Register Now: Sun HPC Consortium Portland, Nov 14-15

Coming to SC09 in Portland? There is still time to register for the Sun HPC Consortium.

This year, the Consortium has a terrific lineup of hot HPC topics including: Power and Cooling, Cluster Storage, HPC Virtualization, Data Management, Flash Performance, and HPC Interconnects.

Who should attend: All Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone interested in high-performance computing on Sun technologies. Each meeting is designed to address a wide range of interests from application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research. Registration Site.

Agenda Published: Sun HPC Consortium Portland, Nov 14-15

The Sun HPC Consortium has just published their agenda for the meeting in Portland on November 14-15. The customer meeting will take place at the Portland Hilton just prior to SC09.

Who should attend: All Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone interested in high-performance computing on Sun technologies. Each meeting is designed to address a wide range of interests from application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research.

Hurry! Early Bird rates end October 23. Registration Site.

Webinar: Cloud Computing 101, Oct. 7

Join Sun's Lew Tucker for this live webinar in which we'll look at several approaches to cloud computing that solve a variety of problems for start-ups and developers. In addition we will cover current issues in Cloud Computing and solutions that you can use today. Register Now.

Topic: Cloud Computing 101: An Introduction
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT / 19.00 CET (check my timezone)
Duration: 1 hour

Replays Available: Sun HPC Virtual Event

If you missed the Sun HPC Virtual Trade Show last week, don't fret! Replays are available of all the talks. So don't miss your chance to check out the trends and issues facing the computational ecosystem. Full Story

Andy Bechtolsheim & Marc Hamilton at HPC on Wall St.

Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim will keynote the High Performance on Wall Street conference on September 12 in New York. In this presentation, Andy will address key trends in the high performance computing market including the role of InfiniBand, 10 GigE, and the performance impact of solid state memory on data bandwidth.

To close the event, Sun's Marc Hamilton will participate in a panel discussion entitled "Wall Street Looks To The Future of HPC, Low Latency in the Cloud." Full Story

SC09 Masterworks Program to Focus on Planetary Issues

The upcoming SC09 conference in Portland is preparing a Masterworks Program that will address some of the biggest, greenest and fast-growing challenges in the field of high performance computing. Among the areas to be addressed by Masterworks speakers are energy, global climate change, and how computing is improving our understanding of human health and medicine. Full Story

SC09 August Newsletter

The SC09 Newsletter for August is out with these headlines:

* Intel Senior Fellow to Deliver Opening Address
* Housing and Tech Program Registration Open
* Broader Engagement Travel Grants Extended
* Broader Engagement Travel Offer to End August 17
* Submit Your Network Technologies to Xnet Now
* Student Volunteer Applications Due August 31
* Workshops Offer Diverse Topics to Complement SC09
* SC09 Bandwidth Entires Now Due September 19
* Storage Challenge to Notify Finalists August 17
* Apply Soon to Make Education Program Deadlines

Agenda Published: Sun HPC Virtual Trade Show, Sept. 17

The Sun HPC Virtual Trade Show has just published their agenda. Keynote speakers include Sun's Andy Bechtolsheim and Marc Hamilton, with additional talks from the Council on Competitiveness, Intel, Univa UD, and Clemson's CU-CCMS Center.

Live Webinar: Top HPC Use Cases in Life Sciences, Aug 27

Seminar title: Top HPC Use Cases in Life Sciences
Date: 8/27/09
Time: 12:00 pm EST

Learn from the experts how best to apply cutting edge high-performance computing techniques - such as cloud clustering and multi-core optimization - in a life sciences environment. This webinar will address the top use cases cited by our customers. Join Sun, Univa and eXludus for this one-hour live webinar. Register Now

Early Bird Rates End Today: Sun HPC Workshop Sept 7-10

Dan Templeton wanted us to remind everyone that the early bird registration for the Sun HPC Software Workshop '09, Sept 7-10 in Regensburg, Germany, ends Friday (31 July 2009). It's your last chance to sign up at the discounted rate.

Sun Microsystems welcomes you to the HPC Software Workshop 2009 and Advanced Seminars in beautiful Regensburg. It's an opportunity for users to get answers, advice, and suggestions regarding their specific implementations, and to share their insights with colleagues.

As you can see from the newly published agenda, this three day workshop contains three tracks with Sun and Customer presentations around Sun Grid Engine, Open Storage (including Lustre and SAM-QFS), and software tools such as Sun Studio and Sun HPC ClusterTools. Talks will range from general to very detailed engineering topics. See the Registration site for more details.

