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

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
Personal Web Page

2011/12/22

[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
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2012/04/10
[san-tech][03516] "Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration", April 9, 2012
  Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:34:42 +0900
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ちょっとした驚きです。

"Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
 December 21, 2011
  http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html

2011/12/21

[san-tech][03428] Slide: 5th Extremely Large Databases Conference (2011/10/18, 19)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:29 +0900
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2011年 10月 18、19日に開催された

5th Extremely Large Databases Conference
 October 18-19, 2011
  http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2011/

の講演資料が公開されています。

[san-tech][03427] Re: International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:27:31 +0900
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[san-tech][03425] International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, 
Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)
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LTO Generation 8 (最大 32TB) までのロードマップの発表が 2010年 4月 14日
なので、128TBの出荷は・・・

"LTO Program Extends Product Roadmap Through Generation 8"
 April 14, 2010
  http://ultrium.com/pdf/LTO%20Roadmap%20Extension%20041410.pdf

LTO Roadmap
  http://ultrium.com/technology/roadmap.html
  http://ultrium.com/technology/LTO_8GenChart_2011.jpg

[san-tech][03425] International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:31:52 +0900
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 Information Storage Industry Consortiumから、2011年 11月 30日に

International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap
Part I: Applications & Systems (60p)
 NOVEMBER 2011
  http://www.insic.org/news/A&S%20Roadmap.pdf

が公開されました。

[san-tech][03424] Slide: 22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:25:09 +0900
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2011年 11月 29, 30日に開催された

22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop
 29-30 November 2011
  http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/disco/mew22/index.html

の講演資料が公開されています (一部非公開)。

2011/12/16

[san-tech][03423] "NILFS 2.0.22 was released", Jun 19, 2011 JST.

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:29:38 +0900
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国産 (?) Log Structured File System: NILFSも継続してますね:

NILFS
  http://www.nilfs.org/ja/index.html
  http://www.nilfs.org/en/index.html

[san-tech][03422] PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version 2.1, 2011-10-13

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:02:37 +0900
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[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13
  Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
> "Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
>  December 21, 2011
>   http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html
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ちょっとマニアックかもしれませんが、PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System
の開発が進行しています:

PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications
  http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/
"PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications"
 John Bent, Garth Gibson, Gary Grider, Ben McClelland,
 Paul Nowoczynski, James Nunez, Milo Polte, Meghan Wingate
 SC '09
  http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/plfs.pdf

2011/12/11

[san-tech][03421] Research Note: Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:11:39 +0900
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こちらも Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) ワークショップです。
Research Noteが公開されています:

2nd International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance
Computer Systems (PMBS11), November 13th 2011
  http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~sdh/pmbs11/PMBS11/Workshop_Schedule.html

[san-tech][03420] Paper: 1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases at SC '11(2011/11/18)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:58:04 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていたこちらのワークショップの
ペーパーが公開されています:

1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases
 November 18, 2011
  http://hpcdb.org/program

[san-tech][03419] "2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments", ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:01 +0900
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ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc.) Technical Committee (TC) 9.9 から以下のホワイトペーパが
公開されてました:

"2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments"
 Whitepaper prepared by ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9
 Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces, and Electronic Equipment
 2011/09/23
  http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/documents/ASHRAE%202011%20Liquid%20Cooling%20Whitepaper.pdf

[san-tech][03418] Slide, Paper: 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop at SC '11 (2011/11/13)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:27:19 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていた:

6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
 held in conjunction with Supercomputing '11
 November 13, 2011
  http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW11/

のペーパーと講演資料が上記 Webサイトで公開されています。

[san-tech][03417] Slide: OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) at Supercomputing 11 (SC '11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:47:35 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) での、OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) メンバー
発表資料が公開されました:

