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Los Alamos Taps Seagate To Put Compute On Spinning Rust
High performance computing workloads simulating all manner of things can produce a veritable mountain of data that has to be sifted through. …
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QCI Bridging Quantum, Classical Divide at LANL
Sue Mniszewski has been a research staff member at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) for over forty years and in that time has watched several novel architectures come and go. …
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For Arm-Driven Supercomputing, Nvidia is Right on Time
While Marvell’s ThunderX family of server-class processors might not have taken high performance computing by storm from the outset, where there was interest and demand, it was fierce and committed. …
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Mythbusting Containers, The Los Alamos Way
As is the case with any new technology, there is a lot of hype and misunderstanding that comes along with something that actually improves some aspect of the system. …
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ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon
It might have been difficult to see this happening a mere few years ago, but the National Nuclear Security Administration and one of its key supercomputing sites are looking past Intel to Arm-based supercomputers in hopes of reaching efficiency and memory bandwidth targets needed for nuclear stockpile simulations. …
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Middle Ground Emerging for Next Generation HPC Storage
In a series of articles over the last two weeks, we have taken a close look at how the storage stack might be changing for next-generation high performance computing sites—not to mention similarly sized installations for very large-scale enterprise. …
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A New Object of Supercomputing Storage Interest
Last week, in an article on the pending death of the parallel file system, a note was made about an effort out of Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) called MarFS, which will serve as the intermediary solution to allow very large centers to take advantage of cloud-style object storage using a more familiar POSIX approach. …
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The Slow Death of the Parallel File System
Rumors of the death of the monolithic parallel file system are not exaggerated. …