Announcing CloudCamp Munich, October 20, 2009

Please join us at CloudCamp Munich 2009 on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at Sun Microsystems Munich office.

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate. Full Story

Free Seminar: LSF-to-SGE Migration Workshop

Sun Microsystems, eXludus, and Univa UD invite you to attend a free LSF-to-SGE Migration Workshop on Monday, July 27, during the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco. Workshop flyer (pdf)

The LSF-to-SGE Migration Workshops provide participants with access to valuable tools and knowledge about migrating to a more cost-effective and complete UniCluster/SGE environment. This lunchtime workshop provides participants access to valuable tools and knowledge about migrating to a more complete, cost-effective Sun Grid Engine environment. Registration Site

While you're there, be sure to visit booth #610 in the South Exhibit Hall this year at DAC. Univa is co-exhibiting with Sun Microsystems' Grid Engine team and will be demoing their UniCluster product with Grid Engine embedded, as well as their UniCloud product which extends HPC to a Cloud Computing environment. Oracle will also join us in the booth to demonstrate a 'Private HPC Cloud' solution featuring Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM.

Univa will be giving away iPods throughout the event – so stop by the booth to register for the drawings!

Students: Win a Laptop in the Sun HPC Programming Challenge

Attention Students: Here is your chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop:

The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge 2009 is designed to promote the use of the Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris by students by having them compete to design and implement the most scalable and best-performing implementation of a common parallel algorithm.

The Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris combines virtualization technology with a high performance computing platform. This combination includes tools and technologies that enable you to develop, test, and deploy high performance computing applications. The package includes Sun Studio 12 u1 together with Sun Grid Engine 6.2u3 on top of a OpenSolaris 2009.06 installation. All software is freely available for download as a VMWare image. The Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris is a complete OpenSolaris HPC development environment preinstalled and preconfigured in a virtual machine. For developers who are unfamiliar with the OpenSolaris operating system or want a more integrated development experience, the Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris provides a way to start developing with minimal up-front investment of time and effort.

The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge is open to students at any degree level in any discipline who are legal residents of any of the European countries listed in the rules and regulations. See Rules and Regulations below for details. Participants in this programming contest will have to develop a fault-tolerant distributed hash table (DHT) implementation based on the Sun ClusterTools OpenMPI stack provided in the Sun HPC Software stack. Full Story

Webcast: Flash Technology Revolution in HPC

Join us for an extraordinary panel session that you just won't want to miss. In this eSeminar from Sun Microsystems, hosted by Tech Target, leading technical experts will discuss Flash technology and it's effect in the HPC environment.

The inexorable availability of ever more CPU cores, and even more GFLOPS per core, mean HPC application performance will no longer be restricted by the CPU - but by getting data into and out of these fast processors. I/O has always lagged behind computation, being ultimately dependent on disk drives throttled by rotational rates limited by mechanical physics. With an exponential growth spurt of peak GFLOPs available to HPC system designers and users, the CPU performance to I/O gap will reach increasingly gaping proportions.

To bridge this gap, Flash is being deployed in HPC environments as a revolutionary technology that delivers faster time to solution for HPC applications at significantly lower costs and lower power consumption than traditional disk based infra-structures.

View this one of a kind eSeminar panel discussion to discover more about flash technology from Sun Microsystems, Verari Systems, Fusion-io and Spansion. Hear first hand from these CTO's about flash technology and what it could do for your HPC environment. Launch Webcast

Sun HPC Consortium in a Nutshell

Josh Simons has a great writeup on the Sun HPC Consortium that wrapped up this week in Hamburg:

"Our first customer talk on Monday was given by Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert head of the Jülich Supercomputing Center(JCS), site of Sun's largest European deployment to date of our Sun Constellation System architecture. He first gave a brief history of the Jülich Research Center, which is one of the largest civilian research centers in Europe with over 4000 researchers in nine departments, one of which is the new Institute for Advanced Simulation of which JCS is a part. The site has a very long history of computer acquisitions, starting in 1957. This year JCS purchased three systems: a Sun system (JuRoPa), a Bull system (HPC-FF), and an IBM system (Jugene.) These systems have, respectively, 200 TFLOPs, 100 TFLOPs, and 1 PFLOPs of peak performance. Since the Sun and Bull systems are interconnected at the highest level of their switch hierarchies, the two machines can be run as a single system. This combined system delivered 274.8 TFLOPs on LINPACK which earned it the #10 entry on the latest edition of the TOP500 list. Collectively, JCS serves about 250 projects across Europe, including 20-30 highly scalable projects that are chosen by international referees for their potential for producing breakthrough science." Full Story

Photos from ISC'09

The thing I love about ISC is that they start the thing off with a big beer party in the exhibit hall. As a result, the Sun Booth was standing room only on opening night.

