Monday April 20, 2009 
In web news, our friends at Sun.com have made it a lot easier to find the latest info on high performance computing. You can check that out now at sun.com/hpc.
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Feature Story] ( April 20, 2009 08:07 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Friday March 13, 2009 Agenda Published: Lustre User Group, April 16-17
The Lustre User Group has published their preliminary agenda for their upcoming meeting on April 15-16. The event will feature customer talks from Framestore, Harvard, ORNL, and Sandia in addition to technical updates from the Lustre engineering team.
Register Now for Early-Bird Rates!
LUG09 - Seventh Annual Lustre User Group Meeting
April 16-17, 2009
The Cavallo Point Lodge
Sausalito, California
Registration is now open for the Lustre User Group, the premier event for learning new technical information, acquiring best practices, and sharing knowledge about Lustre technology. LUG09 is a once-a-year opportunity for users to get answers, advice, and suggestions regarding their specific Lustre implementations.
Attendees will have access to experts and peers who will share their real-world experiences. With updates on the community development project, Birds of a Feather sessions, demos, and tutorials, LUG09 is the perfect opportunity to meet with the Lustre development team and discuss upcoming enhancements and capabilities.
Hurry! To take advantage of the $350 Early Bird registration rate, you must register by March 16, 2009.
Special Course Available: Lustre Advanced Administration and Support
April 15, 2009
The Cavallo Point Lodge
Sausalito, California
For the first time ever, a special course on Lustre Advanced Administration and Support will be offered on April 15 before the User Group meeting. This course is designed for people who already have a good understanding and and experience with the Lustre File System. The class will cover a host of advanced architectural and support techniques. Space will be limited for this course and tuition discounts will be offered for LUG attendees.
Register now for the Lustre Advanced Administration and Support Seminar. LUG attendees will get a special discount on course registration.
See you at LUG09!
If you have any questions or interest about LUG09, please contact us at
LUG2009@sun.com
Thursday March 05, 2009 Benchmark: Blazing-Fast Sun Fire x4450 on GigaSpaces XAP Platform
GigaSpaces, Sun and Intel have recently completed a joint project to test extreme scalability with XAP on Sun Fire X4450 multi-core servers using Intel Xeon 7460 processors (4 CPUs with six cores each). The results of the latest Sun Fire benchmark are definitely worth a mention:
* 1.8 million read ops/sec and 1.1 million write/take ops/sec using 30 threads (XAP running collocated).
* 1 ms latency including H/A (replication to in-memory backup) for a remote write operation. 0.4 ms latency excluding H/A.
* Pet Clinic (Web App) Benchmark – 16,223 pages/sec with 6 ms latency, 5000 concurrent users (extrapolated)
* Credit Risk HPC Benchmark – near-linear scalability up to 32 concurrent workers, calculating 4096 portfolios in 100 seconds.
This is part of a series of benchmarks testing XAP's scalability on multi-core platforms (Sun UltraSPARC T1, Sun T5240, Azul Vega 3). Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Feature Story] ( March 05, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
