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2011/07/30

[san-tech][03313] Hortonworks (Re: Yahoo、Hadoop部隊を Spin Outへ)

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:20:25 +0900
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[san-tech][03234] Yahoo、Hadoop部隊を Spin Outへ
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:37:13 +0900
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すっかりフォローを忘れていて、既にご存じの方も多いと思いますが、

"Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital to Form Hortonworks to Increase Investment
in Hadoop Technology and Accelerate Innovation and Adoption"

Independent Company Dedicated to Working with Apache Hadoop Community
to Architect the Future of Big Data
June 28, 2011
http://www.hortonworks.com/about-us/news/

"Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Benchmark Capital today announced
the formation of Hortonworks, an independent company consisting of
key architects and core contributors to the open source Apache Hadoop
technology pioneered by Yahoo!."

[san-tech][03312] YouTube: Hadoop Summit 2011, June 29, 2011

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:49:29 +0900
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2011年 6月 29日に開催された

Hadoop Summit 2011

http://developer.yahoo.com/events/hadoopsummit2011/

のスライド入り講演ビデオ (Summit videos with embeded presentations) が

公開されています。少しづつ追加されているようです。現在 16編、午前の講演

はアップ済み。

[san-tech][03311] OCZ Technology: Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0 Release, July 26, 2011

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:40:27 +0900
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また OCZ Technologyのプレスリリースですが、

"OCZ Talos SAS Solid State Drives Now Available With Virtualized Controller

Architecture 2.0"

VCA 2.0 Now Implemented in OCZ SAS SSD Products Optimizing Talos for

Enterprise Workloads

July 26, 2011

http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/443

"... today released a refresh of the Talos Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

6Gb/s SSDs with OCZ's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture

(VCA) 2.0. Designed for enterprise applications with mixed workloads,

the Talos Series with VCA 2.0 delivers even greater performance for

SAS-based storage infrastructures."

OCZ TALOS C SERIES 3.5" SAS SSD

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-talos-c-series-3-5-sas-ssd.html

[san-tech][03310] "Second-Gen SandForce: Seven 120 GB SSDs Rounded Up", July 25, 2011, Tom's Hardware

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:14:47 +0900
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SandForceの 2nd Generation Controller (SF-2500/ 2600) を採用した、
外付け SSDのベンチマークです：

SF-2500/2600
http://www.sandforce.com/index.php?id=133
http://www.sandforce.com/userfiles/file/downloads/SandForce_2500-2600ENT_PB_110616.pdf
SandForce
http://www.sandforce.com/

"Second-Gen SandForce: Seven 120 GB SSDs Rounded Up"
July 25, 2011, Tom's Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sf-2200-sandforce-ssd,2987.html

"Five SSD vendors sent us seven 120 GB models based on the second-gen
logic. What makes them different? An extensive benchmark suite tells all."

[san-tech][03309] OCZ Technology: the First ASIC-Based Controller to Enable Triple-Level Cell NAND Flash (1TB Maximum), July 20, 2011

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:08:32 +0900
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SSDメーカーの OCZ Technologyからコントローラの発表です (後で紹介する
ように、2011年 3月 14日に買収した会社の製品です。プレスリリースも両社
から出ています)。

"OCZ Technology Unveils Indilinx Everest Series Solid State Drive Controller"
Next Generation SATA 6Gbps SSD Platform Allows up to 1TB of Storage per
Controller and is the First ASIC-Based Controller to Enable State-of-the-Art
Triple-Level Cell NAND Flash
July 20, 2011
http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/441
http://www.indilinx.com/news/news_view.asp?seq=38

2011/07/29

[san-tech][02791] Slide: 2010 Data Center Efficiency Summit (2010/10/14)

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:04:41 +0900
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2010年 10月 14日に開催された

Data Center Efficiency Summit

http://dcee.svlg.org/

2010 Agenda and Presentations

http://dcee.svlg.org/2010-agenda-and-presentations.html

の講演資料が上記サイトで公開されています。

[san-tech][02347] "On the Design of a Deep Computing Service Cloud", IBM Technical Report, (2010/05/07)

Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:19:26 +0900
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IBMの Technical Reportです：

"On the Design of a Deep Computing Service Cloud"

RC24991 (W1005--53) May 7, 2010

Zon-Yin Shae, Hani Jamjoom, Huiming Qu, Mark Podlaseck, Yaoping Ruan,

Anshul Sheopuri. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/1e4115aea78b6e7c85256b360066f0d4/f236cb47ba3a98e5852577270057eeea

"This paper presents a detailed view of a system called Deep Cloud,

which enables the offering of High Performance Computing (HPC)

capabilities as a service, and the design decisions and architectural

considerations involved in building such a system. Our system straddles

traditional Grid computing and emerging Infrastructure-as-a-service

(IaaS) systems." .....

