| News digest 25 June 2009 |
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| Building your own Cloud data centre? For one billion Euro you have one! |
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Clouds and HPC do they fit together? For the real high-end supercomputing not so well yet, was the conclusion of the "Cloud Computing and HPC - Synergy or Competition?" session at ISC09. For industrial thoughput computing in HPC it could be useful already. Especially for bursty applications like chip design.
But what does it take to set up a Cloud data centre? As lectures from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft explained it takes a lot in infrastructure, computers, middleware and management. And you need deep pockets: to be exploitable, you need to build very large data centres. A typical Cloud data centre with one million processor cores typically costs about a million Euro or dollar.
Even if you build them low cost. Cloud data centres consist of containers, yes the same type you see on boats - that house the servers. No fancy glass buildings or former churches that are in use as HPC centres today.
Some major general computing vendors and the large Cloud providers, presented their views and products on Clouds. Some even talked a bit about HPC and Clouds.
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| IBM achieves record 10th straight perfromance number one showing on TOP500 Supercomputer List |
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For a record-setting tenth consecutive time, an IBM system holds the number one position in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers in respect to performance. The IBM computer built for the "Roadrunner project" at Los Alamos National Lab - the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one Pflop/s - remains the world speed champion.
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| The 'best-of-the-best' supercomputers leverage AMD Opteron processors |
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At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD Opteron processors continue to power many of the highest-performing supercomputers in the world, including the top two overall.
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| Contracts without lawyers? |
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Computer systems that dynamically create, monitor, manage or suspend on-line contractual agreements are being developed to deliver greater reliability and security to service-oriented e-business applications. Lawyers have refined and developed their vocabulary over hundreds of years to eliminate uncertainty and vagueness from their terminology. Achieving clarity in human terms is one thing, developing contractual terms that can be interpreted by computers, adds a requirement for further levels of specification.
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| P&T Luxembourg offers Cloud single sign-on with Bull Evidian |
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P&T Luxembourg, the largest telecom and postal services operator in Luxembourg, has selected Evidian Enterprise SSO as part of its integrated "Cloud computing" IS outsourcing offer. After a single authentication, P&T Luxembourg's customers will easily access to all their applications on virtual desktops.
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| AVL employs PBS GridWorks for powertrain engineering and development |
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AVL, a large privately-owned and independent company for the development of powertrain systems, has selected PBS Professional the flagship product of Altair Engineering's PBS GridWorks to manage their engineering workload. Already a long-term customer of HyperWorks, Altair's engineering simulation software platform, AVL has expanded their adoption of Altair technologies with the addition of PBS Professional.
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| Altair launches analytics and desktop-user portal with new release of PBS GridWorks |
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Altair Engineering has released PBS GridWorks 10.1. This latest version builds upon the proven scalability and resiliency of PBS Professional for workload scheduling; delivers PBS Catalyst, an application-aware job management portal; and unveils PBS Analytics to provide expanded options for visualizing usage data to optimize high-performance computing investments.
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| Platform Computing announces private Cloud management software |
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Platform Computing, a global expert in Grid and Cloud software, has launched a new software product for managing private Cloud environments. Platform ISF is the first end-to-end Cloud management product for enterprises to build and run their private Clouds. It is the centerpiece of Platform's Cloud strategy and will be made available for beta in June with general availability planned for the Fall.
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| T-Platforms to present comprehensive solutions at ISC'09 Exhibitor Forum Session |
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Andrey Slepuhin, Head of Research at T-Platforms presented this Russian developer of turn-key solutions for supercomputing which was founded in 2002 and is now for the first time present at the ISC Conference. T-Platforms covers over 28% of the CIS HPC market according to IDC and has 40% of installations in the Top50 list of most powerful computers in Russia and CIS. The company develops the most powerful computers in Russia and has more than 100 employees.
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| T-Platforms Presents Seismic Data Processing Solution |
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T-Platforms presented its proprietary HPC solution for seismic data processing and the results of tests with real life data at the traditional spring User Group Meeting of Paradigm Geophyical LLC, an affiliate of Paradigm B.V. The results pleased both Paradigm specialists, who ran the test, and industry specialists attending the Meeting alike.
