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1 day ago by SunConstellationSystem

Cables - What to do about them - Now that we've explained a little about the X6275 and QNEM leaf switch, how do we start to build up a simple, expandable, infiniband based compute cluster. Lets start small, and then grow over time. I'll only talk in terms of full racks, remember that a fully configu ...

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3 days ago by SunConstellationSystem

Another very important component of the Sun Constellation System is the Sun Blade 6048 Infiniband Quad Data Rate Switched Network Express Module, or QNEM for short. Designed to work in the 6048 rack, the QNEM is both a leaf switch for QDR IB, as well as a pass through GbE device. The QNEM has 30 por ...

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9 days ago by Ramoonus

The first official preview/beta of OpenSolaris 2010.02 has been released. The build is numbered 117. The OpenSolaris development package repository ( http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ ) has been updated to reflect the changes since OpenSolaris 2009.06 including builds snv_112 through snv_117 for both ...

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10 days ago by Ramoonus

Sun released version 8.2 of their HPC ClusterTools software. HPC ClusterTools provides a high-performance, production-quality Message Passing Interface (MPI) for Sun x86 and SPARC based systems. Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 software is an integrated toolkit that allows developers to create and tune Mess ...

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18 days ago by Ron

Dell bringt in seiner 11. Servergeneration die Tower-Server PowerEdge T410 und T710 sowie den Rack-Server R410 neu auf den Markt. Im Storage-Bereich stellt Dell das iSCSI-SAN-Array EqualLogic PS4000 und die NAS-Lösung PowerVault NX3000 neu vor. Darber hinaus kndigt Dell zusätzliche Virtualisierungsl ...

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34 days ago by Dan Reed

Long ago, we in HPC recognized the inevitability of the Attack of the Killer Micros, and with few exceptions, all of today's HPC systems are based on some variant of commodity microprocessors and their commodity cousins, GPUs. A similar revolution swept the secondary storage market. After all, the I ...

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37 days ago by RandomDude

OpenSolaris is known for being open source. In the InfiniBand area, the framework and most Upper Level Protocols (ULPs) were open source right from the start of OpenSolaris. However, we had to keep the Host Channel Adapter (HCA) drivers in closed source because of prior legal agreements. Well this t ...

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37 days ago by pascal.charest

The HPC (High Performance Computing) market is not really known for its Black Swan. The same interconnects have been available for years (Ethernet: ~30years, Infiniband: ~10years, Myrinet: ~12years, …) and the same player battle in the field (Cray : 1972, IBM: 1911, HP: 1939, …). Well, thats not so ...

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38 days ago by RandomDude

As noted here, the SRP target for COMSTAR just went back to Solaris Nevada, which is of course the base for future OpenSolaris releases. So now, Solaris can be an SRP target as well as an iSER target or an NFS/RDMA server. So you can get your blocks and files through all the popular flavors of RDMA ...

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43 days ago by dlawyer

A behind-the-firewall, soup-to-nuts enterprise-cloud-in-a-box or software stack, according to Intalio. Intalio today announced that it has built an enterprise cloud appliance that runs behind a company’s firewall in its data centers. Intalio|Cloud is a combination of hardware and software that the c ...

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