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:48:50 +0900
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こちらも特殊なワークショップですが、2012年 5月 21日~25日に開催された:

Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2012, 21-25 May 2012
  http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=149557

の Slideが公開されています。

[san-tech][03562] Slide: HEPiX Spring 2012 Workshop (23-27 April 2012)

Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:47:38 +0900
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少し特別なワークショップですが、4月 23日~27日に開催された

HEPiX Spring 2012 Workshop, 23-27 April 2012
  http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=160737

の Slideが公開されています。

"HEPiX meetings bring together IT system support engineers from
 the High Energy Physics (HEP) laboratories, institutes, and universities,
 such as BNL, CERN, DESY, FNAL, IN2P3, INFN, JLAB, NIKHEF, RAL, SLAC,
 TRIUMF and others."

CERN等、リアルに大規模データを管理しているサイトからの報告があります。

2012/06/03

[san-tech][03561] Paper/Slide/Video: NSDI '12: 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (April 25 -27, 2012)

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:35:50 +0900
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2012年 4月 25日~27日に開催された

NSDI '12: 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
 April 25 -27, 2012
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi12

の Paper/Slide/Videoが公開されています:

[san-tech][03560] Slide: ScicomP 2012 (May 14-18, 2012), The IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:21:46 +0900
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2012/07/09

"Challenges of Exascale Messaging Library Design: Case Study with Blue Gene Machines"
 Sameer Kumar, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
 Keynote address
 The 2nd Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems
 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
 21 May 2012
  http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/cass2012/talks/kumar.pdf

The 2nd Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems
26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
 21 May 2012
  http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/cass2012/


"Blue Gene/Q: Architecture, Co-Design, and the Road to Exascale"
 Dr. Robert Wisniewski (IBM Research)
 Keynote
 Third Workshop on Computer Architecture and Operating System Co-design
 7th ACM International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures
 and Compilers
 Jan 25th, 2012
  http://projects.csail.mit.edu/caos/2012-01-25-caos-bgq-v1-ed.pdf

Third Workshop on Computer Architecture and Operating System Co-design
7th ACM International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures
and Compilers
 Jan 25th, 2012
  http://projects.csail.mit.edu/caos/


BG/L:  5.7TF/rack  210MF/W, 130nm ASIC (2004 GA)
BG/P: 13.9TF/rack  357MF/W,  90nm ASIC (2007 GA)
BG/Q:  209TF/rack 2000MF/W,  45nm ASIC (Early 2012 GA)

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2012年 5月 14日~18日に開催された

ScicomP, The IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group
 May 14-18, 2012
  http://spscicomp.org/wordpress/scicomp2012/

の Slideが公開されています (一部未だですが)。

[san-tech][03559] "Virident FlashMAX versus Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70", Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Feb 2012

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:12:45 +0900
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2012年 2月に公開された、Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) の
テクニカルレポートです:

"Virident FlashMAX versus Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70"
 February 14th, 2012
  http://user.cscs.ch/news/2012/02/14/virident-flashmax-versus-texas-memory-systems-ramsan-70/

"Comparison of PCIe SLC Flash cards - Virident FlashMAX and Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70"
 Hussein N. El-Harake and Thomas Schoenemeyer
 Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Manno, Switzerland
 February 2012
  http://www.cscs.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/cscs/Tech_Reports/Performance_Analysis_of_SSD_feb_2012_CSCS.pdf
※最新版ドライバでの追試公開は未だのようです。

[san-tech][03558] Slide: 16th Workshop on Distributed Supercomputing (SOS) 2012 (March 12-15, 2012) and 2012 Salishan (April 23-26, 2012)

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:46:22 +0900
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HPC関連ですが、2012年 3月、4月に開催された伝統ある HPCワークショップの
資料が (一部) 公開されています。

SOS16 Workshop, March 12-15, 2012
Theme: Quantifying the Cost of Exascale
  http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Conferences/SOS16/

2012 Salishan Conference Conference on High-Speed Computing,
April 23-26, 2012
Theme: 2015 Petascale Systems: Next Steps
  http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/salishan/

2012/06/02

[san-tech][03557] "EMC Acquires IT Performance Management Leader Watch4net", May 31, 2012

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:33:17 +0900
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EMCのお買い物:

"EMC Acquires IT Performance Management Leader Watch4net"
 Combined Solution Enables Management of Performance and Availability
 Across Physical and Virtual Infrastructures
 May 31, 2012
  http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120531-01.htm

News Summary:
  "EMC acquires performance management software expert Watch4Net Solutions
   Inc in an all-cash transaction."
  .....

Full Story:
  "... Watch4net, a privately-held provider of enterprise and carrier-class
   performance management software that provides real-time, historical
   and projected visibility into network, data center and cloud infrastructure
   performance. ...."

[san-tech][03556] Slide/Video: BSDCan 2012 - The BSD Conference (11-12 May 2012)

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:03:22 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 5月 11, 12日に開催された

BSDCan 2012 - The BSD Conference, 11-12 May 2012
  http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/

の Slide/Videoが公開されています。

Talks - 1 - 2012-05-11
  http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/schedule/day_2012-05-11.en.html
Talks - 2 - 2012-05-12
  http://www.bsdcan.org/2012/schedule/day_2012-05-12.en.html
Video:
BSDCan 2012
  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A10C737F224D0DC

2012/06/01

[san-tech][03555] Video: Kaminario, Nimbus, Pure Storage (April 26, 2012), Solid State Storage Symposium (April 25, 2012), etc, Tech Field Day

Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:30:20 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Tech Field Day
The Independent IT Influencer Event
  http://techfieldday.com/

で以下の Video等を公開しています。

Storage Field Day 1 - Silicon Valley, April 25-27, 2012
  http://techfieldday.com/2012/sfd1/

"Kaminario Presents at Storage Field Day 1"
 Dani Golan, CEO and Founder
 April 26, 2012, Storage Tech Field Day 1, May 3, 2012 (Entry)
  http://techfieldday.com/2012/kaminario-presents-storage-field-day-1/
 *)Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presents the K2 solid state storage solution
   44:10, http://vimeo.com/41501321
Kaminario
  http://www.kaminario.com/
The I/O Storm, Kaminario Blog:
  http://www.theiostorm.com/

