Interview: Clustercorp Turns up the Volume on Rocks with New Round of Funding

In this podcast, I interview Clustercorp's newest employees: Mason Katz, CTO, and Greg Bruno, VP of Engineering. As key developers of the Rocks open source software, Bruno and Katz came over to Clustercorp last week to bolster the commercial version of Rocks.

As announced this morning, Clustercorp has just completed its first round of institutional funding, which it will use to scale development and accelerate its successful entry into the cloud management space.

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In this time-lapse video from SC2003, SDSC builds a live, 128-node Rocks cluster in the Sun booth in approximately one hour and forty minutes.

Inverview: Results from 2011 insideHPC Reader Survey

In the this slidecast, insideHPC President Rich Brueckner interviews Media Strategist Mike Bernhardt about findings from the 2011 insideHPC Reader Survey. We had an overwhelming response and I would like to thank you all for your input as we strive to improve our publication and broaden our global reach.

As for the results in a nutshell, we are now more confident than ever that insideHPC is one of the best ways for advertisers to reach the global community of HPC users. Download the PDF slides or the MP3 Podcast.

Grid Dynamics CEO Victoria Livschitz on Delivering Cloud Scalability

In this podcast, I interview Victoria Livschitz, President & CEO of Grid Dynamics. As an engineering company, Grid Dynamics has helped companies like eBay, Paypal, and Microsoft build next-generation, mission-critical systems that deliver extreme scalability and elasticity.

In our cloud computing survey of engineers, we learned that they are all about scalability and elasticity, the very things that make up our company's mission statement. There is a tremendous economic value that companies place on both. And until recently, until Cloud Computing, there was no technical way of getting there."

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Interview: How Taiwan's NIST Won the SC10 Student Cluster Competition

In this podcast, Professor Yeh-Ching Chung describes how his team from NTHU in Taiwan prepared themselves to win the SC10 Student Cluster Competition. His tips for futures teams are generous indeed, especially if you consider how his crew was able to crack 57,000 passwords for the contest, which was more than all seven of the other teams combined.

If you are a vendor, I encourage you to learn more about this contest and consider donating equipment for the SC11 Student Cluster Competition.

Submissions for the SC11 showdown open up on February 11, 2011. Student teams, it's time to start your engines because the champs are coming back!

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Developing Lustre in the HPC Community

In this podcast, Robert Read from Whamcloud discusses a new whitepaper available from the company entitled: Developing Lustre in the HPC Community. Written by Eric Barton and John K. Dawson, the paper describes some of the challenges facing the community in maintaining Lustre as a production-quality file system while enhancing it to meet the demands of exascale computing.

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Interview: Spectra Logic Storage Solutions for Petascale and Beyond

In this webcast, I interview Molly Rector, VP of Marketing and Product Management at Spectra Logic. Download the MP3 * Download Slides (PDF)

Download the Intersect360 Research white paper: The Role of Active Archive for Petascale and Beyond.

Interview: Programming for RDMA Using OFA Software

In this podcast, I interview Rupert Dance and Tom Stachura from the Open Fabrics Alliance. OFA has a new course offering designed to help you take full advantage of RDMA to improve your data center's performance and cost effectiveness. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a powerful programming paradigm finding widespread adoption in many large systems – from high performance computing to enterprise data centers.

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