2011/07/28

[san-tech][03308] 2012 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems：日立電子サービス株式会社　代表取締役　社長執行役員　髙橋直也博士

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:27:00 +0900
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日立電子サービス株式会社　代表取締役　社長執行役員　髙橋直也博士が

2012 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systemsを受賞されました。

"日立電子サービス社長の髙橋直也が「IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information

Storage Systems Award」を受賞"

2011年7月27日

http://www.hitachi-densa.co.jp/news/2011/20110727.html

http://www.hitachi-densa.co.jp/news/pdf/20110727.pdf

[san-tech][03307] GlusterFS OpenStack対応へ, July 27, 2011

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:38:37 +0900
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GlusterFSが OpenStackに対応します：

"GLUSTER EXPANDS STORAGE OPTIONS FOR OPENSTACK DEPLOYMENTS"

Provides alternate VM storage options and first scale-out unified file

and object storage solution for OpenStack deployments

July 27, 2011

http://www.gluster.com/2011/07/27/gluster-expands-storage-options-for-openstack-deployments/

"Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage

solutions, today announced the Gluster Connector for OpenStack

which provides highly scalable and highly-available VM storage

functionality for OpenStack, an emerging open source cloud platform.

With last week's announcement of GlusterFS 3.3, OpenStack users will

be able to add scale-out integrated file and object storage to any

deployment. These two capabilities together enable OpenStack users

to centralize on one storage solution for VMs, Object and file data

simplifying their storage environment."

2011/07/27

[san-tech][03306] The new location-based data capabilities from SAP and Google, July 27, 2011

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:53:34 +0900
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SAPと Google Mapが連携するそうです：

"SAP and Google Team to Put "Big Data" on the Map"

July 27, 2011

http://www.sap.com/index.epx#/news-reader/index.epx?articleID=17358

"SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it is building on its

collaboration with Google to help customers manage large data volumes

in intuitive, visual displays and facilitate faster, more-informed

decisions. SAP plans to enhance its business analytics software with

location-based data capabilities, allowing people to interact with

real-time information via Google Maps." .....

[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][03304] YouTube: Microsoft GFS Datacenter Tour, 2011/07/24

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:00:54 +0900
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Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS) Data Center紹介ビデオです：

"Microsoft GFS Datacenter Tour"

2011/07/24, MSGFSTeam, 10:17, 720p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxA1l1pQIw

※コンテナが沢山

※アジアのデータセンター網の紹介がありませんね・・・

[san-tech][03303] NetLogic: New Multi-Core Processor into Network Storage Market, July 25, 2011

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:15:51 +0900
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NetLogicから、新しい SAN/NAS用コントローラのプレスリリースです：

"NetLogic Microsystems Expands Industry-Leading XLP Multi-Core Processor

into Network Storage Market"

Flagship XLP multi-core processor family leverages breakthrough

architecture with quad-issue, quad-threaded, out-of-order execution

and storage hardware acceleration to deliver the highest performance

for next-generation data center/enterprise/SMB SAN and NAS systems

July 25, 2011

http://www.netlogicmicro.com/News/pr/2011/11-07-25XLPStorage.asp

2011/07/26

[san-tech][03301] LSI First to Sample 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip, July 25, 2011

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:28:23 +0900
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LSI社が、12Gb/s SAS対応 RAID-on-Chip (ROC) のサンプル出荷を開始しました：

"LSI First to Sample 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip, Controller and Expander

ICs to Server and External Storage OEMs"

Technology demonstrations for OEM customers break the million IOPS

performance barrier with a single 8-port RAID-on-Chip IC

July 25, 2011

http://www.lsi.com/about/newsroom/Pages/20110725pr.aspx

"... today announced the industry's first sample shipments of

12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), controller and expander ICs to server

and external storage OEMs, underscoring LSI leadership in the SAS

market segment. By providing customers with early samples of 12Gb/s

SAS silicon, LSI is delivering a key technology milestone and laying

the foundation for the anticipated SCSI Trade Association 12Gb/s SAS

Plugfest in mid-2012."

"Technology demonstrations for OEM customers showcase performance of

over 1 million IOPS with a single 8-port 12Gb/s SAS ROC running small

block sequential reads/writes in a direct connect configuration to

eight hard disk drives."

