HPC Advisory Council » Dell http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog Your contact for High Performance Computing Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:15:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 New system arrived to our HPC center! http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/new-system-arrived-to-our-hpc-center/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/new-system-arrived-to-our-hpc-center/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:24:57 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=120 Recently we have added new systems into out HPC center, and you see the full list at http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/cluster_center.php.

The newest system is the “Vesta” system (and you can see Pak Lui, the HPC Advisory Council HPC Center Manager  standing next to it in the picture below). Vesta consist of six Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 nodes, each with four processors AMD Opteron 6172 (Magny-Cours) which mean 48 Cores per node and 288 cores for the entire system. The networking was provided by Mellanox, and we have plugged two adapters per node (Mellanox ConnectX®-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters). All nodes are connected via Mellanox 36-Port 40Gb/s InfiniBand Switch. Furthermore, each node has 128 GB, 1333 MHz memory to make sure we can really get the highest performance from this system.

 

Microsoft has provided us with Windows HPC 2008 v3 preview, so we can check the performance gain versus v2 for example. The system is capable of dual boot – Windows and Linux, and is now available for testing. If you would like to get access, just fill the form on the URL above.

 

 Vesta

In the picture – Pak Lui standing next to Vesta

 

I want to thank Dell, AMD and Mellanox for providing this system to the council!

 

Regards,

Gilad, HPC Advisory Council Chairman

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/new-system-arrived-to-our-hpc-center/feed/ 1 HPC Advisory Council at the 32nd HPC User Forum http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/hpc-advisory-council-at-the-32nd-hpc-user-forum/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/hpc-advisory-council-at-the-32nd-hpc-user-forum/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:49:37 +0000 brian http://hpcadvisorycouncil.mellanox.com/blog/?p=55 This week the 32nd HPC User Forum was held in Roanoke, Virginia. This was a great opportunity to meet, talk and hear from industry experts and end-users. There were very interesting sessions on the state of high-performance computing, the current problems, and what work is necessary to move to exascale computing. It was also a great opportunity to meet many of the HPC Advisory Council members.

The HPC Advisory Council had a session during the HPC User Forum, and I would like to thank the members that participated in the panel, and in particular to Jennifer Koerv (AMD), Donnie Bell (Dell), Sharan Kalwani (GM), Lynn Lewis (Microsoft), Stan Posey (Panasas), Lee Porter (ParTec) and Arend Dittmer (Penguin Computing).

Some of the talks at the User Forum were on HPC futures, not only on building the next PetaScale/ExaScale supercomputers, but how to make HPC easier and more productive. Platform Computing talked on HPC in a cloud and services, and NVIDIA on using GPUs. This is one of the main research activities right now in the HPC Advisory Council – enabling efficient HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) and smart scheduling strategies. Initial results are available on the HPC Advisory Council web, and you are encouraged to take a look (the focus at the event was on bioscience applications). We will extend the research to add QCD codes (quantum chemistry), with the help and support from Fermi National Lab.

We are having our first member’s conference call on May 4th, so don’t forget to accept the invite that you got, and if you did not get it, please let me know at hpc@mellanox.com.

Best Regards,

Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council Chairman

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/hpc-advisory-council-at-the-32nd-hpc-user-forum/feed/ 0 A Q&A Roundtable with the HPC Advisory Council http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/a-qa-roundtable-with-the-hpc-advisory-council/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/a-qa-roundtable-with-the-hpc-advisory-council/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:25:03 +0000 brian http://hpcadvisorycouncil.mellanox.com/blog/?p=53 We recently performed an interview with Addison Snell, General Manager at Tabor Research, where we highlighted the council’s activities for the past year, and provided some insight into our future direction.

Participating were:
Gilad Shainer – Chair, HPC Advisory Council
Brian Sparks – Media Relations Director, HPC Advisory Council
Gautam Shah – CEO, Colfax International
Scot Schultz – Senior Strategic Alliance Manager, AMD
Peter Lillian – Senior Product Marketing Manager, Dell

It’s amazing to me what the Council has been able to accomplish in under a year. Sometimes it all flies by so fast that you don’t have time to sit back and try to take it all in. Am I being a little grandiose here? Ya, sure, but a lot of folks from various companies have put in a huge amount of work…and it’s nice to see it all come into fruition where it benefits all members. Thank you everyone for helping the Council become what it is today.

You can find the whole interview here.

Talk with you soon,

Brian Sparks

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