[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

[san-tech][03607] Video-List: Storage Field Day 2, November 8-9, 2012

Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:36:39 +0900
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2012年 11月 8, 9日に開催された

Storage Field Day 2, November 8-9, 2012
  http://techfieldday.com/event/sfd2/

のビデオリストです：
Storage Field Day 2
 Stephen Foskett
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLObjX_zORJMCuZBuudq8aI5xLiJ2sdozH

31 Videos

[san-tech][03606] Video-List: Next-Generation Storage Symposium, November 7, 2012

Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:36:07 +0900
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2012年 11月 7日に開催された

Next-Generation Storage Symposium, November 7, 2012
  http://techfieldday.com/event/ngss1/

のビデオリストです：

Next-Generation Storage Symposium
 Stephen Foskett
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLObjX_zORJMApvDvmHn__nKhWBAJQSAJZ

12 Videos

[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

[san-tech][03604] HP: Industry-first Innovations for its Converged Storage Portfolio, December 03, 2012

Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:03:43 +0900
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2012年 12月 3日(ドイツ時間) HPより発表された新ストレージラインのリンクを
まとめてみました。

"HP Redefines Storage Simplicity with Single Architecture for Enterprises of All Sizes"
 Most significant set of new storage platforms in over a decade
 December 03, 2012
  http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1332554

  "HP today announced industry-first innovations for its Converged Storage
   portfolio that break through complexities and inefficiencies with
   a single architecture for all sizes of client deployments.

   Designed for virtualized, cloud and big data retention environments,
   these solutions include new HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP StoreAll Storage
   and HP StoreOnce Backup product offerings."

[san-tech][03587] Dell Ventures Announces $60 Million Early Stage Storage Investment Fund

Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:40:14 +0900
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Dellの投資部門会社の Dell Venturesが、ストレージスタートアップ企業に
総額 $60 Millionの投資計画をアナウンスしました。
※ 5～10社に ラウンドあたり $3-5M。

Dell Venturesからのプレスリリースはありませんが、

"Dell Is Fueling the Next Big Thing in Innovation -
 Dell Ventures Announces Early Stage Storage Investment Fund"
 17 Jul 2012, Jim Lussier, The Official Dell Corporate Blog
  http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2012/07/17/dell-is-fueling-the-next-big-thing-in-innovation-dell-ventures-announces-early-stage-storage-investment-fund.aspx
.....
  "While on stage at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference today,
   Michael Dell announced a $60M early stage investment fund,
   the Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund. We have set our sights on investing
   in five to ten promising storage startups. We plan to obtain equity
   positions in these innovative companies, with average investments of
   $3-5 million per round."
.....
  "Our storage investments will align to the Dell Fluid Data architecture
   strategy with the end game of bringing more affordable and easier
   to manage storage solutions to more of the market."

[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

[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][03577] Slide/Video: Velocity 2012 - O'Reilly Conferences (2012/06/25 -27)

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:21:30 +0900
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2012年 6月 25日～27日に開催された

O'Reilly Velocity 2012
Web Performance & Operations Conference, June 25 - 27, 2012
  http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/

の Slide/Videoが公開されています：
Velocity 2012 Speaker Slides & Video
  http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/public/schedule/proceedings
*)Web Performance
*)Operations
*)Velocity Culture
*)Mobile Performance
*)Sponsored

Velocity 2012 Schedule
  http://velocityconf.com/velocity2012/public/schedule/grid/public-grid


YouTube List:
Velocity US 2012, O'Reilly
  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL80D9129677893FD8
O'Reilly Channel
  http://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia

[san-tech][03572] Slide: 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBossWord (June 26-29, 2012)

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:16:48 +0900
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2012年 6月 26日～29日に開催された

2012 Red Hat Summit and JBossWord, June 26-29, 2012
  http://www.redhat.com/summit/
Agenda
  http://www.redhat.com/summit/agenda/

の Slideが公開されています：
Presentations
  http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/presentations/

[san-tech][03569] Re:”1平方インチあたり5テラビットとなるHDDの要素技術を開発”, NEDO & 東北大学

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:08:54 +0900
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平成 24年 5月 29日に開催された、文部科学省　情報科学委員会 (第 76回) での
本プロジェクト関連配付資料が公開されました (6月 22日)


情報科学技術委員会（第76回）　配付資料
  http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/006/shiryo/1322302.htm

配付資料
資料2　「高機能・超低消費電力コンピューティングのためのデバイス・システム基盤」最終成果報告
プロジェクトリーダー
村岡裕明・大野英男、東北大学電気通信研究所
  http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/006/shiryo/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/06/20/1322302_02.pdf

[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][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。

[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

[san-tech][03564] "Open-Silicon Announces Industry’s First Hybrid Memory Cube Controller IP", June 4, 2012

Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:39:56 +0900
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) に関して Micron Technology, Inc.と提携した
Open-Silicon, Inc.からのプレスリリースです：

"Open-Silicon Announces Industry’s First Hybrid Memory Cube Controller IP"
 Enabling Next-Generation Memory System Design for High-Performance Computing,
 Networking and Test & Measurement Applications
 June 4, 2012
  http://www.open-silicon.com/company/news-events/press-releases/open-silicon-announces-industry%E2%80%99s-first-hybrid-memory-cube-controller-ip/

  "... announced today the industry's first Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) controller
   IP core - the industry's highest-performance and most flexible solution
   for integrating the many benefits of HMC technology into next-generation
   systems. ..."

[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][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][03559] "Virident FlashMAX versus Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70", Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Feb 2012

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:12:45 +0900
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2012年 2月に公開された、Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) の
テクニカルレポートです：

"Virident FlashMAX versus Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70"
 February 14th, 2012
  http://user.cscs.ch/news/2012/02/14/virident-flashmax-versus-texas-memory-systems-ramsan-70/

"Comparison of PCIe SLC Flash cards - Virident FlashMAX and Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70"
 Hussein N. El-Harake and Thomas Schoenemeyer
 Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Manno, Switzerland
 February 2012
  http://www.cscs.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/cscs/Tech_Reports/Performance_Analysis_of_SSD_feb_2012_CSCS.pdf
※最新版ドライバでの追試公開は未だのようです。

[san-tech][03557] "EMC Acquires IT Performance Management Leader Watch4net", May 31, 2012

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:33:17 +0900
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EMCのお買い物：

"EMC Acquires IT Performance Management Leader Watch4net"
 Combined Solution Enables Management of Performance and Availability
 Across Physical and Virtual Infrastructures
 May 31, 2012
  http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120531-01.htm

News Summary:
  "EMC acquires performance management software expert Watch4Net Solutions
   Inc in an all-cash transaction."
  .....

Full Story:
  "... Watch4net, a privately-held provider of enterprise and carrier-class
   performance management software that provides real-time, historical
   and projected visibility into network, data center and cloud infrastructure
   performance. ...."