How to Deploy and Validate Your Cluster

January 13, 2015

In the previous Cluster Lifecycle Management column, I discussed best practices for choosing the right vendor to build the cluster that meets your needs. Once y Read more…

NICS Tackles Big Science with Beacon

June 16, 2014

With support from the National Science Foundation and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the National Institute for Computational Science (NICS) is expandi Read more…

Accelerate Hadoop MapReduce Performance using Dedicated OrangeFS Servers

September 9, 2013

Recent tests performed at Clemson University achieved a 25 percent improvement in Apache Hadoop Terasort run times by replacing Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with an OrangeFS configuration using dedicated servers. Key components included extension of the MapReduce “FileSystem” class and a Java Native Interface (JNI) shim to the OrangeFS client. No modifications of Hadoop were required, and existing MapReduce jobs require no modification to utilize OrangeFS. Read more…

Simplifying Cluster Management…

April 22, 2013

Higher education and research institutes around the globe are investing in HPC clusters, yet there is an all-too-common oversight during the product acquisition process… Read more…

Appro Comes Up Multi-Million Dollar Winner in HPC Procurement for NNSA

June 8, 2011

For the second time in five years, Appro has been tapped to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration with HPC capacity clusters for the agency's Advanced Simulation and Computing and stockpile stewardship programs. The Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster 2 award is a two-year contract that will have the cluster-maker delivering HPC systems across three of the Department of Energy's national labs. The deal is worth tens of millions of dollars to Appro and represents the biggest contract in the company's 20-year history. Read more…

A New Generation of Smarter, Not Faster, Supercomputers

May 19, 2011

When it comes to the power-hungry systems of the pending era of exascale, next-generation systems will need to employ "brains" not just brawn to tackle new challenges. This is a concept Bill Nitzberg of Altair's PBS Works described to us this week as he highlighted the ways smarter management can tackle some of the greatest challenges ahead for billion-core machines. Read more…

Intel Pilots HPC Workstation Clustering Program

September 15, 2010

Cubicle Clustered Computing concept aimed at HPC's "missing middle." Read more…

Disposable HPC

May 26, 2010

The path to lower TCO may lead to throw-away nodes. Read more…

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