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| T-Platforms to be the first Russian company to participate in the International Supercomputer Conference |
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This year, for the first time a Russian company will be participating in the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) in Germany, which is one of the most important events in the world of supercomputer development. Representing progress in the development of domestic high speed computing, Russian holding company T-Platforms will show its new supercomputer system's amazing performance capabilities.
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| Mellanox InfiniBand provides the best return on investment by delivering the highest system efficiency and utilization in the TOP500 High-Performance Computing Systems |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s InfiniBand adapters and switch solutions enables the highest system efficiency and utilization as reported in the 33rd edition of the TOP500 list. Mellanox InfiniBand demonstrates up to 94 percent system utilization, only 6 percent under the theoretical limit, providing users with the best return on investment for their high-performance computing server and storage infrastructure known in the industry. This year's TOP500 list reveals that InfiniBand is the only growing industry-standard interconnect solution, increasing 25 percent to 152 systems, representing more than 30 percent of the TOP500.
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| TotalView Technologies opens beta for MemoryScape 3.0, TotalView 8.7, and ReplayEngine 1.5 |
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TotalView Technologies has opened beta for MemoryScape 3.0, TotalView 8.7, and ReplayEngine 1.5. The updated versions of these products incorporate the intuitive MemoryScape interface into the TotalView debugger, allowing either product to be launched from the other; and advance ReplayEngine for long-running applications.
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| Clemson University's Computational Center for Mobility Systems deploys Panasas storage to advance research for automotive, aviation, and energy industries |
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The Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) has chosen the Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage system to help accelerate its research and innovation.
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| Sun announces major update to Sun Studio compilers and tools software |
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Sun Studio 12 Update 1, a major upgrade to its software compiler and tools technology, is freely available for download. Sun Studio software provides an advanced suite of tools for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), OpenSolaris, the next generation of the Solaris OS, and leading Linux platforms, including parallelizing compilers, powerful debuggers, advanced thread and performance analysis tools, and highly-tuned libraries that help simplify the creation of high-performance applications and provide an optimized development environment for the latest multi-core x86 and SPARC-based systems.
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| Supercomputing Center sees 46 percent performance gain with Cray CX1 supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 |
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The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE) tested the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer running Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 and found the system is 46 percent faster in the delivery of complex analyses, resulting in greater researcher productivity. The results were reported in a newly released case study published by Cray and Microsoft's high performance computing (HPC) groups.
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| Cray adds additional storage options for the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer |
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Customers who purchase a Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer can now personalize their systems with new storage features. Available immediately, Cray CX1 customers now have two more options in configuring their deskside supercomputers - solid-state drives (SSDs) and large capacity, fixed-drive storage blades.
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| Japan's Railway Technical Research Institute puts two Cray supercomputers into production |
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The Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Japan has put a Cray XT4 supercomputer and a Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer into production. The order for these two Cray systems from this commercial customer was not previously announced. RTRI is currently using both of its Cray supercomputers to accelerate large-scale simulations that push the boundaries of innovation in railway technologies.
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| Mellanox adapters and switch solutions power Europe's largest 40Gb/s network demonstration at ISC'09 |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s 40Gb/s InfiniBand ConnectX adapters and IS5000 family of switches deliver the fastest available connectivity with the lowest latency for server and storage vendors at the International Supercomputing (ISC'09) conference being held June 23-26 in Hamburg, Germany. ISC'09 is Europe's premier exhibition and conference on high-performance computing, networking, and storage.
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| Mellanox announces 648-port modular 40Gb/s InfiniBand switch with comprehensive enterprise-class fabric management suite for data centres and high-performance systems |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd. has made available its industry-leading IS5000 40Gb/s InfiniBand switch system family and FabricIT management suite. These new products enable compute clusters and data centres to efficiently scale using switch building blocks from 36 to 648 ports in a single enclosure. Leveraging Mellanox's 4th generation of InfiniBand silicon and industry's lowest latency, the switch family and full line of host channel adapters provide customers with the optimal combination of proven performance and efficiency enhancement.
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| Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology maximizes I/O performance and reduces power consumption in HP Extreme Scale-Out solution |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switches are being integrated into the new HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio. Mellanox's industry-leading 40Gb/s InfiniBand products are proven networking solutions for compute-intensive server and storage connectivity.
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