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In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, J.Mario Gallegos from Dell presents: Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices. "Merging of strengths of both technologies to solve big data problems permits harvesting the power of HPC clusters on very fast storage."The post Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is using Comcast Business Ethernet for secure, private network connections to eight associated colleges.The post PSC Brings Big Bandwidth to Eight Pennsylvania Schools appeared first on insideHPC.

Louisiana State University is seeking an HPC User Services Analyst in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC User Services Analyst at LSU appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SGI announced that the Earthquake and Volcano Information Center of the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Tokyo, has deployed a large-scale parallel computing solution from SGI for leading-edge seismological and volcanological research.The post SGI Powers Earthquake Research in Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Allinea Software released details on partnership that is helping scientists in research and industry to exploit Piz Daint - Europe's most powerful supercomputer.The post Accelerating the Piz Daint Supercomputer with Allinea appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe celebrated its fifth anniversary. In the past five years, PRACE has come a long way, growing from a project-based consortium into a fully-fledged international association of 25 countries.The post PRACE Celebrates Fifth Anniversary appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Univa announced the Universal Resource Broker, an enterprise-class workload optimization solution for high performance, containerized and shared data centers.The post Univa Rolls Out Universal Resource Broker appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell has teamed with Intel to create innovative solutions that can accelerate the research, diagnosis and treatment of diseases through personalized medicine. The combination of leading-edge CPUs from Intel and the systems and storage expertise from Dell create a state-of-the-art solution that is easy to install, manage and expand as required.The post Dell’s GDAP Delivers an Integrated Genomic Processing Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

"Intel supports users, system integrators, and OEMs using ZFS with Intel Lustre. In this presentation, we summarize the results of proof-of-concept (PoC) on a variety of the ZFS configurations. We cover sequential and metadata performance, data Integrity, manageability, availability and reliability. The work identifies the areas where development should be focused in order to fill gap in performance or functionality and encourage system administrator to integrate this technology with the existing high availability framework like Pacemaker/Corosync. We also cover the most important tunables for ZFS in combination with Lustre and the most notable metrics for Lustre and ZFS."The post Video: Current Status of ZFS as Backend File System for Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

Asetek has announced its first production order for its RackCDU Direct-to-Chip data center liquid cooling system under the previously announced OEM purchase agreement with Fujitsu.The post Asetek Lands Largest Order Yet for RackCDU with Fujitsu appeared first on insideHPC.

How does a woman break through the glass ceiling? In this video from the Re/Code Conference, Intel's Diane Bryant discusses the pathway to diversity in the tech sector.The post Intel’s Diane Bryant on Bringing Diversity to the Tech Sector appeared first on insideHPC.

"n this session, Seagate covers configuration guidelines and tuning of LNET Routing from InfiniBand to Ethernet using Lustre 2.1 through 2.6 server/clients as well demonstrating performance results by means of a synthetic benchmark called IOR. In addition, this presentation includes the topic of LNET Router failure and recovery during I/O as well as what environments can expect during these failure events."The post Video: Lustre Network (LNET) Router Configuration and Tuning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NERSC announced that their Cori Phase 1 system will be the first supercomputer installed in the new Computational Research and Theory Facility, which is now in the final stages of construction at LBNL. Expected to be delivered this summer, the Cray XC40 supercomputer will be powered by Intel Haswell processors and Cray's DataWarp burst buffer technology.The post NERSC to Install Cori Phase 1 Supercomputer this Summer appeared first on insideHPC.

Although there are a number of truly huge implementations of Lustre today, the community is still far from reaching the maximum configurations that the Lustre architecture is designed for. Inside the Lustre File System describes the basics of how the Lustre File System operates with descriptions of the newest features.The post Introduction to the Lustre File System appeared first on insideHPC.

In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Mike Place about SaltStack, a fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive orchestration, cloud and data center automation, server provisioning, application deployment and more.The post RCE Podcast Looks at SaltStack Scalable System Configuration Manager appeared first on insideHPC.