"Nimbus Data Presents at Storage Field Day 1"
 Thomas Isakovich, CEO and Founder
 April 26, 2012, Storage Tech Field Day 1, May 4, 2012 (Entry)
  http://techfieldday.com/2012/nimbus-data-presents-storage-field-day-1/
 *)Part 1: Tom Isakovich introduces Nimbus Data to the Storage Field Day delegates
   32:23, http://vimeo.com/41130617
 *)Part 2: Nimbus HALO Operating System Overview
   27:45, http://vimeo.com/41518244
 *)Part 3: Nimbus Market and Pricing
   31:26, http://vimeo.com/41520971
 *)Part 4: Nimbus Performance Tests and Closing Points
   16:30, http://vimeo.com/41561139
Nimbus Data Systems, Inc.
  http://www.nimbusdata.com/

Presentations, Tech Field Day
  http://techfieldday.com/category/news/presentations/

[san-tech][03554] Slide: 3rd Annual UCSD Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2012 (March 4-6, 2012)

Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:59:25 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 4日~6日に、UCSDで開催された、

3rd Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2012, March 4-6, 2012
  http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2012/

の Slideが公開されています:
Program
  http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2012/program

Keynote
Session I: Applications I
Session II: Devices I
Session III: Architecture I
Session IV: ECC I
Session V: Applications II
Keynote
Session VI: Architecture II
Session VII: Devices II
Session VIII: ECC II

2012/05/20

[san-tech][03550] DDN Announces WOS Object Storage Support for Open Compute Project, 05.17.12

Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:52:53 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
DDN (DataDirect Networks) のプレスリリースです:
※OCP (Open Compute Project) ストレージプラットフォームは後半に紹介します。


"DDN Announces WOS Object Storage Support for Open Compute Project (OCP)
 Hardware to Enable Efficient and Connected Hyperscale Data Centers"
 WOS Software on OCP Storage Hardware Enables Global Organizations
 to Build Hyperscale Storage Clouds Capable of Serving Over 55B Objects
 Per Day
 05.17.12
  http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/2012/ddn-announces-wos-object-storage-support-open-compute-project-ocp-hardware-enabl
  http://www.ddn.com/sites/default/files/DDN_OCP%20Press%20Release_FINAL.pdf

  "... today announced support for DDN's Web Object Scaler (WOS),
   its award-winning hyperscale object storage solution, on the recently
   announced Open Compute server and storage platforms in cooperation
   with the Open Compute Project (OCP)."

2012/05/03

[san-tech][03546] Slide/Video: Lustre User Group (LUG) 2012, (Apr 23 - 25, 2012)

Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 10:46:12 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 4月 23日~25日に開催された Lustre User Group (LUG) 2012の
スライドとビデオが公開されています:

LUG 2012 Agenda
  http://www.opensfs.org/lug/program

Presentations
  http://www.opensfs.org/resources-2/presentations

Media (YouTubeへのリンク)
  http://www.opensfs.org/resources-2/videos

[san-tech][03545] Reviews: Marvell-Based SSDs, SandForce-Based SSDs, Tom's Hardware

Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 00:19:58 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012/05/20
"Intel SSD 330 Review: 60, 120, And 180 GB Models Benchmarked"
 May 16, 2012, Tom's Hardware
  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-330-review-benchmark,3190.html

  "Intel recently introduced its SSD 330 family, positioned ahead of
   the SSD 320s and below the SSD 520s. Like the company's highest-end
   models these drives employ SandForce's controller technology. We bought
   all three capacities and ran our tests on them."
--------------------------------------------------
Tom's Hardwareの SSD Review記事です (以下の 3編あります)。

"Marvell-Based SSDs From Corsair, Crucial, OCZ, And Plextor: Tested"
 May 1, 2012, Tom's Hardware

"Ten 60 GB SandForce-Based Boot Drives, Rounded-Up"
 March 1, 2012, Tom's Hardware

"Best SSDs For The Money: April 2012"
 April 26, 2012, Tom's Hardware

Link List: My Photography of "Sakura" (Cherry blossoms) in NAOJ at the Old Blog

国立天文台(東京都三鷹市)の桜を撮影した昔の Blogページへのリンクです:

※TC-1で撮影したものをスキャンしたので、画面上ではあまり美しくありませんが、
気分転換にどうぞ

2012/05/02

[san-tech][03544] Slide/Paper: TACC-Intel Highly Parallel Computing Symposium (2012/04/10, 11)

Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 12:47:12 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 4月 10, 11日に TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) で
開催された、Intel MIC (Many Integrated Core) 関連シンポジウム:

TACC-Intel Highly Parallel Computing Symposium
 April 10th-11th, 2012
  http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ti-hpcs12

の Slide/Paperが公開されています。

2012/04/30

[san-tech][03543] Slide/Video: Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012 (April 3 - 5, 2012)

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:53:15 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
[san-tech][03536] DTrace for Oracle Linux: New Beta release
  Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:20:00 +0900
で名前だけ触れた、

6th Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
 April 3 - 5, 2012
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

の Slide/Video(一部) が公開されています。

"The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive,
 invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers,
 distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors
 and other community organizations for plenary sessions
 and workgroup meetings to meet face-to-face to tackle
 and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today."


Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012 | Slides & Video
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/slides-and-video
※とても広い範囲を対象としています。
50編以上の Slideが公開されています。

[san-tech][03542] Paper/Slide: NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud (Feb. 23, 24, 2012)

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:06 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 2月 23, 24に開催された以下のワークショップの資料が公開されてます:

NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud
 February 23, 2012 - February 24, 2012
  http://dmlab.cs.umn.edu/SocialMobileCloud/index.html

General information
"Social network, mobility and the cloud represent special and unique
 opportunities for synergy among several existing and emerging
 communities that are now often evolving in isolated silos. .....
 ....The potential for cross fertilization among these three areas
 of important research will drive much of the research in academia,
 and the products in industry. It is therefore critical
 that researchers develop a coherent vision for these new directions
 to address a set of diverse topics including designing and
 developing algorithms for large-scale query analysis of mobile
 and social data on the cloud, designing a cloud-based transactional
 model for mobile and social network applications, data storage
 in the cloud, security and privacy of mobile and social network
 applications on the cloud, and addressing the unique characteristics
 of both mobile and social network applications, e.g., data streaming
 and spatial data, on the cloud environment."

