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

2012/03/05

[san-tech][03463] Intel i7-2700K/i7-3960X (5.0GHz/4.8GHz) Liquid Nitrogen Overclocled Rack-Mounted System

Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:20:05 +0900
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Intel i7-2700K/i7-3960Xを液化窒素冷却で 5GHz/4.8GHz稼働させるラック搭載
サーバが発表されました:

"The High Speed Server Module"
 5.0 GHz speed, 3.5 inches tall!
 March 5, 2012
  http://www.liquidnitrogenoverclocking.com/news_18.shtml

  "Introducing: the biggest change to The Cloud since sunshine! Meet
   the High Speed Server Module, invented by Liquid Nitrogen Overclocking.
   Only 2U in height, but capable of delivering 5.0 GHz speed on the i7-2700K
   chip, the HSSM series will change the face of cloud computing."

2012/03/03

[san-tech][03462] NFSv4.2, The Register (29th Feb 2012) & Connectathon 2012

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:51:17 +0900
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今年 (2021年) 3月の承認を目指している NFSv4.2の紹介記事です:

"From server to end user: What's coming up for NFS?"
 Big changes: Hole-punching and application data blocks
 29th February, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/snia_what_next_nfs/
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/snia_what_next_nfs/page2.html
.....
  "... The latest proposals for NFSv4.2 promise many features that
   end users have been requesting above and beyond those in NFSv4.1
   - features that make NFS more relevant as not only an "everyday"
   protocol, but one that has application as a preferred distributed
   file protocol in and beyond the virtualised data centre."

[san-tech][03461] Slide: Connectathon 2012 (20th - 24th February 2012)

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:49:18 +0900
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2012年 2月 20日 ~ 24日に開催された、NFS技術集会

Connectathon, February 20th thru February 24th, 2012
  http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+nfs/Connectathon+2012
の発表資料が公開されています:

Connectathon-details
  http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+nfs/Connectathon-details

[san-tech][03460] DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR) Quest) Challenge

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:04:28 +0900
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DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) 懸賞金チャレンジです:

DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes
(CLIQR) Quest) Challenge
  https://www.cliqrquest.com/Default.aspx

".. DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response
 codes (CLIQR) Quest), a prize-based challenge that seeks to advance
 the understanding of social media and the Internet, and explore
 the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely
 communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required
 to solve broad scope, time-critical problems."

2012/03/02

[san-tech][03458] "Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud": CERN, EMBL, ESA and Commercial partners, 01.03.2012

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:58:47 +0900
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欧州 3研究機関と産業界のクラウドコンソーシアムがアナウンスされました:

"Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing"
 01.03.2012
  http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR03.12E.html
  http://www.embl.de/aboutus/communication_outreach/media_relations/2012/120301_Heidelberg/index.html
  http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM5725Y1ZG_index_0.html

  "Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe's
   biggest research centres (CERN, EMBL and ESA) announced a partnership
   to launch a European cloud computing platform. "Helix Nebula -
   the Science Cloud", will support the massive IT requirements of
   European scientists, and become available to governmental
   organisations and industry after an initial pilot phase."

[san-tech][03457] "Luxtera and STMicroelectronics to Enable High-Volume Silicon Photonics Solutions", March 1, 2012

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:12:20 +0900
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Luxtera関係でまたプレスリリースです:

"Luxtera and STMicroelectronics to Enable High-Volume Silicon Photonics Solutions"
 Collaboration between two leading companies will bring silicon photonics into mainstream markets
 March 1, 2012
  http://www.luxtera.com/20120301254/luxtera-and-stmicroelectronics-to-enable-high-volume-silicon-photonics-solutions.html
  http://www.st.com/internet/com/press_release/t3279.jsp

2012/03/01

[san-tech][03456] "将来のネットワークの省電力化へ前進", 2012年3月1日, NEDO等

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:50:48 +0900
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NEDO等によるプレスリリースです:

