The second HPC Consortium day of presentations yesterday ranged from the petaflop terabyte view all the way down to the microprogramming details on the chip. It was quite a lot to take in, but really interesting. Presos were on the HPC center at Mississippi State, Dtrace, Thumper for big science, UltraSPARC T1 performance, OpenMP tuning, Opteron performance , Sun Studio, and more.  

There were also some presos by Sun partners: Etnus - memory debugging with TotalView; ExLudus file server; Allinea parallelization tools. These partners will be in the Sun booth on the exhibit floor.

Learned a new acronym: MAID - Massive Array of Inactive Disks.  This is what we used to call "No longer rotating disk storage". Essentially, its the archival storage that you no longer need but may need someday.

Now on to day 3 with lots more presos.

Some other Sun employees are also blogging about the HPC Consortium and SC|06:

 Marc Hamilton

Josh Simons

Aniruddh Dikhit