[Links]: Intel Xeon Phi/Many Integrated Core (MIC) Related Web Page

Some Links to  Intel Xeon Phi/Many Integrated Core (MIC) Information
==================================================
Many Integrated Core (MIC) Architecture - Advanced, Intel
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/many-integrated-core/intel-many-integrated-core-architecture.html

Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Infographic (2012/06/19)
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/xeon-phi-for-researchers-infographic.html

2012/04/27

[san-tech][03540] Slide/Paper: 28th IEEE Storage Conference (MSST), (April 16th - 20th, 2012)

Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:37:52 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 4月 16日~20日に開催された:

28th IEEE Storage Conference (MSST), April 16th - 20th, 2012
  http://storageconference.org/index.html

のSlide/Paperが公開されています。

2012/04/26

[Links]: Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews, 2012/04/23 (22) & Intel acquires Cray's Interconnect Technology, 2012/04/24

Some Links to Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews & Intel acquires Cray's Interconnect Technology
--------------------------------------------------
2012/06/03
"Core i5-3570K, -3550, -3550S, And -3570T: Ivy Bridge Efficiency"
 May 22, 2012, Tom's Hardware
  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-3570-low-power,3204.html

==================================================
"3rd Generation Intel Core Processors Bring Exciting New Experiences
 and Fun to the PC"
 2012/04/23, IntelPR
  http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/04/23/3rd-generation-intel-core-processors-bring-exciting-new-experiences-and-fun-to-the-pc

2012/04/23

[san-tech][03539] Slide: NSF Workshop on Security for Cloud Computing (March 15-16, 2012)

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:15:45 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 15, 16日に開催された

NSF Workshop on Security for Cloud Computing
  http://illinois.edu/blog/view/695/66281?count=1&ACTION=DIALOG

の Slideが上記 Webページで公開されてます。

[san-tech][03538] Report: "NSF Report on Support for Cloud Computing", Feb 6, 2012.

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:13:11 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012/04/23
[san-tech][03539] Slide: NSF Workshop on Security for Cloud Computing (March 15-16, 2012)
--------------------------------------------------
US NSF (National Science Foundation) から Cloud Computingに関する
レポートが公開 (合衆国議会に提出) されていました:

"NSF Report on Support for Cloud Computing"
 In response to America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524
 Document History: Posted: February 6, 2012, (21 pages)
  http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12040
  http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12040/nsf12040.pdf

2012/04/22

[san-tech][03537] Slide/Paper 3rd Workshop on Data Center - Converged and Virtual Ethernet Switching (2011/09/09)

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:26:11 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
半年以上の前のワークショップですが、2011年 9月 9日に開催された

3rd Workshop on Data Center - Converged and Virtual Ethernet Switching
(DC CAVES)
 September 9, 2011
  http://www.itc23.com/workshops/dc-caves-workshop/
の Slideと Paperが公開されています:

Technical Program (Tentative)
  http://www.itc23.com/workshops/dc-caves-program/
Invited Paper
Transport and interconnection
Network virtualization in the Data Center
Keynote Talk

[san-tech][03536] DTrace for Oracle Linux: New Beta release

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:20:00 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Oracleから Oracle Unbreakable Linux向け DTraceの Beta Releaseが公開
されました (SRPMS日付からだと 15-Feb-2012)

"DTrace for Oracle Linux news: new beta release and conference appearances"
 Apr 05, 2012, Oracle's Linux Blog
  https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/dtrace_for_oracle_linux_news

  "A new set of RPM packages of our port of DTrace for Linux has just been
   published on the Unbreakable Linux Network. This is another beta release of
   our ongoing development effort to bring the DTrace framework to Linux.

   This release includes the following changes:"

   *)The packages are now based on the final public release of
     the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 (2.6.39). ...
   *)Based on the feedback we received from some users in how their
     applications interact with dtrace, libdtrace is now
     a shared library. ...

2012/04/21

[san-tech][03535] IBM GPFS V3.5 Release, EMEA, April 10, 2012

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:47:04 +0900
-------------------------------------------------- 
EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) 対象で、
IBM GPFS (General Parallel File System) V3.5がリリースされました
(USでのリリース日は調べていませんが、リリース済みでしょう):

"IBM GPFS V3.5 offers improved file and data management support (AAS)"
 IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement ZP12-0057
 April 10, 2012
  http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0057
 PDF:
  http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&appname=gpateam&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0057&pdf=yes

At a glance
*)Offers standard file system interfaces on UNIX
  and Microsoft Windows operating systems
*)Allows concurrent reads and writes from multiple nodes
*)Provides high-bandwidth data availability
*)Supports failover and disaster recovery to minimize single points of failure
*)Offers scalable information lifecycle management to allow flexible support of
  different disk classes through policy-driven automation
  and tiered storage management
*)Provides multicluster support and use of multiple networks

2012/04/20

[san-tech][03534] Violin Memory vRAID Technology

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:29:45 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012/07/09
"Violin Memory Enterprise Flash Serviceability",
 2012/06/12, StorageMojo
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW3Gjvkr6vg
  "Violin Memory's V6000 flash storage array has exceptionally low
   and consistent latency as proven on audited TPC-C benchmarks.
   One reason: they don't use standard SSDs. Instead they use
   Violin Intelligent Memory Modules - VIMMs - that, unlike DIMMs,
   are hot swappable."

--------------------------------------------------
2012/06/27
"Violin Memory Enterprise Flash Serviceability"
 2012/06/12, StorageMojo
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW3Gjvkr6vg
   "Violin Memory's V6000 flash storage array has exceptionally low
   and consistent latency as proven on audited TPC-C benchmarks.
   One reason: they don't use standard SSDs. Instead they use
   Violin Intelligent Memory Modules - VIMMs - that, unlike DIMMs,
   are hot swappable."