"将来のネットワークの省電力化へ前進"
 ―「次世代高効率ネットワークデバイス技術プロジェクト」で省電力技術を実現―
 2012年3月1日
 独立行政法人新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構 (NEDO) 等
  http://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_100096.html

" NEDOが、2007年度から実施してきた「次世代高効率ネットワークデバイス
 技術開発プロジェクト」が今年度で終了、以下の成果を達成しました。

 1) 空冷動作する超小型100Gbps光トランシーバーを世界で初めて開発し、
    回路基板間の100Gbps接続を実現。
 2) 高速低電力の160Gbps光LAN-SANシステムを構築することにより、
    2チャンネルの非圧縮スーパーハイビジョン信号の配信実験に世界で
    初めて成功。"

[san-tech][03455] "Intel, Micron Update NAND Flash Memory Joint Venture", Feb. 28, 2012

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:28:51 +0900
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2012/03/03

"Intel cashes in its chips with Micron, bets on post-flash riches"
 2nd March 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/intel_iicron_imtf_rejig/
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Intel、Micronから NAND Flashジョイントベンチャーに関するプレスリリースです:

"Intel, Micron Update NAND Flash Memory Joint Venture"
 Companies Expand Successful NAND Flash Memory Joint Development
 Program to Include Development of Emerging Memory Technologies
 Feb. 28, 2012
  http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/02/27/intel-micron-update-nand-flash-memory-joint-venture
  http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=652241

[san-tech][03453] "Cray's YarcData Division Launches New Big Data Graph Appliance", Feb 29, 2012

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:57:40 +0900
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2021/03/03

"Cray Parlays Supercomputing Technology Into Big Data Appliance"
 March 01, 2012, HPCwire
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-03-01/cray_parlays_supercomputing_technology_into_big_data_appliance.html

"Cray gets graphic with big data"
 ThreadStorm appliance cries 'Urika!'
 1st March 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/cray_urika_big_data_appliance/
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Crayから Big Data Graph Appliance (実際はラック) が発表されました:

"Cray's YarcData Division Launches New Big Data Graph Appliance"
 Feb 29, 2012
  http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1667153

  "... dedicated to providing "Big Data" solutions for enterprise
   customers, today announced the launch of the YarcData uRiKA
   graph appliance -- a purpose-built solution for Big Data relationship
   analytics -- at the 2012 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California."

※2012 Strata Conferenceでの Premier Exhibitorsはこのため?

[san-tech][03452] Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:07:05 +0900
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Stanford大学で以下の大学院レベルのオンラインコースを開講しています:

Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate
  http://scpd.stanford.edu/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=10555807&selectedProgramAreaId=11221

Description
.....
"With the Mining Massive Data Sets graduate certificate, you will
 master efficient, powerful techniques and algorithms for extracting
 information from large datasets such as the web, social-network
 graphs, and large document repositories. Take your career to
 the next level with skills that will give your company the power
 to gain a competitive advantage."

2012/02/29

[san-tech][03449] Luxteraに東京エレクトロンが出資、February 27, 2012

Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:08:05 +0900
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マニアックなネタですが、Luxteraに東京エレクトロンが出資しました:

"Luxtera Closes $21.7 Million of Financing and Adds Former Broadcom
 Executive Martin Colombatto to Board of Directors"
 Luxtera raises capital to support expansion and brings high growth
 semiconductor industry veteran to its board
 February 27, 2012
  http://www.luxtera.com/20120227253/luxtera-closes-$21.7-million-of-financing-and-adds-former-broadcom-executive-martin-colombatto-to-board-of-directors.html

[san-tech][03447] ”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”, 2012年2月29日, NEDO & 東北大学

Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:22:23 +0900
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2012/06/22
[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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2012/03/22
"NEDOら、5Tbit/平方インチのHDD基礎技術を開発"
 2012年 3月 12日, PC Watch
  http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20120312_518241.html

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"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"
 ―ストレージの大幅省エネ化可能に―
 2012年2月29日
 独立行政法人新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構 (NEDO)
 国立大学法人東北大学
  http://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_100095.html?from=nedomail

