HPC
Embedded dCache Proven at CERN Scale
For some companies and research centers, managing access to massive pools of stored data across different systems has been a persistent challenge, especially with variations in file systems. …
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Compute
Procter and Gamble Moves Closer to GPU Computing
For a company that was formed well before electricity, consumer products company, Procter and Gamble, has continued to modernize. …
Cloud
Qumulo File System Tackles Petabyte Scale Data Management
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
Control
SUSE Shares View on HPC to Enterprise Transition
Linux is far and away the dominant operating system inside the largest supercomputing sites with 485 of the Top 500 list of fastest machines sporting some variant. …
Compute
AMD Hints At Future HPC Push
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …
Enterprise
Where is Lustre Finding its Brightest Shine?
Lustre will continue to grow in enterprise settings, but as we have described in part one and part two of this extended series on the state of the HPC-centric file system, it appears it will probably not have a sudden, meteoric rise to the top of the large enterprise list if users are not already invested in high performance computing infrastructure and applications. …
Compute
OpenPower Lays Out HPC Roadmap
When the OpenPower Foundation was formed a year and a half ago, IBM had a number of reasons, driven by enlightened self-interest, for fostering a partnerships with Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
Enterprise
What Stands in the Way of Enterprise Lustre Adoption?
As we described in detail in the previous section of this series on the state of Lustre and the roadmap for the parallel file system, beyond traditional HPC, the file system has some weaknesses for large-scale enterprise shops. …
Enterprise
Tracing the Enterprise Path for Lustre
While it is generally considered stable and reliable in large-scale environments, Lustre is not without a few key weaknesses, which the small vendor community supporting it are often first to point out. …