--------------------------------------------------
StorageMojoによる Violin Memory (Hardware-Based vRAID) 技術紹介ビデオです:

"Violin Memory: a clean-sheet flash architecture"
 2012/04/11, StorageMojo, 4:41, 720p
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=L2VibZhNFbE

"Violin's clean-sheet architecture"
 11 April, 2012, StorageMojo
  http://storagemojo.com/2012/04/11/violins-clean-sheet-architecture/

2012/04/19

[san-tech][03533] Fusion-io SDK Enables Native Flash Memory Access, April 18, 2012

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:52:57 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
Fusion-ioから Software Development Kit (SDK) のアナウンスです:

"Fusion-io Software Development Kit Enables Native Flash Memory Access"
 ioMemory SDK First to Offer Developers Direct Access to Flash Platform
 for Unprecedented Application Acceleration
 April 18, 2012
  http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-software-development-kit-enables-native-flash-memory-access/

  "... today announced the first software development kit (SDK)
   to provide software developers with native access to the ioMemory flash
   platform. By integrating applications directly with this new persistent
   memory tier, developers will be able to optimize enterprise, web,
   and big data applications through direct programmatic access to
   the ioMemory computing layer for the first time."
※API一覧は後で

2012/04/18

[san-tech][01496] CRAY Research, Solid-State Storage Device (SSD)

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:12:17 +0900
-------------------------------------------------


[san-tech][03532] Integration of WhamCloud Chroma Central Management System into DDN ExaScaler, April 17, 2012

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:16:19 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
Lustre管理ツール WhamCloud Chromaが DDN ExaScaler applianceに搭載
されました:

"First-To-Market: Lustre Made Simple by DDN, the HPC Storage Leader"
 Strategic Partnership with WhamCloud allows Integration of Chroma
 Enterprise Management Tools into DDN ExaScaler appliance, to Simplify
 & Accelerate Lustre File System Deployment & Administration
 April 17, 2012
  http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/2012/first-market-lustre-made-simple-ddn-hpc-storage-leader
  http://www.ddn.com/sites/default/files/DDN_Chroma_Release_FINAL.pdf
  http://www.whamcloud.com/news/first-to-market-lustre-made-simple-by-ddn-the-hpc-storage-leader/

  "... today announced that DDN is offeringWhamcloud's Chroma Enterprise
   with its ExaScaler parallel file storage product to radically simplify
   Lustre file system management and accelerate ExaScaler adoption
   within enterprise Big Data environments."

2012/04/17

[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/05/01
"New Name in Holographic Storage: hVault"
 April 30th, 2012, StorageNewsletter
  http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/optical/new-name-in-holographic-storage-hvault

"Holographic storage: this could work"
 April 18, 2012, Storage Bits, News & Blogs, ZDNet
  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/holographic-storage-this-could-work/1657

"HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity"
 HVault also has its eye on the consumer market
 April 17, 2012, ComputerWorld
  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226284/HVault_announces_holographic_storage_system_with_petabytes_of_capacity
-------------------------------------------------
新興 Holographic Storage Systemsメーカー登場です:

hVault Holographic Storage Systems
  http://hvault.com/

Launch Date: Spring 2012
See us at NAB, April 16 -19

[san-tech][03530] SONY: New Mass-Storage Optical Disc Archive Solutions, 「オプティカルディスク・アーカイブ」システム製品化へ、2012年04月16日

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:43:22 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/19
"第564回:NAB 2012レポート その2
 ~ソニーが4K対応予定のNXCAMや新ストレージ~"
  2012年 4月 19日、【小寺信良の週刊 Electric Zooma!】、AV Watch
  http://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/zooma/20120419_527386.html

"Sony whips out new optical mass storage format"
 Hirai's bid for glory looks a lot like Blu-ray...
 18th April 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/18/sony_optical_disk_archive/

[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems
  Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900 
-------------------------------------------------
ソニーからのプレスリリースです:

"大容量光ディスクアーカイブの市場創造に向けて
 - 「アドバイザリーグループ」設立とライセンスプログラム等の提供開始について -"
 2012年04月16日
  http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/201204/12-058/

"Sony Moves Industry toward the Creation of New Mass-Storage Optical Disc
 Archive Solutions"
 April 16, 2012
  http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201204/12-058E/index.html

2012/04/16

[san-tech][03529] Slide: Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Beijing (April 11-12, 2012)

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:06:28 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/26
[Links]: Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews, 2012/04/23 (22) & Intel acquires Cray's Interconnect Technology, 2012/04/24
-------------------------------------------------
2012年 4月 11, 12日に開催された Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Beijing

IDF 2012 Beijing - April 11-12, 2012
  http://www.intel.com/idf/beijing/

の講演資料が以下で公開されています:
Technical Session Catalog
  https://intel.activeevents.com/bj12/scheduler/catalog.do
※左端のカートでまとめダウンロード可能です。

2012/04/13

[san-tech][03526] SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Tutorials: 2012 Spring Edition

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:45:33 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Tutorialsの 2012 Spring版が
公開されています:

SNIA Tutorials
Spring 2012 Tutorials
  http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/2012/spring

[san-tech][03525] Intel SSD 910 Series: PCIe-based 400GB and 800GB, April 12, 2012

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:36:10 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/05/20
"Intel SSD 910 Review: PCI Express-Based Enterprise Storage"
 July 3, 2012, Tom's Hardware
  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-910-benchmark-performance,3226.html

-------------------------------------------------
2012/05/20
"Intel SSD 910 PCI Express SSD Performance Review"
 May 04, 2012, HotHardware
  http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Intel-SSD-910-PCI-Express-SSD-Performance-Review/

-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/26
[Links]: Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews, 2012/04/23 (22) & Intel acquires Cray's Interconnect Technology, 2012/04/24
 
--------------------------------------------------
2012/04/16
[san-tech][03529] Slide: Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Beijing (April 11-12, 2012)
 
-------------------------------------------------
 2012/04/13

"Intel's SSD 910: Finally a PCIe SSD from Intel"
 4/12/2012, AnandTech
  http://www.anandtech.com/show/5743/intels-ssd-910-400800gb-mlchet-pcie-shipping-in-1h-2012
  http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/910/announcement/Intel-SSD-910-Exploded-3-layers-copy.jpg
  "... The first PCB features either two or four SAS SSD controllers, jointly
   developed by Intel and Hitachi (the same controllers are used in Hitachi's
   Ultrastar SSD400M). These controllers are very similar to Intel's
   X25-M/G2/310/320 controller family but with a couple of changes.
   The client controller features a single CPU core, while the Intel/Hitachi
   controller features two cores (one managing the NAND side of the drive
   while the other managing the SAS interface). Both are 10-channel designs,
   although the 910's implementation features 14 NAND packages per controller."

  http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/910/announcement/arch.jpg
   "In front of the four controllers is an LSI 2008 SAS to PCIe bridge. There's
   no support for hardware RAID, each controller presents itself to the OS
   as a single drive with a 200GiB (186GB) capacity. ..."

