Wednesday November 18, 2009 Video: Sun Powered CLUMEQ Silo is Super Efficient HPC
When supercomputing consortium CLUMEQ designed its high-performance computing (HPC) system in Quebec, it was able to house it in the silo of a former particle accelerator on the Université Laval campus. The structure's 3-level cylindrical floor plan was ideal for cooling the 56 standard-size racks, and enabled the university to retain a treasured landmark. Full Story
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 Video: Sun Solutions for Optimizing MD Nastran Performance
In this video, Dale Layfield describes performance tuning recommendations and guidelines to allow an IT administrator or experienced MD Nastran user to configure both MD Nastran and the hardware platform for optimum performance. For more information, check out this Sun Blueprint: Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran.
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Wednesday October 28, 2009 Optimizing Simulations with Intel Flash and Oracle and MSC Software
Larry Mcintosh and Dale Layfield demonstrate the performance advantages of SSDs at Oracle Open World.
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Monday October 12, 2009 Video: Sun F5100 Flash Array - The 10X Difference
Announced recently at Oracle Open World, the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array is a 1.8 TByte high performance high density solid state flash array delivering over 1.6M IOPS (4K IO) and 12.8GB/sec throughput (1M reads).
The F5100 Flash Array is designed to accelerate IO-intensive applications, such as databases, at a fraction of the power, space, and cost of traditional hard disk drives. Check out the amazing benchmarks at the BestPerf blog.
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Monday September 28, 2009 Video: Jump into Multicore with nCore Design
In this video, Ian Lintault from nCore Design describes the various disciplines and skills needed to become proficient in developing parallel programs for multicore processors.
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Tuesday September 22, 2009 Sun today announced enhancements to it's Unified Storage Systems with 30 percent higher performance and unprecedented DTrace Anaytics Protection. Full Story
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Monday June 15, 2009 Featured Video: What's in the Future for SSD, Flash Technology?
In this video, Michael Cornwell, Sun Leading Flash Technologist, Jeff Bonwick, ZFS Inventor, and Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Co-Founder, take a look at how Flash technology will affect the server industry. Solid-State Flash Drives (SSDs) add value and savings when integrated in Sun Servers. Read about it in the SSD Business Value White Paper.
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Tuesday June 09, 2009 Video: Andy B. Shows Nehalem Servers
In this video, Andy Bechtolsheim walks us through the benefits of the new Sun Xeon 5500-Based Servers. Mr. Bechtolsheim will keynote the ISC'09 conference on June 23 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Friday May 08, 2009 Video: Lustre Storage System Best Practices - LUG 2009
In this video, Joey Jablonsky presents on the Sun Lustre Storage System. Recorded at the Lustre User Group 2009 in Sausalito. Download for iPod.
More LUG presentations are available at Lustre.org. You can also download a whitepaper on how the Lustre Storage System eliminates HPC performance bottlenecks.
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Tuesday April 21, 2009 Video: Lustre User Group 2009 Keynote - Peter Bojanic
In this video, Peter Bojanic presents the keynote address at the recent Lustre User Group meeting in Sausalito. You can find this and other slide presentations from the event on Lustre.org. Or you download this movie for iPod.
To learn about Sun's Lustre offerings, attend this e-seminar.
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Tuesday April 14, 2009 Video: Sun Blade x6275 with Intel Xeon 5500
In this video, Sun's Michael Schulman shows off the new dual-node Sun Blade x6275 with Intel Xeon 5500 processors.
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Friday March 20, 2009 In this video, Sun's Ray Austin describes the breakthrough innovation of the Sun Storage 7000 series of Unified Storage devices. If you're wondering what it might mean to HPC folks, check out Josh Simons' blog.
For a great technical writeup of Amber Road, be sure to check out Mike Shapiro's unpronounceable Fishworks blog.
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Saturday March 07, 2009 Video: Massive Data Sharing at SETI
In this video, Tucker Bradford, Director of Information Technology at SETI, speaks at the Open Storage Summit, Feb 2009. Produced by Deirdre Straughan.
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