  " NEDOのグリーンITプロジェクトと文部科学省のプロジェクトの成果として、
   1平方インチ当たり5テラビットの超高密度記録ハードディスクドライブ
  (HDD)システムの実現の道をひらく要素技術の検証に成功しました。これ
   によりHDDの記憶容量を現在の約8倍に高めることが出来、プロジェクトの
   目標である1/50以下の大幅な単位容量あたりストレージの省電力化も達成
   可能となりました。"
.....
  " なお、NEDOと東北大学は3月12日、中央大学駿河台記念館でプロジェクトの
   合同成果報告会を開催、この技術の詳細を発表する予定です。なお、NEDOと
   東北大学は3月12日、中央大学駿河台記念館でプロジェクトの合同成果報告会を
   開催、この技術の詳細を発表する予定です。"

[san-tech][03446] TMS 24-TB Usable, eMLC, 1U Flash & Kaminario Introduces DataProtect

Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:15 +0900
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Texas Memory Systemsのプレスリリースです (後半に Kaminario):

"TMS unveils the Ultimate Application Accelerator with HA RamSan-820
 (24-TB Usable, eMLC, 1U) Flash storage appliance and details about
 RamSan-OS
 With 24 TB of usable HA storage in only 1U, the RamSan-820 is
 the densest Flash storage you can buy.
 February 28, 20122
  http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/154

[san-tech][03443] "Big Data investment map", 27. February 2012, Beautiful Data

Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:07:25 +0900
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興味深いグラフです:

"Big Data investment map"
 27. February 2012, Beautiful Data"
  http://beautifuldata.net/2012/02/big-data-investment-map/
  http://beautifuldata.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BigDataVentures.png

  "While getting ready for the Strata Conference in Santa Clara,
   I prepared a network map showing the most important companies
   represented at the conference and their connections via venture
   capital or investment firms ..."

2012/02/28

[san-tech][03441] Slide: Ethernet Technology Summit 2012 (Feb. 21 - 23, 2012)

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:51:03 +0900
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2012年 2月 21日~23日に開催された:

Ethernet Technology Summit 2012, Feb. 21 - 23, 2012
  http://www.ethernetsummit.com/
の講演資料が公開されています。


Get the Ethernet Technology Summit Proceedings
  http://www.ethernetsummit.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/Array_Pages/Entrance_Proceedings.html
にメールアドレスを登録すると、ダウンロードページに移動します。

Program At-a-Glance
  http://www.ethernetsummit.com/English/Conference/Program.html

[san-tech][03437] Paper/Slide/Video: USENIX FAST '12 (Feb 14-17, 2012)

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:13:30 +0900
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2012年 2月 14日~17日に開催された

10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12)
 February 14 - 17, 2012
  http://static.usenix.org/events/fast12/

のペーパー、スライド、ビデオが公開されています:

[san-tech][03432] International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors 2011版公開

Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:35:53 +0900
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去年 (2011) 末だと思いますが、
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) 2011 Edition
が公開されました:

ITRS 2011 Edition
  http://www.itrs.net/Links/2011ITRS/Home2011.htm


ITRS Winter Public Conference Presentations, 14 December 2011
の講演資料も公開されています:
  http://www.itrs.net/Links/2011Winter/PublicPresentations.html

[san-tech][03431] Mac OS X用 ZFS製品

Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:23:39 +0900
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Mac OS X用 ZFS製品が出荷されました。
開発会社からのプレスリリースはないようなので、紹介記事から

"Ex-Apple engineer emits Zevo ZFS for Mac OS"
 1st February 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/01/zevo_zfs/

2012/01/25

[san-tech][03411] 2012/01/25:京速コンピュータ「京」と創薬・医療の産学連携セミナー

Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:27:20 +0900
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 2012年 1月 25日(水) に以下のセミナーが開催されます:

第 2回 京速コンピュータ「京」と創薬・医療の産学連携セミナー
‐HPCI計算生命科学推進プログラム‐

日 時:2012年 1月 25日 13:30-17:40
場 所:東京国際フォーラム
参加費:無料 (事前登録)
主 催:大阪大学大学院基礎研究科
(HPCI戦略プログラム分野1「予測する生命科学・医療および創薬基盤」教育プログラム)
詳 細:http://www.biogrid.jp/pdf/bunya1-2.pdf

2012/01/12

[Slides/Papers]: Panasas, Object-Based Storage Device, Cray DVS, Berkeley RAID, Sprite OS Project (Log-Structured File Systems), InCast and etc.