"Intel's 910 PCIe SSD Enterprise Flash Controller Takes Aim
 At The Datacenter Storage Market"
 April 12, 2012, The SSD Review
  http://thessdreview.com/latest-buzz/intels-910-pcie-x8-2-0-enterprise-flash-controller-takes-aim-at-the-datacenter-storage-market/

"Intel penetrates PCIe flash biz with long-lasting hardness"
 Duracell-Bunny-styled SSD 910 goes on... and on
 13th April 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/13/intel_910/


"インテル、高性能、高耐久性、高信頼性を提供するインテルR SSD 910 シリーズを発表"
 2012 年 4 月 13 日
  http://newsroom.intel.com/community/ja_jp/blog/2012/04/12/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB-%E9%AB%98%E6%80%A7%E8%83%BD-%E9%AB%98%E8%80%90%E4%B9%85%E6%80%A7-%E9%AB%98%E4%BF%A1%E9%A0%BC%E6%80%A7%E3%82%92%E6%8F%90%E4%BE%9B%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB-ssd-910-%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%82%92%E7%99%BA%E8%A1%A8

"インテル SSD 910 シリーズに関する仕様は以下の通りです。
 価格は OEM 向け出荷価格です。小売製品の価格は異なります"
  400 GB: 0.75GB/s/1GB/s: @162,490 円
  800 GB: 1GB/s/2GB/s:    @325,060 円
-------------------------------------------------
Intelから PCIe-based SSD (910 Series) の発表です:

"Intel Solid-State Drive 910 Series Delivers High Performance,
 Endurance and Reliability for Data Center Tiering and Caching"
 April 12, 2012
  http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/04/12/intel-solid-state-drive-910-series-delivers-high-performance-endurance-and-reliability-for-data-center-tiering-and-caching
Intel SSD 910 Series
  http://newsroom.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-4753-2230/Intel-SSD-910-angled_view_sm.jpg

New Intel 900 SSD Family Expands SSD Product Line with PCIe Interface SSD
for Accelerated Data Center Storage

2012/04/12

[san-tech][03523] 04/20 (金) 18:30-:Oracle Solaris ナイト・セミナー#2

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:10:59 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012年 4月 20日 (金) 18:30から

Oracle Solaris ナイト・セミナー#2
  http://atnd.org/event/solarisns2

が開催されます。

主  催:日本オラクル
開催場所:オラクル青山センター
申し込み:上記 ATND経由 (定員:90名)

[san-tech][03524] Report: Many-core Network Processors for High Performance Cyber Protection, 2011 Sep 01, SNL

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:47:43 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
かなりマニアックな報告書 (第一報) です (32 pages):

"Investigating the Effectiveness of Many-core Network Processors
 for High Performance Cyber Protection Systems. Part I, FY2011."
 Publication Date: 2011 Sep 01, Update Date; 2012 Jan 26
 Robert E. Benner, et al. Sandia National Laboratories
  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?&osti_id=1029789

Abstract
"This report documents our first year efforts to address the use of
 many-core processors for high performance cyber protection. ..."

[san-tech][03522] SGI NAS - Modular Open Storage (ZFS), April 10, 2012

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:21:07 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
SGIから ZFSを採用した NASシステムが発表されました:

"SGI Resets the Bar on Network Attached Storage"
 April 10, 2012
  http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2012/april/nas.html

  "... today announced the introduction of SGI NAS, a powerful,
   no-compromise, full-featured enterprise-class open storage solution
   that delivers maximum flexibility to IT managers who must master
   the challenges of inexorable data growth. As the first fully integrated
   solution in the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage product family, SGI NAS
   provides organizations with a full-featured platform that can start small
   and yet scale to multiple petabytes of unified storage according
   to business demands. ..."

2012/04/11

[san-tech][03521]"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs", April 10, 2012, Datanami (Re: Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets)

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:29 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/06/03

"立教大学 経営学部、日本初産学協同によるビッグデータの授業を開講
 ~データ・サイエンティスト育成に力を入れているEMCジャパンが講義に協力~"
 2012年5月22日
  http://japan.emc.com/about/news/press/japan/2012/20120522-1.htm

  "本授業は、立教大学 経営学部 国際経営学科3年次生向けに開講される
   BBP (Bilingual Business Project) (*1) の一環として、2012年の前期の
   授業の中で2012年5月28日から7月9日まで実施されます。EMCジャパンが
   講義を支援し、ビジネスにおけるビッグデータの効果的活用について議論
   します。本授業では、学生が自ら想定顧客を決定し、ビッグデータを活用
   した新しいビジネスモデルやユースケースの提案を最終目標とします。
   最終講義では、グループ単位で成果を発表し、EMCジャパンが評価を実施、
   それをもとに学生への単位が認定されます。"
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/15

Learning From Data - Online Course, Caltech
  http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

A real Caltech course, not a watered-down version
Broadcast live from the lecture hall at Caltech

*)Introductory Machine Learning course
*)Free, live broadcast online
*)Taught by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa
  http://work.caltech.edu/paper/CaltechNews.pdf
*)Prerequisites: Basic probability, matrices, and calculus
*)Live Q&A and online homeworks
*)Scoreboard ranking of participants

Outline
"This is an introductory course on machine learning that covers
 the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. ..."

Lecture  1: The Learning Problem (Tuesday, April 3)
.....
Lecture 18: Epilogue (Thursday, May 31)

Recorded Lectures
  http://work.caltech.edu/previous.html
-------------------------------------------------
Datanamiの特集記事です:

"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs"
 April 10, 2012, Datanami
  http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-10/six_big_name_schools_with_big_data_programs.html

紹介されているプログラムへのリンクです、特徴は記事を参照して下さい。

2012/04/10

[san-tech][03519] "Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta Now Available", April 9, 2012

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:02:15 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/11 

Red Hat Storage 2
 2.0 Release Notes
 Release Notes for Red Hat Storage Beta 1
 Edition 1
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2/html/2.0_Release_Notes/index.html
Chapter 2. What is New in this Release?
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2/html/2.0_Release_Notes/chap-2.0_Release_Notes-Whats_New.html

Red Hat Storage 2
 User Guide
 Using Red Hat Storage Beta 1
 Edition 1
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2/html/User_Guide/index.html
-------------------------------------------------
Red Hatから Red Hat Storage 2.0の Beta版がアナウンスされました:

"Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta Now Available"
 April 9, 2012
  http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/4/red-hat-storage-20-beta-now-available
.....
  "The beta of Red Hat Storage 2.0 previews several key innovations,
   including:"

  *)Unified File and Object Access: Red Hat Storage 2.0 now provides
    the industry's first release of file storage designed to integrate
    seamlessly with object storage, offering organizations greater
    information accessibility, within a single, centralized storage pool;
  *)Big Data Storage Infrastructure: ...
  *)Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ...
    XFS file system (Red Hat's Scalable File System Add-On) ...
  *)Performance Enhancements: ... (NFSv3) performance optimization;
  *)...Red Hat Storage as a storage layer for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  *)Improved Manageability: ...
  *)Improved Reliability: ...

