Sunday, July 31, 2011

Hot Interconnects Conference Looks to the Future of Networks

In this podcast, the Co-Chairs on the Hot Interconnects Symposium discuss their program agenda and why it continues to be the premier international forum high performance networking at all scales. The event takes place August 24-26 in Santa Clara, CA.
Two days of technical sessions led by Fabrizio Petrini from IBM TJ Watson, our 2011 General Chair, plus a day of tutorials will keep you on top of the latest industry developments and academic laboratories. Our objective is to address the Networking and Supercomputing families. This year we are proud to have Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois (UIUC), and Patrick Geoffray, Myricom, as our 2011 IEEE Hot Interconnects Program Co-Chairs.

Featured Keynotes:

  • The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Network and Message Unit. Philip Heidelberger, Research Staff Member at IBM

  • The Computer that is the Network: A Future History of Big Systems. Greg Papadopoulos, Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates; formerly CTO, Sun Microsystems

  • Will Interconnect Help or Limit the Future of Computing? Shekhar Borkar, Intel Fellow and director of Extreme-scale Technologies at Intel Labs


The two-day symposium will be followed by a day of software tutorials. Register now.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Interview: TOP500.org Looks at Fujitsu K Supercomputer

In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interview the co-founders of the TOP500 list: Hans Meuer and Jack Dongarra. The discussion focuses on history of the TOP500 and the current #1 system on the list, the K Computer from Fujitsu in Japan.

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Gluster - A Better Way to Do Storage

In this slidecast, Tom Trainer and John Kreisa present Gluster - A Better Way to Do Storage.

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Aspera High Speed Data Transfer Software

In this slidecast, Aspera's Bhavic Vyas describes the company's high speed data transfer software.


We’re thrilled to be recognized as a leading file transport provider in cloud computing,” said Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera. “Organizations moving to the cloud have consistently chosen Aspera to efficiently and reliably manage the movement of Big Data. This award validates Aspera’s ongoing work to optimize global workflows for cloud adopters.”


Read the Full Story or download a whitepaper on Aspera technology for ultra high-speed WAN data movement with leading storage systems.

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