Tuesday June 09, 2009 New Blog Charts Best Performance
Performance benchmarks can be a confusing and ever-changing landscape. Help is on the way with the new BestPerf blog, which contains many different performance results and the best practices on the broad range of Sun's products. The authors of this blog are engineers from Sun's Strategic Applications Engineering group.
Today's entry: A look at how Sun Studio measures up to the GCC compiler. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( June 09, 2009 11:05 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]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.
Posted by Rich Brueckner [Video of the Week] ( June 09, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Monday June 08, 2009 HPC Offer of the Week: 10% Off Storage with X86 Purchase
In this HPC Offer of the Week, buy any X86 server with select storage products and take an additional 10% off your storage purchase. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Offer of the Week] ( June 08, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Sunday June 07, 2009 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!
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Events] ( June 07, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Saturday June 06, 2009 Largest Sun Supercomputer in Europe Fires Up at Jülich
Sun Microsystems announced the supercomputer JuRoPA2 went online last week at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. The new HPC system at Jülich Supercomputing Centre is the most powerful Sun technology-based computer in Europe, featuring 2,208 nodes supported by the Sun Constellation System and Sun Blade X6275 server modules. The Sun Constellation Systems operate with record-setting Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor 5570 series and communicate with each other via six newly developed "Project M9" InfiniBand switches from Sun. The "Project M9" switches supply quad data rate (QDR) and up to 648 ports while slashing the amount of complex cabling required. Like the Sun Constellation System, they are part of Sun's open PetaFLOP architecture, a package of integrated components for HPC applications. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( June 06, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Friday June 05, 2009 New Blueprint: Configuring Systems for High Bandwidth I/O
A newly published Sun Blueprint by Kevin Colwell and Carolyn Bumatay describes a recipe for configuring systems to support the very high bandwidth I/O capabilities needed by data-intensive applications. Full Story
Thursday June 04, 2009 
In this podcast from the Research, Computing, and Engineering site, Brock Palen speaks with Jeff Squyres and George Bosilca of the Open MPI project. Listen to the podcast or Subscribe on iTunes.
As described in this video, Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1 software is based on Open MPI and offers a comprehensive set of tools for parallel program development and resource management.
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( June 04, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [1]
Wednesday June 03, 2009 Whitepaper: Building HPC Systems for Business-Critical Workloads
A new whitepaper on Sun Business Ready HPC Solutions describes how the company delivers complete HPC clusters that meet the needs of small- and mid-sized organizations. The Sun Rapid Solutions Sun Compute Cluster provides an HPC solution composed of easy-to-deploy clusters, with a choice of components that includes compute, storage, network, software, and services all working together in a well-tuned system. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( June 03, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Tuesday June 02, 2009 NEW: Lustre BoF and Q&A Sessions at ISC'09
Sun Microsystems is pleased to invite you to the following ancillary events at ISC'09 in Hamburg, Germany:
HPC Stack and Lustre BOF
Wednesday, June 24, 8:30am -10:00am,
Hamburg Congress Centre, Room 18
As Sun’s Lustre filesystem and the complimentary Sun HPC Stack evolve, a number of new features are planned to enhance functionality and scalability. These includes clustered metadata, petascale scalability, end to end data integrity using the Sun ZFS filesystem. Please join us for an overview of current features and new developments planned with these two Sun products.
HPC Stack and Lustre Engineering Q&A
1:30pm -4:00pm,
Hamburg Congress Centre, Room 18
Senior engineers Makia Minich of the HPC Stack team and Andreas Dilger of the Lustre team will review areas of technology they are currently working on, and take detailed questions from the audience.
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Monday June 01, 2009 Sun unveils entry-level SSD-hybrid storage array
Sun Microsystems recently unveiled a low-end addition to its lineup of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage arrays. The new Sun Storage 7310 array allows solid-state disk (SSD) drives and hard disk drives to be used in the same chassis and under the same management interface.
The Sun Storage 7310 array is also capable of clustering high-availability applications. And it uses Sun's Hybrid Storage Pool technology, which allows users to add up to 600GB of SSD storage to the existing 64GB of dynamic RAM cache. In a two-node clustered configuration, the storage system offers up to 124GB of DRAM cache. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Storage] ( June 01, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