  "If you're interested in learning more about the beta for
   Red Hat Storage 2.0, please contact rhs2.0-beta@redhat.com."

[san-tech][03518] "MySQL at Twitter", April 9, 2012: Twitter: MySQL拡張をオープンソース化 (Optimize MySQL for SSD-based machines等)

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:31:12 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
Twitterが社内で使用している My SQL拡張をオープンソース化しました;

"MySQL at Twitter"
 April 9, 2012, Twitter Engineering Blog
  http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/mysql-at-twitter.html
  "MySQL is the persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data:
   the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves.
   Due to our scale, we push MySQL a lot further than most companies.
   ... we have decided to open source our MySQL work on GitHub under
   the BSD New license. ... Some of the work we’ve done includes:"

*)Add additional status variables, particularly from the internals of InnoDB
*)Optimize memory allocation on large NUMA systems
*)Reduce unnecessary work through improved server-side statement
  timeout support
*)Export and restore InnoDB buffer pool in using a safe and lightweight method
*)Optimize MySQL for SSD-based machines, including page-flushing behavior
  and reduction in writes to disk to improve lifespan

Twitter MySQL wiki
  https://github.com/twitter/mysql/wiki
twitter/mysql, GitHub
  https://github.com/twitter/mysql

[san-tech][03517] Re: "The Magellan Report on Cloud Computing for Science", Dec 2011 (Re: Magellan, US DOE Cloud Project)

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:59:25 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 27, 28日に開催された DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory
Committee(ASCAC) Meetingでの発表資料です (44 Pages):

"Final Report on Magellan and Update on Advanced Networking Initiative"
 Kathy Yelick
 Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences Lawrence Berkeley
 National Laboratory
 Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley
  http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/meetings/Mar12/ANI-Magellan-ASCAC12.pdf

[san-tech][03516] "Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration", April 9, 2012 & Lustre 2.2, March 15, 2012

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:34:42 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/15
"Interview: EMC Speeds Lustre Integration with Whamcloud"
 04.13.2012, insideHPC.com
  http://insidehpc.com/2012/04/13/interview-emc-speeds-lustre-integration-with-whamcloud/
  "To get the full story, I caught up with Percy Tzelnic from EMC's CTO
   Office and the SVP Fast Data Group."
-------------------------------------------------
ちょっと驚き:

"Press Release: Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration"
 April 9, 2012
  http://www.whamcloud.com/news/whamcloud-and-emc-collaborate-on-plfs-and-lustre-integration/

  "... The relationship between the two companies began over a year ago
   and promotes the open source availability of Lustre. Whamcloud and EMC,
   a fellow member of the OpenSFS consortium, are extending their
   collaboration for an additional year.

   Whamcloud and EMC will continue working together to provide deeper
   integration between the Parallel Log-structured File System (PLFS)
   and Lustre. ..."

2012/04/09

[san-tech][03515] Oak Ridge HPC Operational Assessment Report, CY 2011, February 2012

Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:58:42 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilityの CY 2011 (2011/01/01-12/31)
Operational Assessment Report (OAR) です:

"High Performance Computing Facility Operational Assessment,
 CY 2011 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility"
 February 2012, 89 Page
 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science
  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=1036210

2012/04/06

[san-tech][03513] Slide: 2012 High Performance Linux for Wall Street (April 2, 2012), Arista 7124FX Application Switch

Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:20:42 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012年 4月 2日に開催された

2012 High Performance Linux for Wall Street, April 2, 2012
  http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux/2012ConferenceProgram.html
Conference Program
  http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux/2012ConferenceProgram.html
  http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux/12HPCLinuxattendbro.pdf

の講演資料の一部が公開されています:

2012/04/01

[san-tech][03502] US Gov. $200M Big Data R&D Initiative, March 29, 2012 & IPA報告書

Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:49:35 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/18

"SDSC Announces 'Center of Excellence' for Predictive Analytics"
 April 17, 2012, UCSD News Center
  http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/sdsc_announces_center_of_excellence_for_predictive_analytics/

 PACE to Bridge Gap Between Academia, Industry, and Government
  "... is launching a new "center of excellence" aimed at leveraging
   SDSC's data-intensive expertise and resources to help create
   the next generation of data researchers by leading a collaborative,
   nationwide education and training effort among academia, industry,
   and government.

   SDSC is providing seed funding for the program, called PACE
   for Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence. ..."
.....
  "While education and training initiatives are a large part of PACE,
   the project will also be open to collaborations and projects
   with industry and government, especially using Gordon, a unique,
   data-intensive supercomputer recently introduced by SDSC
   and which currently ranks among the 50 fastest supercomputers
   in the world."
.....
Federal Focus on Big Data
  "SDSC's PACE program comes as the administration's Office of Science
   and Technology Policy (OSTP) last month announced $200 million in
   funding for new investments in big data research and development
   projects with the announcement of its Big Data initiative"

PACE (Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence)
  http://pace.sdsc.edu/
-----
[san-tech][03521]"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs", April 10, 2012, Datanami (Re: Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets)
  Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:29 +0900 
-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/06

"7 Big Winners in the U.S. Big Data Drive"
 April 05, 2012, Datanami
  http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-05/7_big_winners_in_u.s._big_data_drive.html

#1 DARPA XDATA Program
#2 The Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (SDAV) Institute
#3 An Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) for Climate Research
#4 Big Data for Earth System Science
#5 Department of Homeland Security
   & Center for Excellence on Visualization and Data Analytics (CVADA)
#6 Big Data for the CDC
#7 The Machine Reading Program, DARPA

-------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 29日に、米国オバマ政権から $200 Million規模の Big Data
Research and Development Initiativeが発表されました:

