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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

2012/12/05

[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

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."

2012/06/18

[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

[san-tech][03566] "Storage and Network Convergence Using FCoE and iSCSI"& "IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Blue Gene/Q System Administration", IBM Redbooks, 2012/06/13

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:52:53 +0900
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やっと以下の IBM Redbookが正式版となりました:

"Storage and Network Convergence Using FCoE and iSCSI"
 Published Date: 2012/06/13
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg247986.html
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247986.pdf

"IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Blue Gene/Q System Administration"
 Published Date: 2012/06/13
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg247869.html
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247869.pdf

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][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][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/

2012/05/03

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

Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 10:46:12 +0900
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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

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
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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。

2012/04/27

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

Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:37:52 +0900
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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
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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

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"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

2012/04/21

[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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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