[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][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

[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。

[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。

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

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900
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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
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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
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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 
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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

[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
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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/
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[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 
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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

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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

[san-tech][03305] GE Micro-holographic (500GB) 研究開発プレスリリース

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:42:10 +0900
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2012/04/17
[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems
  Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900 
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2011/08/16
"GE brings holographic storage back from the dead"
 Format might erupt in the sector
 8th August 2011, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/ge_and_inphase_holographic_storage/
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/ge_and_inphase_holographic_storage/page2.html
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GEで研究開発中の 500GB容量 Micro-holographicのプレスリリースです：

"GE Breakthrough in Micro-holographic Storage Technology Supports

 500-Gigabyte Disc at Blu-ray Speed"

 *)Higher recording speed paving the way to commercializing GE's

   technology

 *)GE's micro-holographic material can support on one disc the same

   storage capacity as 20 standard Blu-ray discs

 July 20, 2011

  http://www.genewscenter.com/Press-Releases/GE-Breakthrough-in-Micro-holographic-Storage-Technology-Supports-500-Gigabyte-Disc-at-Blu-ray-Speed-3245.aspx

[san-tech][03223] SNIA Spring 2011 Tutorials

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:06:02 +0900
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SNIA Spring 2011 Tutorialsが公開されています：

Spring 2011 Tutorials, SNIA Tutorials
  http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/2011/spring

[san-tech][02062] さよなら InPhase (？)

Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:39:47 +0900
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2012/04/17
[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems
  Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900 
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2011/06/13
The Registerの記事です：

"How I watched a holographic storage company implod"
 29th December 2010
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/29/inphase_insider_story/

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/29/inphase_insider_story/page2.html
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/29/inphase_insider_story/page3.html

  "It was a stony and hard road that holographic storage start-up
   InPhase travelled, going from hope to long, drawn-out despair.
   Its ambitions were left in tatters after senior management mis-steps
   and funding difficulties, but now the firm is allowing itself a little hope
   again."

InPhase Technologies Inc.
  http://www.inphase-technologies.com/ (アクセス可能です)

 ------------------------------------------------
"End of the road for InPhase?", 2/4/2010
  http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=20627

 "Some 60 employees picked up their final paychecks at InPhase
  Technologies on Tuesday, as the company has apparently shut down."

最後の一文
 "But the engineer who spoke with the Times-Call said he's heard
  that before. Still, he's a believer in the company’s product.

  "It’s a fantastic idea," he said. "Somebody will do it sometime.""

[san-tech][02309] EU CASPAR Project, (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval)

Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:38:03 +0900
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EUのデータ管理・保管・再活用 (？) プロジェクトです

CASPAR Digital Preservation User Community
  http://www.casparpreserves.eu/

CASPAR: Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation,
        Access and Retrieval
"How can digital data still be used and understood in the future
 when systems, software, and everyday knowledge continues to change?
 This is the CASPAR challenge."

[san-tech][02131] The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:06:11 +0900
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SDSCを中心とした Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation
から最終レポートが公開されていました：

"Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base
 Must be a Public Priority", 02.26.10
  http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR022610_blueribbon.html

最終レポート (116ページ)：
"Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet:
 Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information", February 2010
  http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR022610_blueribbon.html

すごい簡単な1枚用紙の要約？ 上記 URLから
  http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR022610_brtf_sidebar.pdf

[san-tech][02915] Re: "JFK Library opens largest online digitized presidential archive", January 13, 2011, Computerworld

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:19:03 +0900
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JFKとは直接関係ないですが、データ保存関連ということで：

"まるで酢こんぶ…マイクロフィルム資料劣化に悩む図書館"
 2011年1月22日
  http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0120/TKY201101200249.html
  http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0120/TKY201101200249_01.html
  http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0120/TKY201101200249_02.html

  "古い文書や画像を記録したマイクロフィルムの劣化が、各地で問題になって
   いる。酢のようなにおいを放ち、ワカメのようにゆがんでしまう
   「ビネガーシンドローム」。図書館などでは劣化を遅らせる工夫をしたり、
   新しいフィルムに複写したりするなど対応に追われている。"
....
  "　国際標準化機構（ＩＳＯ）は、期待寿命を１００年としている。しかし、
   その前に波打ってしまうフィルムがある。

   　主な原因は高温と多湿だ。高温・多湿状態に置かれたフィルムは、画像
   を記録するゼラチン層に接する「セルロースアセテート」が空気中の水分と
   反応して酢酸が発生し、フィルムの表面にべたつきが出て、波打ってしまう。
   そのまま放っておくと表面に白い粉が付き、再生できなくなる。

   　大手フィルムメーカーの富士フイルム（本社・東京）によると、同社が
   セルロースアセテートを材料にしたマイクロフィルムの販売を始めたのは
   １９５８年。しかし、８０年代後半にビネガーシンドロームが問題化し始め
   たため、９３年には劣化しにくいポリエステルに切り替えたという。"

[san-tech][02914] "JFK Library opens largest online digitized presidential archive", January 13, 2011, Computerworld

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:22:24 +0900
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2011/06/10
[san-tech][02915] Re: "JFK Library opens largest online digitized presidential archive", January 13, 2011, Computerworld
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今年 2011年は、John F. Kennedy大統領就任から 50周年となります
(就任式：1961年 1月 20日)。

John F. Kennedy Library Foundationは、それを記念して JFK関連資料を
デジタル化し公開を開始しました：

"Caroline Kennedy and David S. Ferriero Unveil Groundbreaking Online
 Archive of the Collection of President John F. Kennedy"
 January 13, 2011
  http://www.jfklibrary.org/~/link.aspx?_id=F61D72830EB04EEA85EFA41F2BABAEB4&_z=z

  "today unveiled the nation's largest online digitized presidential
   archive, providing unprecedented global access to the most important
   papers, records, photographs and recordings of President
   John F. Kennedy's thousand days in office."