Press Video (116:36):
"Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data"
 Thursday, March 29, 2012, from 2-3:45 pm ET
"NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data", March 29, 2012
 All Images (真ん中あたり)
  http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=123607
  "Broadcast of OSTP-led federal government big data rollout
   March 29, 2012, in the AAAS Auditorium in Washington, DC"
"Video from Thursday's Big Data R&D Initiative Launch Posted"
 March 31st, 2012, CCC Blog
  http://www.cccblog.org/2012/03/31/video-from-thursdays-big-data-rd-initiative-launch-posted/
※解説付き

Press Release:
"OBAMA ADMINISTRATION UNVEILS "BIG DATA" INITIATIVE:
 ANNOUNCES $200 MILLION IN NEW R&D INVESTMENTS"
 March 29, 2012
 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
 Executive Office of the President
 The White House
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release_final_2.pdf

2012/03/30

[san-tech][03500] Morphlabs Launches First All SSD Cloud Platform, March 26, 2012

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:38:21 +0900
-------------------------------------------------
Morphlabsから All SSD Cloud Platformがアナウンスされました:

"Morphlabs Launches First All Solid State Drive (SSD) Cloud Platform
 based on Dell Technology"
 March 26, 2012
  http://www.morphlabs.com/news/morphlabs-launches-first-all-solid-state-drive-ssd-cloud-platform-based-on-dell-technology/

  "Morphlabs, the leader in converged Dynamic Infrastructure Services
   for the enterprise, today announced the first end-to-end SSD cloud
   platform for data centers, service providers and global enterprise
   customers. Morphlabs' mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) will be powered
   by the Dell PowerEdge C portfolio, the hyperscale server line
   developed by the Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) team"

2012/03/29

[san-tech][03498] Slide: OpenFabrics User and Developer Workshop (Mar. 25-28, 2012)

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:41:38 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 25~28日に開催された

OpenFabrics User and Developer Workshop, March 25-28, 2012
  https://www.openfabrics.org/press-room/ofa-workshop.html
2012 OFA User and Developer Workshop Agenda
  https://www.openfabrics.org/images/docs/PR/schedule.pdf

の Slideが公開されています:

2012/03/28

[san-tech][03496] FINAL PROJECT REPORT: "Recovery Act: SeaMicro Volume Server Power Reduction Research Development", 03/22/2012

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:14:07 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
オバマ政権の景気刺激策 (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
ARRA 2009) の一環として DOEから $9.3Mの投資を受けた SeaMicroの報告書です:

"Recovery Act: SeaMicro Volume Server Power Reduction Research Development"
 FINAL PROJECT REPORT (29 pages)
 Andrew Fetter (SeaMicro, Inc.), et al.
 Publication Date: 2012 Mar 22
  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=1036957

[san-tech][03495] Re: $1,5B Data Center (National Security Agency: NSA)

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:04:26 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
以前紹介した、NSA (National Security Agency) データセンターに関しての記事です:

"The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)"
 March 15, 2012, Wired.com
  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

[san-tech][03494] DISC Archiving Systems: New Blu-ray Archival Storage Library, 26 March 2012

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:29:02 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Blu-ray Archival Storage Libraryのアナウンスです:

"DISC Archiving Systems Announces New ArXtor Series of Blu-ray Archival
 Storage Libraries"
 Next generation of Blu-ray archival storage libraries including
 iSCSI connectivity and Purpose-Built Virtual Appliance options
 to support industry leading Middleware archival tiered-storage
 management solutions
 26 March 2012
  http://www.disc-group.com/company/news/disc-introduces-new-arxtor-series/

  "DISC Archiving Systems B.V. ("DISC"), market leader in professional
   data archiving, is proud to announce the New ArXtor Series, the next
   generation of Blu-ray Archival Storage Library Solutions."

2012/03/27

[san-tech][03493] "Btrfs: The Swiss Army Knife of Storage, February 2012, USENIX ;login:

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:10:03 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012/06/08
Btrfs開発の中心人物の Chris Masonさんが、 Oracleを去り 2012年 6月 11日
から Fusion-ioに移られるそうです。

From: Chris Mason <chris.mason <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Leaving Oracle
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.file-systems, gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs
Date: 2012-06-07 01:04:48 GMT (1 day and 54 minutes ago)
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/65090/
..,,,
> Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their
> support for my projects.  But, I've decided to take a new position at
> Fusion-io.  I will start the new job on Monday, June 11.
>
> From a Btrfs point of view, very little will change.  I'll still
> maintain Btrfs and will continue all of my Btrfs development in the
> open.  Oracle will still use Btrfs in their Oracle Linux products, and
> I'll work with all of the distros using Btrfs in production.
>
> Fusion-io really believes in open source, and I'm excited to help
> them shape the future of high performance storage.
.....
とのことです。

--------------------------------------------------
USENIX ;login: (February 2012) の Btrfs解説記事が公開されています:

"Btrfs: The Swiss Army Knife of Storage"
 Josef Bacik, Lead developer on Btrfs for Red Hat
 ;login: issue: February 2012
  https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/february-2012/btrfs-swiss-army-knife-storage

[san-tech][03492] Paper: Virtual Execution Environments 2012, (March 3 - 4 2012)

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:00:58 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 3, 4日、ASPLOS 2012のワークショップとして開催された

Eighth Annual International Conference on
Virtual Execution Environments (VEE 2012), March 3 - 4 2012
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/vee_2012/programme.html

の Paperが上記 Webページで公開されています。

[san-tech][03491] Cleversafe's New Models: Highest Reliability, Lowest Cost, Lowest Power Consuming, March 26, 2012

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:34:27 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Object-Based Access分散ストレージメーカーの Cleversafeから低価格ラインが
アナウンスされました:

"Cleversafe Announces New Slicestor Models Propelling Its Limitless
 Data Storage System Well Ahead of the Industry in Power Efficiency
 and Reliability"
 Cleversafe's Innovative Object-Based Dispersed Storage Technology
 Combined with Its New Slicestor Models Delivers the Highest Reliability,
 Lowest Cost, Lowest Power Consuming Big Data Storage Solution Available
 March 26, 2012
  http://www.cleversafe.com/news-reviews/press-releases/157-cleversafe-announces-new-slicestor-models-propelling-its-limitless-data-storage-system-well-ahead-of-the-industry-in-power-efficiency-and-reliability

2012/03/25

[san-tech][03489] ASHRAE Whitepaper - Liquid Cooling Guidelines (2011/09)