The band was rocking out at the opening reception. Listen to the Sax player jamming away.

Prasad Pai explains the inner workings of Sun xVM Ops Center

The new "M9" Sun Datacenter Switch 648 drew a lot of attention.

Michael Brown shows off the new Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand QDR Switched Network Express Module.

Larry Mcintosh and Dale Layfield show Peter Bojanic our SSD demo in the Intel booth. You can read Larry's blueprint article: SSDs in HPC: Reducing the I/O Bottleneck.

A German Don Juan serenades our own Kim Gerton.

SC09 Opens Registration, Housing

SC09 registration is now open. The event takes place November 14-20 in Portland, Oregon. SC09 housing registration is now open as well. Book your hotel rooms early to get the location you want.

Sun employees: Sun plans to hold the Sun HPC Consortium on Nov. 14-15 in Portland and registration will open in early September. That's if, you know, things work out that way ;-)

Announcing Sun Student Party, June 20 - Cafe Fees in Hamburg, Germany

Continuing the tradition started at SuperComputing '08 in Austin, Sun Microsystems will be hosting a party at ISC '09 for students with an interest in high-performance computing. The party is completely free and will include food, drinks, a DJ, give-aways, and a chance to get some 1-on-1 face time with Sun employees who are active in the field of high-performance computing. The party starts at 19:00 on Saturday (20th of June) at Cafe Fees. You can find more details at the Registration Site.

Help spread the word! We hope to see you there!

More Sun events at ISC are listed below.

Saturday, June 20

ISC'09 Student Event. Free student party sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

Sunday, June 21

* Sun HPC Consortium. HPC Customer/Partner event, Day 1.

Monday, June 22

* Sun HPC Consortium Day 2, featuring keynote by Andy Bechtolsheim.

Tuesday, June 23

* nVidia GPU Training Session 9:30am-11:00am, Hamburg Congress Centre.

* ISC keynote by Andy Bechtolsheim: 11:45-12:30 at Hall 3, convention center

* BoF: The Jülich Research on Petaflops Architectures, Axel Köhler, Sun, Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Jülich, Gilad Shainer, Mellanox, 1:30-2:10

* Andreas Dilger: Novel Network Request Scheduler for a Large Scale Storage System, 15:00-15:30, Hamburg Congress Centre, Room B2.1

Wednesday, June 24

* Sun HPC Stack and Lustre BoF. 8:30am - 10:00am, Hamburg Congress Centre, Hall 18

* Marc Hamilton: System Architectures for Cloud Computing, Hall 3, 9:50-10:10

* Sun HPC Stack and Lustre Engineering Q&A . 1:30pm - 4:00pm, Hamburg Congress Centre, Hall 18

Thursday, June 25

* JuRoPA Supercomputer Special Session Guest speaker: Marc Hamilton. 7:30am – 8:45am / Hamburg Congress Centre Hall 3

* ISC Vendor Forum: Ikroop Dhillon presents Sun Studio, 10:00-10:30, Hamburg Congress Centre Hall C2.1

* ISC Hot Seat: Robert Murphy presents on Open Storage for HPC. 2:30-2:45, Hamburg Congress Centre Hall 3

nVidia GPU Training Session, June 23, Hamburg, Germany

Coming to Hamburg for the ISC'09 conference? Sun Microsystems would like invite customers and partners to a special nVidia GPU Training Session at the Hamburg Congress Centre on Tuesday, June 23. Topics include: NVIDIA GPU Computing Ecosystem, Tesla line-up, CUDA programming.

There is limited space available, so Register today!

Sun Events Bookend ISC'09 Conference

Sun has a great set of ancillary events planned around the upcoming ISC'09 conference in Hamburg, Germany:

Saturday, June 20

ISC'09 Student Event. Free student party sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

Sunday, June 21

* Sun HPC Consortium. HPC Customer/Partner event, Day 1.

