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

2012/01/12

[Slides/Papers]: Panasas, Object-Based Storage Device, Cray DVS, Berkeley RAID, Sprite OS Project (Log-Structured File Systems), InCast and etc.

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2012/10/09
Gold Sponsorship session (Panasas)
 Chris Weeden, Panasas
 HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, September 13th, 2012
  http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/Spain-Workshop/pres/8_Panasas.pdf

HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, September 13th, 2012
Agenda
  http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/Spain-Workshop/agenda.php


"Intelligent Application of SSDs to Accelerate HPC Workloads"
 October 01, 2012
 HPCwire, Sponsored Content by Panasas
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-10-01/intelligent_application_of_ssds_to_accelerate_hpc_workloads.html


Webinars, Panasas
"SSD-Accelerated Scale-out NAS"
 Geoffrey Noer, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Panasas
  http://www.panasas.com/news/webinars

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2012/09/30
"Panasas Unveils New Storage Appliance with SSD Acceleration"
 September 17, 2012, Michael Feldman, HPCwire
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-09-17/panasas_unveils_new_storage_applicance_with_ssd_acceleration.html

  ActiveStor 14:  (2x4TB HDD + 120GB SSD +  8GB cache) x 10 : $125K
  ActiveStor 14:  (2x4TB HDD + 300GB SSD +  8GB cache) x 10 : $145K
  ActiveStor 14T: (2x2TB HDD + 480GB SSD + 16GB cache) x 10 : $160K
  *) + One Director Blade

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2012/09/18
"Panasas Introduces ActiveStor 14"
 SSD-Accelerated Scale-out NAS Appliance Delivers Extreme Bandwidth and
 Small File Performance for Big Data Workloads
 Sept. 17, 2012
  http://www.panasas.com/news/press-releases/panasas-introduces-activestor-14

ActiveStor 14
  http://www.panasas.com/products/activestor-14
ActiveStor 14 Accelerated by SSD Technology
  http://www.panasas.com/products/activestor-14/ssd-technology
New in PanFS 5
  http://www.panasas.com/products/panfs/new-panfs-5


"The Benefits of Object RAID"
 September 14, 2011, Brent Welch, CTO, Blog
  http://panasas.com/blog/benefits-of-object-RAID

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2012/03/30
"Faster Memory, Faster Compute"
 Structure: Data 2012, March 22, 2012, 2:50 PM
  http://event.gigaom.com/structuredata/schedule/
 Moderated by: Rich Brueckner - President, inside-BigData
 Speakers:
    Gary Grider - Deputy Division Leader, HPC Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Garth Gibson - Co-Founder and CTO, Panasa

"Another big obstacle to exascale computing: resilience"
 

Resilience: Another Big Obstacle to Exascale Computing


"Video: HPC Panel at Structure: Data"
 03.28.2012, insideHPC
  http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/28/video-hpc-panel-at-structure-data/

Structure: Data 2012, March 21 -22, 2012
  http://event.gigaom.com/structuredata/

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"Future Forms of Solid State Technology"
 March 26, 2012, Panasas Blog
  http://www.panasas.com/blog/solid-state-future
"Garth Gibson on Future Forms of Solid State Technology"
 2012/03/14,
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIPDgzeilo

"Panasas kingpin: What's the solid state state of play?"
 Garth Gibson on HPC - buffering the brute-force burst
 29th March 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/panasas_on_ssd/

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2012/01/12
There are some useful URLs for the following topics:

Panasas Parallel File System (2004, 07, 08)
Panasas System & pNFS (2011)
Cray DVS (Data Virtualization Service) & Panasas
Object-Based Storage Device
Berkeley RAID
Sprite OS Project (Log-Structured File Systems)
InCast
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