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:20:42 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012/07/19
Coming Soon ...
"The previous Thermal Guidelines (Thermal & Liquid Cooling) have been
 remove due to the anticipated release of the 3rd Edition of
 the Thermal Guidelines which will be published soon.  Please check back
 to the site for the latest updates."
 July 6, 2012, ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9
  http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/

--------------------------------------------------
2011年 9月に、ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers) から、液冷に関する White Paperが公開されて
ました:

"ASHRAE Introduces New Liquid Cooled Datacom Environmental Classes"
 Sep 27, 2011
  http://www.ashrae.org/news/2011/ashrae-introduces-new-liquid-cooled-datacom-environmental-classes

  ""2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments"
   creates data center classes for liquid cooling that can enable fulltime
   economizers for a number of applications in many climates, according
   to according to Don Beaty, chair of the Publications Subcommittee of
   ASHRAE's Technical Committee (TC) 9.9, Mission Critical Facilities,
   Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment."
.....
  "This whitepaper follows an earlier whitepaper released in May 2011,
   "2011 Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments - Expanded
   Data Center Classes and Usage Guidance," which addresses air cooling
   in data centers and created new data center environmental classes
   which expanded the opportunity for chiller-less data centers
   (fulltime economizers)."

[san-tech][03488] Slide: Green Grid Forum 2012 (March 6-7, 2012) & Free Cooling Map Update

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:31:46 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2012年 3月 6~7日に開催された

The Green Grid Forum 2012 and Member Meeting, March 6-7, 2012
  http://www.thegreengrid.org/events/TGGforum-2012.aspx

の一般向け資料 (10編) が公開されています。

Program:
  http://www.thegreengrid.org/events/~/media/Forum2012/TGGForum2012eProgram.pdf
Library & Tools
  http://www.thegreengrid.org/library-and-tools.aspx

  "2012 Forum Data ...."
   General
です。例えば

2012/03/22

[san-tech][03487] Xyratex SP-2584: Up to 2PB in a single rack (3.5" 3TB SAS x 84 x 8)

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:24:54 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Xyratexから、1ラックで 2PB (3.5インチ 3TB SAS) 搭載可能なシステムが
OEM向けに発表されました。

"Xyratex Announces OneStor 2584"
 March 21, 2012
  http://xyratex.com/Company/News/Detail.aspx?ID=320

5U筐体に 3.5インチ 3TB SASを 84台 (252TB)、8筐体 (40U) で 2,016TBです。

[san-tech][03486] Re: DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR) Quest) Challenge

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:19:59 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
チャレンジの結果です。解説記事から

"DARPA Challenge Doesn't Go Viral On Twitter"
 Agency ends two-week QR-related contest--promoted only through
 Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks--without anyone
 finding all 7 posters with special codes.
 March 19, 2012, InformationWeek
  http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/232602820

  "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently
   ended its CLIQR challenge without anyone successfully completing
   the contest's full task, giving the agency new insights into
   the effectiveness of social networks versus more traditional
   forms of online communications and media outreach to spread
   information."
.....
  "The idea behind the challenge was to get people to respond quickly
   to simulate how citizens might mobilize for aid and relief during
   a time of crisis, according to the challenge's website ..."
.....
  "The key to the challenge was that DARPA did not engage in its
   usual outreach strategy ... Instead, it used Twitter to announce
   the challenge and encouraged participants to use their own social
   networks as well, such as Facebook, to find the posters."

2012/03/21

[san-tech][03485] Re: Paper/Slide/Video: USENIX FAST '12 (Feb 14-17, 2012)

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:37:13 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
ちょっと間が開きましたが、StorageMojo恒例の FAST Best Three Paperです:
(FAST URLは上から Abstract, Full Paper(一部 Update版), Slide, Video)

-----
"Optimizing NAND Flash-Based SSDs via Retention Relaxation"
 Ren-Shuo Liu and Chia-Lin Yang, National Taiwan University;
 Wei Wu, Intel Corporation
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/techAbstracts.html#Liu
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Liu.pdf
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/slides/Liu.pdf
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/optimizing-nand-flash-based-ssds-retention-relaxation
"Doubling flash write performance through retention relaxation"
 27 February, 2012, StorageMojo
  http://storagemojo.com/2012/02/27/doubling-flash-write-performance-through-retention-relaxation/

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"Adding Advanced Storage Controller Functionality via Low-Overhead Virtualization"
 Muli Ben-Yehuda, Michael Factor, Eran Rom, and Avishay Traeger, IBM Research-Haifa;
 Eran Borovik and Ben-Ami Yassour
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/techAbstracts.html#Ben-Yehuda
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda.pdf
*)Updated full paper, 2/2/12:
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda2-2-12.pdf
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/slides/Ben-Yehuda.pdf
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/adding-advanced-storage-controller-functionality-low-overhead-virtualization
"Virtualizing storage controllers"
 28 February, 2012, StorageMojo
  http://storagemojo.com/2012/02/28/virtualizing-storage-controllers/

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"The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory"
 Laura M. Grupp, University of California, San Diego;
 John D. Davis, Microsoft Research, Mountain View;
 Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/techAbstracts.html#Grupp
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Grupp.pdf
*)Updated full paper, 2/6/12:
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Grupp2-6-12.pdf
*)Updated full paper, 2/8/12:
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Grupp2-8-12.pdf
  http://static.usenix.org/event/fast12/tech/slides/Grupp.pdf
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/bleak-future-nand-flash-memory
"NAND's dimming future"
 29 February, 2012, StorageMojo
  http://storagemojo.com/2012/02/29/nands-dimming-future/

2012/03/20

[san-tech][03481] "The New iPad - Generation 3 Teardown and Apple A5X IC Analysis, 16th March 2012, UBM TechInsights

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:15:58 +0900
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New iPad - Generation 3の解体分析です。

"The New iPad - Generation 3 Teardown and Apple A5X IC Analysis"
 16th March 2012, UBM TechInsights
  http://ubmtechinsights.com/teardowns/new-apple-ipad-gen3-teardown-analysis/
※主としてデバイスの解析です。


こちらは姉妹サイト EETimesの記事です。
画像は基本的に同じですがスライド形式です (少々うざいですが):
"Teardown slideshow: Inside the third-generation iPad"
 3/16/2012, EETimes (18 pages)
  http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4238192/Teardown-slideshow--Inside-the-third-generation-iPad