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

2011/08/31

[san-tech][03363] Fusion-io ioCache = ioDrive + ioTurbine, Aug. 29, 2011

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:46:49 +0900
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早くも製品化です。

"Fusion-io Unveils ioCache Virtualization Solution"
 Fusion's ioTurbine Software and Customized ioMemory Accelerator
 Virtualizes Flash to Deliver Affordable Performance for
 Virtualizing Data-Intensive Enterprise Applications
 Aug. 29, 2011
  http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-unveils-iocache-virtualization-solution/
  http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1e8imv/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioCache_8.26.11.pdf
.....
  "When deployed in a VMware environment, Fusion's ioTurbine software
   dynamically provisions ioMemory capacity and I/O performance across
   multiple virtual machines (VMs) by using Fusion's VSL OS Subsystem
   to house and serve data for each VM.  Tight integration of VSL's
   host-based flash management and ioTurbine's cache management
   eliminates otherwise redundant mapping functions, maximizing I/O
   performance and adding a critical and previously missing piece
   to virtualized IT environments - a plentiful supply of scalable,
   low-latency I/O."

  "Through this approach, Fusion-io unites the benefits of flash and
   cache without the overhead costs created by integrating each
   technology through traditional architectures using storage
   protocols and embedded processors. This solution avoids the need
   for expensive, performance-oriented networked storage systems,
   SSD arrays and memory appliances that struggle to deliver
   performance from the far end of a network, instead allowing
   enterprises to use cost optimized shared storage systems."
.....
  "Available exclusively in bundles with ioTurbine software,
   Fusion's ioCachedelivers 600GB of capacity optimized to support
   the majority of virtualized application workloads. "

2011/08/30

[san-tech][03362] Citrix: Cloud.comをオープンソース化、8/29/2011

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:37:25 +0900
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Citrix社が、2011年 7月に買収した Cloud.comをオープンソース化しました:

"Citrix Opens Up the Cloud for VMware Customers"
 Latest Release of CloudStack Brings the Leading Open Source Cloud
 Platform to VMware vSphere and OracleVM Users
 8/29/2011
  http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=2315523

  "Citrix Systems today announced a new edition of CloudStack, which
   will feature enhanced support for both the VMware vSphere and
   Oracle VM hypervisors, enabling VMware and Oracle customers
   to manage their virtualized servers as a highly available, scalable
   cloud computing environment.  Citrix CloudStack is not just
   a traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with
   cloud management layered on top, it is a production-ready, free
   and open source cloud infrastructure platform that helps providers
   of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services
   that are scalable, secure, and open by design.  The new release is
   based on the same CloudStack solution that has been used by some of
   the world's largest and most successful public clouds to roll out
   new cloud services up to 50 times faster and at one-fifth the cost
   of alternative solutions(1).  This is the first release of
   the product since Citrix acquired Cloud.com in July."

2011/08/29

[san-tech][03361] Re: Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 Proceedings (2011/08/09 - 11)

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:51:09 +0900
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[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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↑で紹介した David Floyerさんの記事が更新されました:

"2011 Flash Memory Summit Enterprise Roundup
 Last Update: Aug 28, 2011, Wikibon
 Originating Author: David Floyer

[san-tech][03360] Intel Cilk Plus is now available in open-source and for GCC 4.7!, August 9, 2011

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:15:58 +0900
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Intelから C/C++を拡張した並列言語 Cilkがオープンソースとして公開され
ました。Cilkの発音は "silk" です (以下の MITサイトから)。

Intel Cilk Plus
  http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus/
"Intel Cilk Plus is now available in open-source and for GCC 4.7!"

"Parallelism as a First Class Citizen in C and C++, the time has come."
 August 9, 2011, Intel Software Blogs
  http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/08/09/parallelism-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-c-and-c-the-time-has-come/

[san-tech][03359] The SSD Review (SSD情報サイト)

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:56:50 +0900
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SSD情報サイトです:

The SSD Review
The Worlds Dedicated SSD Resource and Review Site
  http://thessdreview.com/

About Us
  http://thessdreview.com/background/
"The SSD Review was officially launched and available to the public
 on March 28, 2010."