Monday, June 22

* Sun HPC Consortium Day 2, featuring keynote by Andy Bechtolsheim.

Tuesday, June 23

* nVidia GPU Training Session 9:30am-11:00am, Hamburg Congress Centre.

* ISC keynote by Andy Bechtolsheim: 11:45-12:30 at Hall 3, convention center

* BoF: The Jülich Research on Petaflops Architectures, Axel Köhler, Sun, Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Jülich, Gilad Shainer, Mellanox, 1:30-2:10

* Andreas Dilger: Novel Network Request Scheduler for a Large Scale Storage System, 15:00-15:30, Hamburg Congress Centre, Room B2.1

Wednesday, June 24

* Sun HPC Stack and Lustre BoF. 8:30am - 10:00am, Hamburg Congress Centre, Hall 18

* Marc Hamilton: System Architectures for Cloud Computing, Hall 3, 9:50-10:10

* Sun HPC Stack and Lustre Engineering Q&A . 1:30pm - 4:00pm, Hamburg Congress Centre, Hall 18

Thursday, June 25

* JuRoPA Supercomputer Special Session Guest speaker: Marc Hamilton. 7:30am – 8:45am / Hamburg Congress Centre Hall 3

* ISC Vendor Forum: Ikroop Dhillon presents Sun Studio, 10:00-10:30, Hamburg Congress Centre Hall C2.1

* ISC Hot Seat: Robert Murphy presents on Open Storage for HPC. 2:30-2:45, Hamburg Congress Centre Hall 3

Register Now: Sun HPC Consortium - Hamburg

We're just two weeks away from the Sun HPC Consortium. The meeting will take place in Hamburg, Germany on June 21-22, just prior to ISC'09. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim will once again be keynoting the event.

Who should attend: All Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone interested in high-performance computing on Sun technologies. Each meeting is designed to address a wide range of interests from application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research. Register today!

Sun HPC Consortium Hamburg: Early Bird Rates End Today!

Early-bird registration rates end May 28 for the Sun HPC Consortium. The meeting will take place in Hamburg, Germany on June 21-22, just prior to ISC'09. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim will once again be keynoting the event.

Who should attend: All Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone interested in high-performance computing on Sun technologies. Each meeting is designed to address a wide range of interests from application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research. Register today!

Latest SC09 Newsletter

The SC09 conference has released their latest newsletter with these headlines:

* Al Gore to Keynote Annual Supercomputing Conference
* Nominations Sought for Cray, Fernbach, and First-Ever Kennedy Award
* Sustainability Plays Role in Data Center Challenge
* SC09 Student Job Fair Open to Exhibitor Participation
* SC09 Exhibits Continues to Show HPC Industry Strengths
* Submissions Are Open for the SC09 Storage Challenge
* SCinet Call for Circuits Approaching May 29
* Call for Xnet Submissions

If you have colleagues who would like to subscribe to this monthly newsletter, they should send an email from
the address they want subscribed, with 'subscribe' in the subject line, to:
sc-newsletter-request@group.supercomputing.org

Latest ISC Newsletter

The latest ISC Conference Newsletter has been published with these topics:

· ISC registration hits new record
· Clever move - early bird registration
· BoF sessions scheduled
· Posters selected
· Changes in schedule, HPC and Oil Exploration und GPUSession
· Media sponsors on ISC‘09
· Hamburg tip for attendees

Hurry! ISC early-bird registration rates end on May 25. Registration site.

If you're coming to Hamburg, be sure to attend the Sun HPC Consortium, where early-bird registration rates end May 21. The meeting will take place in Hamburg, Germany on June 21-22, just prior to ISC'09. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim will once again be keynoting the event.

Clemson Presents CAE Productivity e-Seminar, May 20

Boost your CAE productivity, and break-away from the pack

Join Clemson University as they present their groundbreaking engineering simulations research at their Computational Center for Mobility Systems.

eSeminar: May 20, 2009 at 10am PT

Dr. James Leylek, Executive Director, will discuss several Clemson projects that reduced development costs while speeding up time to market for manufacturers looking for new ways to get to the next level in their product development process. Hear about the state of the art, fully integrated HPC environment at CU-CCMS, created in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, Voltaire and Ansys. Find out how this unique partnership has led to innovative methods that address automotive, aerospace and energy industry business problems.

Participate in this eSeminar and ask questions of the experts on May 20th, 2009 at 10am PT. Register today.