This week LANL announced that high school students Meghan Hill and Katelynn James took the top prize in the 25th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. Their research project, “Using Concentrated Heat Systems to Shock the P53 Protein to Direct Cancer into Apoptosis.” posited that using nanotechnology robots can kill cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.The post Supercomputing Challenge Winners Examine Nanotech for Fighting Cancer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the Wrangler data analysis and management supercomputing system is now in early operations for the open science community. Supported by a grant from the NSF, Wrangler uses innovative DSSD technology for data-intensive computing.The post TACC’s “Wrangler” Uses DSSD Technology for Data-Intensive Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Rich Brueckner reports back from the LUG 2015 Lustre User Group Meeting. With something like 188 attendees this year, LUG reflects a user community that has come together to foster the world’s fastest parallel file system.The post Radio Free HPC Field Report from LUG2014 appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at NICS, Scott Gibson writes that researchers are using supercomputers to model the spread of wildfires.The post Supercomputing Sudden Firestorms appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Bright Computing announced a partnership with CVIS, a Dutch-based company that delivers innovative HPC solutions to organizations in the Benelux region.The post Bright Partners with CVIS for Benelux HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

As data analytics becomes more mission critical, hardware and software need to evolve to handle both historical data (batch) and real time streaming data. This combined ability to manage different types of data is critical for a wide range of organizations.The post The High Performance Data Analytics Market appeared first on insideHPC.

"Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices offers a global overview of HPC for industrial applications, along with a discussion of software challenges, business models, access models (e.g., cloud computing), public-private partnerships, simulation and modeling, visualization, big data analysis, and governmental and industrial influence."The post NCSA’s Merle Giles Publishes New Book on Industrial HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

"Andreas Dilger from Intel presents an overview on the features currently under development for the upcoming Lustre 2.8 and 2.9 releases. This includes Layout Enhancement, Progressive File Layouts, Data-on-MDT, and improved single-client metadata and IO performance. In addition, several Lustre-specific ZFS improvements are also under development that will be available in this timeframe."The post Video: Lustre 2.8 and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

NCI in Australia has signed a $2M deal with Fujitsu to work with storage and data management company NetApp to supply and install all-flash storage arrays with a raw storage capacity of 11 petabytes, bringing NCI’s total raw storage capacity from 33 petabytes to 44 petabytes.The post NCI Boosts Storage to 44 Petabytes with Fujitsu & NetApp appeared first on insideHPC.

"With the current Lustre Performance Monitoring Tool (LMT) no longer in active development, and the current version incompatible with DNE based Lustre 2.5 deployments, there is a critical need for a new set of tools delivering the same basic Lustre performance metrics with the added ability to work compatibly with contemporary releases of Lustre."The post Video: New and Improved Lustre Performance Monitoring Tool appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project, initiated by Facebook as a way to increase computing power while lowering associated costs with hyper-scale computing, has gained a significant industry following. Several vendors have released, or will soon release, servers based on Open Compute specifications.The post Open Computing: Vendor Landscape appeared first on insideHPC.

“The Cray-Seagate partnership is helping expand the boundaries of what’s possible in large-scale, data-intensive computing, far beyond what we could have imagined just 10 years ago. This continued innovation using the Lustre open file system is helping assist data-intense applications critical to advancements in important industries around the world.”The post Seagate Powers 120 Petabytes of HPC Storage with Cray appeared first on insideHPC.

We had a great time covering the Lustre User Group meeting in Denver last week. In this special feature, we added a blues music track to the OpenSFS slideshow from the event. Enjoy!The post Special Feature: Slideshow from #LUG2015 appeared first on insideHPC.

