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Booting Over InfiniBand for Consolidation Savings (Blueprints) — November 2008
Labels: new, hpc, x64, blueprint
Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran (Blueprints) — June 2009
Labels: hpc, new, blueprint
Solid State Drives in HPC - Reducing the IO Bottleneck (Blueprints) — June 2009
Labels: hpc, new, blueprint
Sun's High Performance Computing Reference Architecture (Blueprints) — April 2009
Labels: new, blueprint, blueptints, hpc, lustre, infiniband, zfs, openstorage
Solving the HPC IO Bottleneck - Sun Lustre Storage System (Blueprints) — April 2009
Labels: new, blueprint, blueprints, hpc, ha, mds, ofs, infiniband, storage, cluster, tacc, lustre
Configuring Systems for High Bandwidth IO (Blueprints) — May 2009
Labels: new, blueprint, hpc, coolthreads, cmt, infiniband, fibre, channel, qfs, hba, qlc, san

HPC Related Blogs

I/O analysis using DTrace

by Senthil Ramanujam

Solaris's powerful and open sourced DTrace set of tools allows any user interested in solving I/O performance issues to observe how I/O are carried out by the Operating System and related drivers. The ever increasing set of DTrace features and adoption by various vendors is a strong proof of its usefulness.

Linux HPC Software Stack - Video Blog

by Larry McIntosh

Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 1.1

by Makia Minich

The announcement went out today on our mailing lists of the 1.1 release of the Sun HPC Software stack.

First, you might be asking, "What happened to 1.0?". Well, that was released and got some really good feedback, it just seems that the one who writes these blog entries never quite got around to actually writing one for 1.0. Please ridicule him as much as possible, since he really deserves it. But, all of this is in the past now; on to 1.1.

As some might know, 1.0 was based on CentOS 5.1. The 1.1 release brings us up to a CentOS 5.2 base, but also includes the option to deploy on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2 OS as well. We had heard a few requests for this inclusion, and here we go. Gone also is the "build-an-iso" option seen from 1.0 (if you don't know what that is, it's ok, we've all moved on). We now provide a new installation option based on Kickstart that allows a system administrator to perform a semi- or fully-automated installation of an RPM-based Linux system.

So what's new?

by Glenn Brunett

Today, there is no shortage of computing problems that are being tackled using high performance computers, interconnects, storage and data visualization, but we need to widen our views, remove our blinders, and begin to see HPC as it exists everywhere.

Building big grids

by Dave Levy

Both Storage and Systems are forecast to grow at double digit rates for the next few years, where as commercial IT is expected to standstill at best. Over 30% of CPUs are going to be bought by HPC solutions during this period and at the moment, 65% of the HPC market is educational and/or research institutes.



HPC Blueprints

Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster- Reference Configurations with Sun Fire X2200 M2 and X2100 M2 Servers (Blueprints) — April, 2007
Labels: hpc, cluster, x64, blueprint
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC (Blueprints) — May, 2008
Labels: storage, hpc, reference_architecture, blueprint
Sun N1 Grid Engine Software and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Super Computer Grid (Blueprints) — June, 2007
Labels: n1, x64, hpc, blueprint
The Tokyo Institute of Technology Supercomputer Grid- Architecture and Performance Overview (Blueprints) — February, 2007
Labels: hpc, x64, blueprint
Implementing the Lustre File System with Sun Storage (Blueprints) — June 2008
Labels: hpc, cluster, blueprint
Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster- Reference Configurations with Sun Fire X4100, X4200, and X4600 Servers (Blueprints) — April, 2007
Labels: hpc, x64, cluster, blueprint
Global Grid Connectivity Using Globus Toolkit With Solaris Operating System (Blueprints) — May, 2004
Labels: grid, hpc, blueprint
Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation (Blueprints) — May, 2007
Labels: x64, hpc, storage, blueprint
Booting Over InfiniBand for Consolidation Savings (Blueprints) — November 2008
Labels: new, hpc, x64, blueprint
Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran (Blueprints) — June 2009
Labels: hpc, new, blueprint
Solid State Drives in HPC - Reducing the IO Bottleneck (Blueprints) — June 2009
Labels: hpc, new, blueprint
Sun's High Performance Computing Reference Architecture (Blueprints) — April 2009
Labels: new, blueprint, blueptints, hpc, lustre, infiniband, zfs, openstorage
Solving the HPC IO Bottleneck - Sun Lustre Storage System (Blueprints) — April 2009
Labels: new, blueprint, blueprints, hpc, ha, mds, ofs, infiniband, storage, cluster, tacc, lustre
Configuring Systems for High Bandwidth IO (Blueprints) — May 2009
Labels: new, blueprint, hpc, coolthreads, cmt, infiniband, fibre, channel, qfs, hba, qlc, san

Other Technical Papers

Hadoop Primer (Blueprints) — July, 2008
Labels: storage, cluster, web, hpc, other


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