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SC09 Conference starts Monday in Portland

Several of us are already in Portland, in advance of the HPC conference, to attend HP-CAST . HP-CAST is a user group focused on HPC, whose fall meeting is usually held right before the industry-wide SC event. This 13 th Group Meeting just got kicked off...

Published 11-14-2009 1:00 AM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, hybrid, SC09, HP-CAST

GPUs on the Fast Track at Keeneland

Use of GPUs for HPC seems to be reaching a new stage of adoption, based on activity we’re seeing. NVIDIA announced the eagerly anticipated next generation solution, Fermi, last month. By adding in capabilities such as Error Correction, Fermi provides...

Published 10-26-2009 10:33 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: GPUs, NVIDIA, Fermi, Georgia Tech

Collectl-utils have just been released as Open Source

For those of you aren't familiar with collectl, it's a lightweight performance monitoring tool that's been around for a number of years and used on some of our largest clusters. One of its features is to be able to write data in a plottable...

Published 10-09-2009 3:42 PM by mark.seger@hp.com

HP saw the wheels of recovery turning last week at HP's 20th Annual CAE Symposium....in Detroit!

I got the following report from Christine Fronczak , our WW Computer-Aided Engineering Business Manager, highlighting observations from the recent HP CAE Symposium (see prior blog), and thought it would be intersesting to share with you all. Thanks, Christine...

Published 10-09-2009 3:29 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, CAE, CAE Symposium

20th HP CAE Symposium hits Motor City to talk advances in computational engineering

This week, HP’s high-performance computing team hits Detroit for our 20 th HP CAE Symposium. Bringing together customers, partnering and CAE thought leaders, this year’s event will focus on the power of computer-aided engineering to speed...

Published 09-29-2009 9:46 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, CAE, CDPA

Moab Con in Provo

Adaptive Computing (formerly Cluster Resources) is hosting its second annual Moab Con next week, Sept. 16-18. Two areas of focus include, of course, resource management for HPC, and management of cloud resources. HP's Susanne Balle will be delivering...

Published 09-11-2009 5:49 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: MOAB, DWU, Private Clouds

HP Tops Top500 Again!

The new Top500 list was released recently, and HP (and BladeSystems) again tops the list as the preferred technology choice by this extremely knowledgeable and demanding community of users! What's the Top500? It's a listing of the world's...

Published 07-15-2009 1:42 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, clusters, TOP500, BladeSystems

Interconnect technologies: InfiniBand, 1G Ethernet, 10G Ethernet

Interconnect is an integral part of any scale-out solutions. The question often asked is something like "which interconnect should I use for my next scale-out project?" Well, a simple answer is "it depends". For many applications in...

Published 07-02-2009 4:40 PM by guodong.zhang@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, high performance computing, performance, Ethernet, scale-out, InfiniBand, interconnect, cluster, 10G Ethernet

Less Skin in the Game

Today HP announced the new ExSO portfolio . The products are designed for Extreme Scale Out (duh) but are quite applicable for HPC and clusters. After all, the typical HPC user wants highest performance per dollar, and per watt. Yes, these systems are...

Published 06-10-2009 2:52 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, clusters, SL6000, web, ExSO, cloud

What is your monitoring interval?

While a lot of systems do in fact run some sort of automated monitoring tools such as sar, ganglia, cacti and others, I'm always surprised to hear that the monitoring intervals being used are on the order of 5-10 minutes long. The positive note is...

Published 06-10-2009 11:09 AM by mark.seger@hp.com

Filed under: performance, monitoring

SLURM: a Simple Resource Manager no more!

SLURM , the "Highly Scalable Resource Manager" from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has come a long way. When we started using it for some of the products in our Unified Cluster Portfolio , SLURM had only a simple FIFO scheduler, no...

Published 06-08-2009 11:31 PM by uathb

Filed under: HPC, clusters, high performance computing

HPC at HP Tech Forum (June 15-18)

Posts from Mark and Kent in this blog have covered topics that we’ll be covering in two weeks at the HP Technology Forum, in Las Vegas. Mark is delivering two talks on Cluster Monitoring, including a deep dive on Collectl, the open source project...

Published 06-05-2009 12:38 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, HP Tech Forum

Confused About HPC Hardware Accelerators?

Are you confused about what is an HPC accelerator and if and when to use them? If so, you are not alone. They work for small segments of the overall high performance computing (HPC) application markets but for a growing list of applications they can be...

Published 06-03-2009 8:35 PM by koeningerk

Filed under: OpenCL, accelerators, Heterogeneous Computing, CUDA, Stream Computing, GPUs, NVIDIA, FPGAs, ATI, Larrabee

Do you suffer from cluster monitoring schizophrenia?

There are a number of different choices one is faced with when setting up a cluster monitoring policy that can literally drive you crazy. For starters I'd like to raise just one of them and that is local vs centralized data collection. I would suspect...

Published 05-28-2009 8:46 PM by mark.seger@hp.com

"To Boldy Go" - HP Clusters enable spacecraft design

So it's not brain surgery, but it is rocket science! See article in Supercomputing Online. http://supercomputingonline.com/index.php/2009050816472/latest/orbital-sciences-corporation-uses-hp-supercomputer-to-design-the-next-generation-of-spacecraft...

Published 05-28-2009 6:32 PM by alanna.dwyer@hp.com

Filed under: HPC, clusters, high performance computing, Orbital Sciences, MOAB, CAE

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