Sunday Jun 22, 2008
The recently shipped Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 enables to run management tiers (Satellite and Proxy) on Linux, in addition
to Solaris that came with xVM Ops Center 1.0. At the recently concluded
International Supercomputing conference (IS08) in Dresden, Germany, Sun
announced Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 along with the availability of a number of hardware and software for the HPC market, including
- the 72 port DDR
Infiniband Sun Data Center Switch 3x24,
- the 4 socket Sun Blade X6450
Intel Blade capable of delivering 7.37 Tflops peak performance in a
fully populated 6048 chassis,
- an integrated Sun HPC Software Linux
Edition 1.0,
- an integrated toolkit for developers Sun HPC Cluster Tools
8.0 containing the latest Open MPI 1.3, and
- Sun's scalable visualization
software, Sun Visualization Software 1.1.
All of the above were displayed at the ISC08 Sun booth last week and received lots of interest from customers and partners.
Here is a screenshot from our demo with xVM Ops Center 1.1 installed on CentOS 5
And another screenshot with xVM Ops Center provisioning Sun Grid Engine 6.1
See here and here for detailed instructions on provisioning CentOS 5 and Sun Grid Engine 6.1, respectively.
Wednesday Jun 11, 2008
After posting this blog entry, I pack my bags and head to the second biggest High Performance Computing event of the year, International Supercomputing' 08, in Dresden, Germany.
As is the tradition, we host The Sun HPC Consortium few days prior to the conference. The Consortium meetings are typically packed with attendees ranging from Sun HPC customers and partners, Sun field and product engineers, as well as marketing folks. Consortium agenda this year includes talks by Sun customers and partners, as well as Sun product engineering and marketing teams.
Last year, was my first time at the Consortium. It was held before Supercomputing' 07 in Reno, Nevada, USA. I found it to be an awesome opportunity to talk directly with customers on business problems they are solving with HPC clusters and their requirements for solutions to manage these clusters at peak performance and maximum thruput. Another fascinating aspect about last year's Consortium and Conference were Customer Whisper Suites, where key customers get a peek (hence probably the term "whisper" ) at our strategic roadmap and direction and we get a peek at business problems on their long-term radar. At some of these sessions, it was fascinating to hear how customers view HPC as providing them a competitive advantage in their market and more importantly, their plans for building the next generation computing infrastructure today, for the competitive edge they will achieve several years down the road. I look forward to Whisper Suites this year too.
After the consortium ends, the Supercomputing conference begins. As usual, Sun has many exciting events and announcements planned this year. Don't miss the Sun booth, where we will display our latest and greatest hardware and software technologies and solutions. You definitely don't want to miss Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 demo at the Sun booth showing Ops Center server on Red Hat Linux and showcases among many features, provisioning of (a) Firmware (b) CentOS 5 Operating System and (c) Sun's best-of-class Distributed Resource Management (DRM) product, Sun Grid Engine 6.1
Hope to see you at ISC08 !
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