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Last 20 Shows Green HPC Podcast Episode 6: Green technologies of the future There is a lot of activity — and a lot of hype! — today around the ways in which vendors and large supercomputing centers are trying to reduce their power usage while still getting useful work done. But there is only so much you can do adapting today’s technology, and to truly transform our approach to energy use in HPC we will need new technologies for operations and instrumentation, control system software, operating systems, job schedulers, computational algorithms, chip design, ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 5 of the green HPC podcast series: Turning up the heatTypical machine rooms today operate between 20 and 25 degrees C, about 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, an operating range comes from a time when it was the people in the room that needed cooling, not the computers. And even experienced datacenter managers spend a lot of time and energy building clusters out of servers with components they don’t need, in buildings that are way cleaner than they need to be.
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Live from the show floor with the InfiniBand Trade AssociationDuring SC09 week I grabbed some time at the end of a day to sit down with Bryan Sparks and Jim Ryan in their capacities as members of the InfiniBand Trade Association (they both have day jobs; Brian is with Mellanox and Jim works for Intel). During our conversation we touched on the IBTA’s ten-year [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Dell: a discussion about Cray, competition, and partnerships in HPCDuring SC week I sat down with Donnie Bell, senior manager in the enterprise marketing group, to talk about the announcement that Dell would be marketing a version of Cray’s CX1 to low-end HPC users. This audio is much more two way than some of the other conversations I’ve posted, because I was curious about [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Avere SystemsThis year, as with last year, I recorded a bunch of audio during my meetings at SC. Unlike last year, however, I didn’t get hardly anything up during the show. So over the next several days I’ll be mending that sin as I work through my audio backlog.
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Live from the show floor with Adaptive ComputingAs part of my audio catch-up from SC09 here is my conversation with Michael Jackson, the Co-founder, President, and COO of Adaptive Computing (formerly known as Cluster Resources). Michael is talking about Adaptive’s news during the week of the show: Moab’s connection with Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager and HP’s plans to resell Moab Adaptive Computing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with MicrosoftOn Monday while the exhibit floor was still under construction I stopped by Microsoft's booth, recorder in hand, to talk with Kyril Faenov, General Manager of Microsoft's Technical Computing Group. It was an interesting chance to talk not only about the beta release of the latest version of Microsoft HPC Server, but also to get a walk-through of Microsoft's strategy for HPC -- from the desktop to Top10 systems and everything in between -- including a petascale GPU system that the company is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Live from the show floor with Cycle ComputingOn Monday while the exhibit floor was still under construction I stopped by Cycle Computing's booth to talk with Jason Stowe, the CEO of Cycle Computing. To be honest, I went to the Cycle Computing booth thinking that there wasn't going to be much there of interest to me. But in one of those great surprises that keeps me coming back to SC each year, I came away thinking there was a lot to the company's technology. With customers from the very large (Lockheed Martin and Johnson&Johnson, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 4 of the green HPC podcast series: Stop pampering your processors!The use of commodity components in HPC has made supercomputers bigger and cheaper to buy while driving their operating costs through the roof. Where once stood 100 KW supercomputers, systems of 1,000 KW and up are common. Even if you aren't motivated to save the environment, you probably are getting a lot of pressure to reduce costs. But where to start? By not pampering your processors.
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Episode 3 of the green HPC podcast series: what’s in it for me?Despite the rhetoric, saving the environment doesn’t seem to be what motivates HPC people to go green. In episode three of the Green HPC Podcast series, we look at the reasons that people have for caring about green in HPC, and in particular what do large datacenters get out of going green. Change is hard, so why are datacenter owners and managers making the change?
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Episode 2 of the Green HPC podcast seriesIn the second episode of the Green HPC podcast series we talk to IT and HPC industry leaders about the primary drivers for the adoption of energy aware (“green”) computing practices in IT at large, and then home in on HPC and how the customers, workloads, and solutions differ between the two.
In the Green HPC podcast series we are examining the issues that datacenter managers and system designers are facing with high performance computing systems of all sizes today. Even if you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Introducing Episode 1 of the Green HPC Podcast SeriesIn the inaugural episode of the Green HPC podcast series we will examine the issues that datacenter managers and system designers are facing with high performance computing systems of all sizes today. Even if you aren’t “green at heart,” there are very practical and compelling reasons why a growing awareness of energy use in your datacenter -- how much, where it goes, and what it costs you -- is critical to your success.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Daily Takeout for January 15Today's takeout is all blue. First up is the call for proposals for hours on the upcoming Blue Waters. Then, IBM has a big win at the ECMWF. Finally, Intel is down in the dumps after the state of New York files suit for alleged antitrust behavior. Stories at: http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/09/nsf-solicits-for-blue-waters-allocations/, http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/07/european-weather-forecasting-center-sticks-with-ibm/, and http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/14/ny-investigates-possible-antitrust-beh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Daily Takeout for January 17In today's Takeout we talk about the acquisition of MySQL by Sun, and what it might mean for HPC. You can find the original story at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/16/sun-to-buy-mysql-for-1b/.
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Daily Takeout for January 22Today's takeout brings news of the release of the latest version of the "What is HPC?" presentation. Love it? Hate it? Let me know by sending me email at john@insidehpc.com. You can find more details on this alpha and the ideas behind the project on this page: http://insidehpc.com/hpccan.
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Daily Takeout for January 23It's installation Wednesday on the takeout, with news of SiCortex's first deskside customer ship, and Japan's new 95 TFLOPS Appro super. You can find the stories at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/22/sicortex-delivers-first-sc072-deskside/ and http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/22/university-of-tsukuba-selects-appro-xtreme-x/.
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Daily Takeout for January 24Today's Takeout is all SGI with news of new gear being installed in China and here at home at PSC. You can find the stories at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/21/sgi-installs-chinas-largest-shared-memory-machine/ and http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/17/psc-buys-new-sgi-supers/.
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Daily Takeout for January 25Today's Takeout brings news of Intel's great sales and bad Wall Street news and AMD's just bad news. Earnings seasons for the chip makers on the Daily Takeout. You can find the original stories at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/15/intels-profit-jumps-only-to-dissapoint-investors/ and http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/21/amd-reports-q4-losses-of-17b/.
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Daily Takeout for January 30In today's Takeout we think inside the box with a look at new announcements around Sun's Project Blackbox. You can find the original story at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/30/blackbox-gets-a-new-name-and-shiny-new-customers/.
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Daily Takeout for January 31In today's Takeout we talk a little about SGI's 14k core New Mexico system, and what it means to be up and running in 48 hours. You can find the original story at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/30/14k-core-nm-altix-up-in-48-hours/.
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