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2011/12/16

[san-tech][03423] "NILFS 2.0.22 was released", Jun 19, 2011 JST.

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:29:38 +0900
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国産 (?) Log Structured File System: NILFSも継続してますね：

NILFS
http://www.nilfs.org/ja/index.html
http://www.nilfs.org/en/index.html

[san-tech][03422] PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version 2.1, 2011-10-13

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:02:37 +0900
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[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
> "Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
> December 21, 2011
> http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html
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ちょっとマニアックかもしれませんが、PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System
の開発が進行しています：

PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications
http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/
"PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications"
John Bent, Garth Gibson, Gary Grider, Ben McClelland,
Paul Nowoczynski, James Nunez, Milo Polte, Meghan Wingate
SC '09
http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/plfs.pdf

2011/12/11

[san-tech][03421] Research Note: Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:11:39 +0900
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こちらも Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) ワークショップです。
Research Noteが公開されています：

2nd International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance
Computer Systems (PMBS11), November 13th 2011
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~sdh/pmbs11/PMBS11/Workshop_Schedule.html

[san-tech][03420] Paper: 1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases at SC '11(2011/11/18)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:58:04 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていたこちらのワークショップの
ペーパーが公開されています：

1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases
November 18, 2011
http://hpcdb.org/program

[san-tech][03419] "2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments", ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:01 +0900
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ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc.) Technical Committee (TC) 9.9 から以下のホワイトペーパが
公開されてました：

"2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments"
Whitepaper prepared by ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9
Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces, and Electronic Equipment
2011/09/23
http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/documents/ASHRAE%202011%20Liquid%20Cooling%20Whitepaper.pdf

[san-tech][03418] Slide, Paper: 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop at SC '11 (2011/11/13)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:27:19 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていた：

6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
held in conjunction with Supercomputing '11
November 13, 2011
http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW11/

のペーパーと講演資料が上記 Webサイトで公開されています。

[san-tech][03417] Slide: OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) at Supercomputing 11 (SC '11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:47:35 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) での、OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) メンバー
発表資料が公開されました：

SC11
This folder contains the presentations by members at Supercomputing 2011
(SC11) in November, 2011.
https://www.openfabrics.org/resources/document-downloads/presentations/cat_view/57-ofa-documents/23-presentations/39-trade-shows/72-sc11.html
※ブラウザーによってはアクセス出来ない場合があります。

2011/12/09

[san-tech][03416] IBM GPFS Native RAID & USENIX LISA '11

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:46:00 +0900
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2012/12/03
"Managing multi-petabyte disk systems using GPFS Native RAID"
Crispin Keable - IBM
23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23), 27, 28/11/2012
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/uploads/mew23/keable.pdf

23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23) - Agenda (Slides)
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/mew23?agenda=1
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2012/04/21
[san-tech][03535] IBM GPFS V3.5 Release, EMEA, April 10, 2012
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:47:04 +0900
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現在開催中の USENIX LISA '11 (Dec. 4 - 9, 2011) の Technical Session
INVITED TALKS II, December 8で発表されている

"GPFS Native RAID for 100,000-Disk Petascale Systems"
Veera Deenadhayalan, IBM Almaden Research Center
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/tech/slides/deenadhayalan.pdf

[san-tech][03415] pNFS in Technology Preview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:41:57 +0900
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先頃発表された Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2に pNFS関連が含まれています

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 - What's New
http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RHEL_6_2_features_benefits.pdf

Parallel NFS (pNFS) in Technology Preview
Transfer rates faster than NFS support
*) pNFS is an extension of NFS that provides significantly larger data
   transfer rates compared to the traditional NFS architectures. This
   is achieved by processing the meta-data (a typical bottle neck for
   I/O throughput) separately from the actual data. By separating
   the meta-data and the data paths, pNFS allows clients to access
   storage devices directly and in parallel. pNFS is a part of standard
   NFS version 4.1 specification.
*) Support for pNFS is limited to client-side functionality for file
   layout only.

[san-tech][03414] TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720 (12-TB, SLC, 1U), December 6, 2011

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:02:33 +0900
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Twitterで URLは流したのですが、

"TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720
(12-TB, SLC, 1U) Flash storage system that scales to 500-TB within a single rack"
December 6, 2011
http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/149

"The RamSan-720 offers 12 TB of Flash capacity, 5 GB/s of bandwidth,
   and no single point of failure. Its proprietary 2D Flash RAID
   technology delivers a new level of High Availability and data
   protection for mission-critical data sets."