"The roots of the site can be traced back to August 29, 2007 when
 the Publisher, Les Tokar, published the first review of a solid
 state drive on the internet with his review of the Sandisk U5000
 32Gb SLC SSD."
.....
"All original articles are published here at The SSD Review
 in order to assist in an understanding of how fast we are
 progressing in the world of SSD storage."

2011/08/28

[san-tech][03358] Panasas Webinar: "pNFS-Are We There Yet?" (Aug. 24, 2011)

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:02:14 +0900
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2011年 8月 24日の Panasasの Webinar: "pNFS-Are We There Yet?" の
ビデオが公開されています:

WEBINAR: PNFS - ARE WE THERE YET?
  http://www.panasas.com/news/webinars/pnfs-are-we-there-yet

YouTube
"WEBINAR: pNFS-Are We There Yet?"
 Panasas pNFS Update
 2011/08/24, PanasasHPC, 50:35, 720p
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTu6VxRrQM

  "NFS has been the standard protocol for NAS systems since the 1980s.
   However, with the explosive growth of Linux clusters running
   demanding technical computing applications, NFS is no longer
   sufficient for these big data workloads. After years of development
   effort, driven by Panasas and others, pNFS is now just around
   the corner and promises to dramatically improve Linux client
   I/O performance thanks to its parallel architecture.

   Geoffrey Noer, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Panasas
   presents this on-demand webinar -- "pNFS: Are We There Yet?""

2011/08/25

[san-tech][03356] 白色LEDで 100Mbpsデータ転送 (100Mbps by white-light LEDs)

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:17:15 +0900
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EUのプロジェクトで白色 LED可視光を利用して 100Mbpsのデータ転送に
成功しました:

"Data are traveling by light"
 Research News August 2011
 Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT

  "Regular LEDs can be turned into optical WLAN with only a few
   additional components thanks to visible light communication
   (in short, VLC). The lights are then not just lighting up, they
   also transfer data. They send films in HD quality to your iPhone
   or laptop, with no loss in quality, quickly and safely."
.....
  "... since scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for
   Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin,
   Germany, have developed a new transfer technology for video data
   within the scope of the OMEGA project of the EU, its
   implementation in real life is getting markedly closer. At the
   end of May, the scientists were able to present the results of
   the project in Rennes, France. They were able to transfer data
   at a rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) without any losses,
   using LEDs in the ceiling that light up more than ten square
   meters (90 square feet). The receiver can be placed anywhere
   within this radius, which is currently the maximum range.

2011/08/23

[san-tech][03354] Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility, August 23rd, 2011

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:54:10 +0900
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まだ GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2レベルですが、

"Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility in Latest
 GlusterFS Release"
 August 23, 2011

  "... today announced the release of GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 which
   includes compatibility for Apache Hadoop. This latest enhancement
   to GlusterFS uses the standard file system APIs available in Hadoop
   to provide a new storage option for Hadoop deployments. With this
   new feature, GlusterFS is the first open source, POSIX-compliant
   file and object storage solution that works with Hadoop. Compatible
   with existing MapReduce-based applications and with the ability
   to co-exist with HDFS, this new functionality opens up data within
   Hadoop deployments to any file- or object-based application,
   providing a broad new range of options for big data deployments."

2011/08/21

[san-tech][03352] Slide: Titan Summit (Cray XK6, 20PF Peek), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), (2011/08/15 - 17)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:27:50 +0900
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こちらも US DOE HPC関連ですが、Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilityの
次期 HPC: Titan (20PF Peak, Cray XK6, Opteron + GPU)についてのワークショップ
資料が公開されました:

Titan Summit
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), August 15 - 17, 2011
  http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/event/titan-summit/

"The summit will provide a forum for current and prospective users
 to meet with OLCF staff and industry vendors to discuss Titan,
 the next-generation leadership-class computational resource, and
 a significant step towards exascale computing at the OLCF.  Users
 are encouraged to present their application plans for scaling
 to exascale."

[san-tech][03351] Slide: US DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection (2011/08/16 - 19)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:04:23 +0900
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US DOEの HPC関連ワークショップの

12th Workshop on the DOE
Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection
August 16-19, 2011

講演資料が公開されました。

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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