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2012/10/09
Gold Sponsorship session (Panasas)
 Chris Weeden, Panasas
 HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, September 13th, 2012
  http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/Spain-Workshop/pres/8_Panasas.pdf

HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, September 13th, 2012
Agenda
  http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/Spain-Workshop/agenda.php


"Intelligent Application of SSDs to Accelerate HPC Workloads"
 October 01, 2012
 HPCwire, Sponsored Content by Panasas
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-10-01/intelligent_application_of_ssds_to_accelerate_hpc_workloads.html


Webinars, Panasas
"SSD-Accelerated Scale-out NAS"
 Geoffrey Noer, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Panasas
  http://www.panasas.com/news/webinars

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2012/09/30
"Panasas Unveils New Storage Appliance with SSD Acceleration"
 September 17, 2012, Michael Feldman, HPCwire
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-09-17/panasas_unveils_new_storage_applicance_with_ssd_acceleration.html

  ActiveStor 14:  (2x4TB HDD + 120GB SSD +  8GB cache) x 10 : $125K
  ActiveStor 14:  (2x4TB HDD + 300GB SSD +  8GB cache) x 10 : $145K
  ActiveStor 14T: (2x2TB HDD + 480GB SSD + 16GB cache) x 10 : $160K
  *) + One Director Blade

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2012/09/18
"Panasas Introduces ActiveStor 14"
 SSD-Accelerated Scale-out NAS Appliance Delivers Extreme Bandwidth and
 Small File Performance for Big Data Workloads
 Sept. 17, 2012
  http://www.panasas.com/news/press-releases/panasas-introduces-activestor-14

ActiveStor 14
  http://www.panasas.com/products/activestor-14
ActiveStor 14 Accelerated by SSD Technology
  http://www.panasas.com/products/activestor-14/ssd-technology
New in PanFS 5
  http://www.panasas.com/products/panfs/new-panfs-5


"The Benefits of Object RAID"
 September 14, 2011, Brent Welch, CTO, Blog
  http://panasas.com/blog/benefits-of-object-RAID

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2012/03/30
"Faster Memory, Faster Compute"
 Structure: Data 2012, March 22, 2012, 2:50 PM
  http://event.gigaom.com/structuredata/schedule/
 Moderated by: Rich Brueckner - President, inside-BigData
 Speakers:
    Gary Grider - Deputy Division Leader, HPC Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Garth Gibson - Co-Founder and CTO, Panasa

"Another big obstacle to exascale computing: resilience"
 

Resilience: Another Big Obstacle to Exascale Computing


"Video: HPC Panel at Structure: Data"
 03.28.2012, insideHPC
  http://insidehpc.com/2012/03/28/video-hpc-panel-at-structure-data/

Structure: Data 2012, March 21 -22, 2012
  http://event.gigaom.com/structuredata/

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"Future Forms of Solid State Technology"
 March 26, 2012, Panasas Blog
  http://www.panasas.com/blog/solid-state-future
"Garth Gibson on Future Forms of Solid State Technology"
 2012/03/14,
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIPDgzeilo

"Panasas kingpin: What's the solid state state of play?"
 Garth Gibson on HPC - buffering the brute-force burst
 29th March 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/panasas_on_ssd/

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2012/01/12
There are some useful URLs for the following topics:

Panasas Parallel File System (2004, 07, 08)
Panasas System & pNFS (2011)
Cray DVS (Data Virtualization Service) & Panasas
Object-Based Storage Device
Berkeley RAID
Sprite OS Project (Log-Structured File Systems)
InCast
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