2011/12/08

[san-tech][03413] Re: Slide: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011 (2011/12/06, 07)

Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:58:05 +0900
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2011年 12月 6、7と開催された：

HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011, December 6-7, 2011
http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/Stanford-Workshop/index.php

の講演資料が公開されています。

2011/12/04

[san-tech][03410] Slide: October 2011 Open Networking Summit (2011/10/17 - 19)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:19:50 +0900
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2011年 10月 17日～19日に開催された

October 2011 Open Networking Summit
http://opennetsummit.org/past_conferences.html

の講演資料等が上記 Webページで公開されています。

Two tutorials
Keynote Session
Power of SDN: Shaping the Future
SDN for Data Center Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
SDN for Enterprise Networks: Technology, Applications, Markets
Keynote and ONF Information session
SDN for Service Provider Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
Wrap up Panel: Opportunities and Challenges with OpenFlow/SDN in the Market Place

[san-tech][03409] "日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU（国際電気通信連合）の国際規格として採用"、2012/12/02

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:07:50 +0900
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株式会社日立製作所と株式会社日立プラントテクノロジーのプレスリリースです：

"日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU（国際電気通信連合）
の国際規格として採用"
2011年12月2日
株式会社日立製作所
株式会社日立プラントテクノロジー
http://www.hitachi-pt.co.jp/news/2011/pdf/20111202.pdf

[san-tech][03407] Slide: Server Design Summit 2011 (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:26:44 +0900
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2011年 11月 29、30日に開催された：

Server Design Summit 2011
http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/

講演資料が公開されています。

Get the Server Design Summit Proceedings
http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/Array_Pages/Entrance_Proceedings.html

[san-tech][03405] Re: 東大京大でスパコンメーカ交代

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:48:57 +0900
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京大次期スーパーコンピュータシステムについて Registerの記事です：

"Cray notches another XE6-Cascades super deal",
Dancing the Japanese two-step,
29th November 2011,
The Register,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/cray_xe6_cascade_super_kyoto_university/

2011/10/07

[san-tech][03398] "OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team from PLX Technology", 2011-10-05

Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:23:22 -0400
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"OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team from PLX Technology"
Experienced R&D Team and Access to Intellectual Property to Speed Time
to Market and Reduce Development Costs for Company’s Next Generation
SSD Solutions
2011-10-05
http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/453

"... today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire
the UK Design Team and certain assets from PLX Technology, further
strengthening the company’s global research and development team."

"PLX's UK Design Team has built a reputation for designing innovative
and reliable system-on-chip (SOC) solutions and the acquired
engineering team’s expertise provides OCZ with additional resources
for controller design. Through the acquisition of the engineering
team and the license of intellectual property (IP), OCZ will be able
to accelerate solid state drive development, reducing its time
to market for next generation SSD products, while also reducing
development costs."

2011/10/05

[san-tech][03396] "Red Hat to Acquire Gluster", October 4, 2011

Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:16:23 -0400
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"Red Hat to Acquire Gluster"
*) Ushers in New Era of Software-Based Open Storage Platforms to
Unify On-Premise and Cloud
*) Adds Scale-Out Management of Unstructured Data to Red Hat Portfolio
with Gluster's Disruptive Open Source Storage Solutions
October 4, 2011
http://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/press-release.html
http://www.gluster.com/2011/10/04/red-hat-to-acquire-gluster/

"... today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement
to acquire Gluster, Inc., a leading provider of scale-out,
open source storage solutions for standardizing the management
of unstructured data. With this acquisition,"

2011/10/03

[san-tech][03395] Fusion-io: ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, Oct. 3, 2011

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:55:29 -0400
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Fusion-ioからのプレスリリースです：

"New Storage Class Memory Beats Fusion ioDrive On All Metrics"
Next-Generation Enterprise Flash Product Delivers More Capacity,
Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Better Performance, All at
a Lower Cost: Introducing the New ioDrive2 from Fusion-io
Oct. 3, 2011
http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/new-storage-class-memory-beats-fusion-iodrive-on-all-metrics/
http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1g1rrm/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioDrive2_FINAL.pdf

"... today announced the next evolution of its ioMemory platform
for powering application acceleration and data center optimization.
The company that broke performance barriers, brought you the first
enterprise MLC products, dramatically enhanced reliability metrics
for enterprise flash, and redefined server side flash has done it
all over again with the new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo."
.....
*) System level integration with the latest Fusion-io VSL 3.0 software
subsystem

Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of the Universe, Sep. 29, 2011

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"Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of
the Universe Announced by Authors from University of California,
New Mexico State University"
September 29, 2011
http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/News.html

"Two research articles describing the most accurate cosmological
simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of
the universe yet made" ... "The results calculated by the Bolshoi
simulation - spectacular visualizations of what the universe was
like at time steps 40 million or 80 million years apart - are
being made publicly available to the world’s astronomers and
astrophysicists..."

[san-tech][03394] Violin Memory: Violin 6000 Series & Violin 3220, Sep. 27, 2011

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:13:40 -0400
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2012/04/20
[san-tech][03534] Violin Memory vRAID Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:29:45 +0900
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Violin Memoryから新シリーズと新製品の発表がありました：

"VIOLIN MEMORY LAUNCHES POWERFUL NEW PRODUCTS FOR CIOs TO BUILD
THE ALL-SILICON DATA CENTER"
"Rack in a Box" Reliability and Consolidation Advantages Poised to
End the Reign of Mechanical Storage Arrays in the Data Center
September 27, 2011
http://www.violin-memory.com/news/press-releases/6000-2/

"... today introduced the Violin 6000 Series flash Memory Arrays,
the industry's first all-silicon storage systems with
the reliability, performance and economics to be deployed
as mission-critical primary storage."
.....
"Violin also unveiled the new Violin 3220, doubling the storage
capacity of the 3200 Series to 20 terabytes (TB) of SLC per
3U shelf."