"The combination of the ephemeral nature of the cloud and directly addressable archives such as S3 suggest novel methods for using the Lustre HSM interface. Persistent data sets in the cloud need to be managed independently from a ephemeral filesystem and compute resources. Managing datasets in the cloud could, for example, involves importing data from Amazon's S3 back into a freshly-created Lustre filesystem, performing I/O intensive computations, and then persisting the datasets back to S3 before terminating the filesystem and compute resources. Alternatives for archive formats will also be discussed. AWS S3 will be used for concrete examples, but the general methods should be applicable to other cloud environments as well."The post Video: Lustre HSM in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today's large-scale compute clusters take a lot of preparation for shipping. "Logistics planning for the KAUST shipment started months in advance, and it took 12 Cray personnel almost five days to prepare and pack the system. The KAUST shipment consisted of 184 boxes, weighed 127 tons, and filled an entire Boeing 747 airplane — plus part of another. Ten semi-trucks were required to transport Shaheen II from Cray’s manufacturing facility in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to the airport in Chicago."The post Video: Preparing the Cray XC40 for Shipment to KAUST appeared first on insideHPC.

The SGI UV system is uniquely suited for bioinformatics and genomics by providing the computational capabilities and global shared memory architecture needed for even the most demanding sequencing and analytic tasks, including post sequencing and other data intensive workflows.The post Key Benefits of SGI UV 2000 Architecture for Life Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.

"Large scale HPC IO is usually done either with a file per process or to a single shared file. Single shared file IO does not scale well in Lustre compared to file per process. This presentation from Cray's Patrick Farrell will give details, examine the reasons for this, and explore existing and potential solutions. Group locks and a new feature, lock ahead, will be discussed in the context of strided IO."The post Video: Shared File Performance in Lustre – Challenges and Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Dr. Lewey Anton brings us the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.The post HPC People on the Move – April Edition appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Robert Triendl from DDN presents: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows.The post Video: Application-optimized Lustre Solutions for Big-Data Workflows appeared first on insideHPC.

The ISC High Performance Conference is seeking Student Volunteers. The event takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.The post Appy Now: ISC High Performance Conference Needs Student Volunteers appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Stan Ahalt from the National Consortium for Data Science discusses how and why the organization came into being.The post NCDS Takes Action on Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

Today RSC Group announced the installation of a MVS-10P MP Petastream supercomputer at the Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JSCC RAS). As is the first project in the Commonwealth of Independent States based on the latest Intel Xeon Phi 7120D coprocessors, the supercomputer weighs in at #20 of the Top50 list of the most powerful computing systems in Russia and CIS.The post RSC PetaStream Powers Russian Academy of Sciences appeared first on insideHPC.

"Pleiades, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA missions. Powered by Lustre, this distributed-memory SGI ICE cluster is connected with InfiniBand in a dual-plane hypercube technology."The post Video: Defending the Planet with Lustre appeared first on insideHPC.

As datasets and simulations continue to increase in size and complexity, interactivity with the data should be maintained. It is important to understand how SIMD parallelism can be used when evaluating large fault tree expressions on a large volume of input.The post Fault Trees appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Peter Bojanic from Seagate presents: Seagate Lustre Update. "Seagate powers four of the five 1 TB/sec filesystems in the world today."The post Video: Seagate Lustre Update appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) announced a significant step forward in the delivery of Summit, the next-generation supercomputer IBM will deliver in 2017 to greatly advance the nation's energy and science agenda. Following a formal call for proposals and a review process, ORNL revealed 13 science application readiness projects selected as part of the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program.The post OLCF Moves Forward on Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Universities and hospitals like TGen and NMTRC are seeing an entirely new reality in patient care leveraging HPC clusters. Here are some success stories on on advances in personalized medicine.The post Success Stories in Personalized Medicine appeared first on insideHPC.

articleIn this podcast, Michael Grabe from the University of California - San Francisco describes how scientists designed completely from scratch a protein molecule that behaves like a slice of life.The post Podcast: Supercomputing Synthetic Transporter Proteins appeared first on insideHPC.

"A little over a year ago LANL’s HPC Division purchased and fielded our first general purpose InfiniBand-based Lustre parallel file system. This new Lustre deployment, being the first of several similar planned deployments, gave us the opportunity to design a new storage backbone from the ground up and to gain in depth experience with and insight into Lustre technology in order to facilitate the installment and configuration of future systems."The post Video: There and Back Again – The Battle of Lustre at LANL appeared first on insideHPC.