[san-tech][03300] Facebookが Tilera (TilePro64 many-cored processors) での Memcachedを報告、(IGCC'10)

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:19:55 +0900
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Facebookが Tilera (TilePro64 many-cored processors) での Memcachedテストを、

The First International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'10) July 25-28, 2011

で発表しました

"Tilera routs Intel, AMD in Facebook bakeoff"

Social Memcached marketing

25th July 2011, The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/25/facebook_tilera_x64_benchmark/

.....

"Facebook's Memcached performance paper, being presented at the

International Green Computing Conference in Orlando, Florida, details

how Facebook tested the mettle (surely metal?) of the current

generation of TilePro64 many-cored processors against off-the-shelf

servers using Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors."

.....

"Facebook did its Memcached tests on the Quanta QS2 rack server - also

known as the QSSC-X5-2Q - which crams 512 cores across eight processors

in a 2U rack-mounted chassis."

2011/07/22

[san-tech][03297] Slide (Google Docs): SciDAC 2011 (2011/07/10 - 14)

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:13:04 +0900
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2011年 7月 10日～14日に開催された

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) 2011

http://events.cels.anl.gov/scidac11/

の講演資料がほぼ公開されています (先週に比べてかなり増えています)。

Agenda

http://events.cels.anl.gov/scidac11/agenda-2/

ただし、PDF直公開ではなく Google Docs経由での公開となっています。

[san-tech][03296] Violin Memoryをメタデータに使用して、"GPFS Scans 10 Billion Files in 43 Minutes", July 22, 2011

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:47:47 +0900
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IBM GPFS (General Parallel File System) のメタデータに Violin Memoryを

使用したら、ファイルスキャンが 2007年の報告比べて 37倍になったとの報告

です：

"Violin Memory Breaks Existing General Parallel File System World

Record By 37 Times Using IBM Research Storage Technology"

Violin's Flash Memory Arrays Enable IBM's GPFS to Scan 10 Billion Files

in 43 Minutes, Setting a New Standard for Big Data Applications

July 22, 2011

http://www.violin-memory.com/news/press-releases/violin-memory-breaks-existing-general-parallel-file-system-world-record-by-37-times-using-ibm-research-storage-technology/

"... today announced that IBM Research used Violin Memory's 3200

Flash Memory Arrays to break IBM’s previous General Parallel File

System (GPFS) world record. Leveraging Violin's technology, IBM's

GPFS scanned 10 billion files in 43 minutes, 37 times faster than

the previous record of one billion files in three hours."

"scanned" が 37倍です。今回の試験では実データへのアクセスはありません。

[san-tech][03294] 135TB: $7,384のストレージシステム (Re: 約 $100/TBのストレージシステム)

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:00:10 +0900
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二年弱で

67TB: $7,867 (September 1, 2009)

が

135TB: $7,384 (July 20, 2011)

になりました。もちろん専用ケース、ファン (6個) 込みです。

[san-tech][03291] NEC (ドイツ？) Netlist HyperCloud Memory Module認定

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:07:10 +0900
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NEC (ドイツだけかもしれませんが)、Netlistの HyperCloud Memory Moduleを

認定しました：

"NEC Qualifies Netlist's HyperCloud Memory"

HyperCloud memory available to NEC LX Series high performance computing

customers"

July 20, 2011

http://www.netlist.com/investors/investors.html

http://www.b2i.us/profiles/investor/NewsPDF.asp?b=1941&ID=46255&m=rl

※↑PDF

"... today announced that its HyperCloud? Memory module is qualified

and available from NEC in the compute server of the LX Series. NEC's

LX Series is a market leading scalable compute cluster resource and

is delivered as a complete turnkey solution to the customer."

[san-tech][03292] "日本のデータセンターにおけるエネルギー効率化の取組み事例"、2011年7月19日、グリーン・グリッド日本支部

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:52:27 +0900
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グリーン・グリッド日本支部からのホワイトペーパーです。

プレスリリース：

"グリーン・グリッド日本支部編集のホワイトペーパー

「日本のデータセンターのエネルギー効率化の取り組み事例」を発行

日本企業の顕著な改善活動を国内外に広く紹介し、データセンターでの

省エネ活動を支援"

2011年7月19日、グリーン・グリッド（The Green Grid）日本支部

http://www.thegreengrid.org/~/media/Press%20Releases/Japan/20110719_JapanCSWP_JP_Final.pdf

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