SC11
This folder contains the presentations by members at Supercomputing 2011
(SC11) in November, 2011.
  https://www.openfabrics.org/resources/document-downloads/presentations/cat_view/57-ofa-documents/23-presentations/39-trade-shows/72-sc11.html
※ブラウザーによってはアクセス出来ない場合があります。

2011/12/09

[san-tech][03416] IBM GPFS Native RAID & USENIX LISA '11

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:46:00 +0900
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2012/12/03
"Managing multi-petabyte disk systems using GPFS Native RAID"
 Crispin Keable - IBM
 23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23), 27, 28/11/2012
  https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/uploads/mew23/keable.pdf

23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23) - Agenda (Slides)
  https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/mew23?agenda=1
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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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現在開催中の USENIX LISA '11 (Dec. 4 - 9, 2011) の Technical Session
INVITED TALKS II, December 8で発表されている

"GPFS Native RAID for 100,000-Disk Petascale Systems"
 Veera Deenadhayalan, IBM Almaden Research Center
  http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/tech/slides/deenadhayalan.pdf

[san-tech][03415] pNFS in Technology Preview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:41:57 +0900
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先頃発表された Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2に pNFS関連が含まれています

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 - What's New
  http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RHEL_6_2_features_benefits.pdf

Parallel NFS (pNFS) in Technology Preview
Transfer rates faster than NFS support
*) pNFS is an extension of NFS that provides significantly larger data
   transfer rates compared to the traditional NFS architectures. This
   is achieved by processing the meta-data (a typical bottle neck for
   I/O throughput) separately from the actual data. By separating
   the meta-data and the data paths, pNFS allows clients to access
   storage devices directly and in parallel. pNFS is a part of standard
   NFS version 4.1 specification.
*) Support for pNFS is limited to client-side functionality for file
   layout only.

[san-tech][03414] TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720 (12-TB, SLC, 1U), December 6, 2011

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:02:33 +0900
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 Twitterで URLは流したのですが、

"TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720
 (12-TB, SLC, 1U) Flash storage system that scales to 500-TB within a single rack"
 December 6, 2011
  http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/149

  "The RamSan-720 offers 12 TB of Flash capacity, 5 GB/s of bandwidth,
   and no single point of failure. Its proprietary 2D Flash RAID
   technology delivers a new level of High Availability and data
   protection for mission-critical data sets."

2011/12/08

[san-tech][03413] Re: Slide: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011 (2011/12/06, 07)

Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:58:05 +0900
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2011年 12月 6、7と開催された:

HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011, December 6-7, 2011
  http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/Stanford-Workshop/index.php

の講演資料が公開されています。

2011/12/04

[san-tech][03410] Slide: October 2011 Open Networking Summit (2011/10/17 - 19)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:19:50 +0900
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 2011年 10月 17日~19日に開催された

October 2011 Open Networking Summit
  http://opennetsummit.org/past_conferences.html

の講演資料等が上記 Webページで公開されています。

Two tutorials
Keynote Session
Power of SDN: Shaping the Future
SDN for Data Center Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
SDN for Enterprise Networks: Technology, Applications, Markets
Keynote and ONF Information session
SDN for Service Provider Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
Wrap up Panel: Opportunities and Challenges with OpenFlow/SDN in the Market Place

[san-tech][03409] "日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU(国際電気通信連合)の国際規格として採用"、2012/12/02

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:07:50 +0900
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株式会社日立製作所と株式会社日立プラントテクノロジーのプレスリリースです:


"日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU(国際電気通信連合)
 の国際規格として採用"
 2011年12月2日
 株式会社日立製作所
 株式会社日立プラントテクノロジー
  http://www.hitachi-pt.co.jp/news/2011/pdf/20111202.pdf

[san-tech][03407] Slide: Server Design Summit 2011 (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:26:44 +0900
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 2011年 11月 29、30日に開催された:

Server Design Summit 2011
  http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/

講演資料が公開されています。

Get the Server Design Summit Proceedings
  http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/Array_Pages/Entrance_Proceedings.html