Reprints from my posting to SAN-Tech Mailing List and ...

2011/12/22

[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
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2012/04/10
[san-tech][03516] "Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration", April 9, 2012
  Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:34:42 +0900
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ちょっとした驚きです。

"Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
 December 21, 2011
  http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html

2011/12/21

[san-tech][03428] Slide: 5th Extremely Large Databases Conference (2011/10/18, 19)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:29 +0900
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2011年 10月 18、19日に開催された

5th Extremely Large Databases Conference
 October 18-19, 2011
  http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2011/

の講演資料が公開されています。

[san-tech][03427] Re: International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:27:31 +0900
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[san-tech][03425] International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, 
Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)
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LTO Generation 8 (最大 32TB) までのロードマップの発表が 2010年 4月 14日
なので、128TBの出荷は・・・

"LTO Program Extends Product Roadmap Through Generation 8"
 April 14, 2010
  http://ultrium.com/pdf/LTO%20Roadmap%20Extension%20041410.pdf

LTO Roadmap
  http://ultrium.com/technology/roadmap.html
  http://ultrium.com/technology/LTO_8GenChart_2011.jpg

[san-tech][03425] International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap, Part I: Applications & Systems (2011/11/30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:31:52 +0900
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 Information Storage Industry Consortiumから、2011年 11月 30日に

International Magnetic Tape Storage Roadmap
Part I: Applications & Systems (60p)
 NOVEMBER 2011
  http://www.insic.org/news/A&S%20Roadmap.pdf

が公開されました。

[san-tech][03424] Slide: 22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:25:09 +0900
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2011年 11月 29, 30日に開催された

22nd Machine Evaluation Workshop
 29-30 November 2011
  http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/disco/mew22/index.html

の講演資料が公開されています (一部非公開)。

2011/12/16

[san-tech][03423] "NILFS 2.0.22 was released", Jun 19, 2011 JST.

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:29:38 +0900
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国産 (?) Log Structured File System: NILFSも継続してますね:

NILFS
  http://www.nilfs.org/ja/index.html
  http://www.nilfs.org/en/index.html

[san-tech][03422] PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version 2.1, 2011-10-13

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:02:37 +0900
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[san-tech][03429] Re: PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System, Version2..1, 2011-10-13
  Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:32:30 +0900
> "Los Alamos and EMC collaborate to advance high-performance computing"
>  December 21, 2011
>   http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/los_alamos_emc_collaborate_to_advance_high_performance_computing.html
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ちょっとマニアックかもしれませんが、PLFS, a Parallel Log-structured File System
の開発が進行しています:

PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications
  http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/
"PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications"
 John Bent, Garth Gibson, Gary Grider, Ben McClelland,
 Paul Nowoczynski, James Nunez, Milo Polte, Meghan Wingate
 SC '09
  http://institute.lanl.gov/plfs/plfs.pdf

2011/12/11

[san-tech][03421] Research Note: Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:11:39 +0900
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こちらも Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) ワークショップです。
Research Noteが公開されています:

2nd International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance
Computer Systems (PMBS11), November 13th 2011
  http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~sdh/pmbs11/PMBS11/Workshop_Schedule.html

[san-tech][03420] Paper: 1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases at SC '11(2011/11/18)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:58:04 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていたこちらのワークショップの
ペーパーが公開されています:

1st Workshop on High-Performance Computing meets Databases
 November 18, 2011
  http://hpcdb.org/program

[san-tech][03419] "2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments", ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:01 +0900
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ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc.) Technical Committee (TC) 9.9 から以下のホワイトペーパが
公開されてました:

"2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments"
 Whitepaper prepared by ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9
 Mission Critical Facilities, Technology Spaces, and Electronic Equipment
 2011/09/23
  http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/documents/ASHRAE%202011%20Liquid%20Cooling%20Whitepaper.pdf

[san-tech][03418] Slide, Paper: 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop at SC '11 (2011/11/13)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:27:19 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) で開催されていた:

6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
 held in conjunction with Supercomputing '11
 November 13, 2011
  http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW11/

のペーパーと講演資料が上記 Webサイトで公開されています。

[san-tech][03417] Slide: OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) at Supercomputing 11 (SC '11)

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:47:35 +0900
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Supercomputing 2011 (SC '11) での、OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) メンバー
発表資料が公開されました:

SC11
This folder contains the presentations by members at Supercomputing 2011
(SC11) in November, 2011.
  https://www.openfabrics.org/resources/document-downloads/presentations/cat_view/57-ofa-documents/23-presentations/39-trade-shows/72-sc11.html
※ブラウザーによってはアクセス出来ない場合があります。

2011/12/09

[san-tech][03416] IBM GPFS Native RAID & USENIX LISA '11

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:46:00 +0900
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2012/12/03
"Managing multi-petabyte disk systems using GPFS Native RAID"
 Crispin Keable - IBM
 23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23), 27, 28/11/2012
  https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/uploads/mew23/keable.pdf

23rd Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop (MEW23) - Agenda (Slides)
  https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/mew23?agenda=1
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2012/04/21
[san-tech][03535] IBM GPFS V3.5 Release, EMEA, April 10, 2012
  Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:47:04 +0900
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現在開催中の USENIX LISA '11 (Dec. 4 - 9, 2011) の Technical Session
INVITED TALKS II, December 8で発表されている

"GPFS Native RAID for 100,000-Disk Petascale Systems"
 Veera Deenadhayalan, IBM Almaden Research Center
  http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/tech/slides/deenadhayalan.pdf

[san-tech][03415] pNFS in Technology Preview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:41:57 +0900
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先頃発表された Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2に pNFS関連が含まれています

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 - What's New
  http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RHEL_6_2_features_benefits.pdf

Parallel NFS (pNFS) in Technology Preview
Transfer rates faster than NFS support
*) pNFS is an extension of NFS that provides significantly larger data
   transfer rates compared to the traditional NFS architectures. This
   is achieved by processing the meta-data (a typical bottle neck for
   I/O throughput) separately from the actual data. By separating
   the meta-data and the data paths, pNFS allows clients to access
   storage devices directly and in parallel. pNFS is a part of standard
   NFS version 4.1 specification.
*) Support for pNFS is limited to client-side functionality for file
   layout only.

[san-tech][03414] TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720 (12-TB, SLC, 1U), December 6, 2011

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:02:33 +0900
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 Twitterで URLは流したのですが、

"TMS introduces the High Availability, High Performance RamSan-720
 (12-TB, SLC, 1U) Flash storage system that scales to 500-TB within a single rack"
 December 6, 2011
  http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/149

  "The RamSan-720 offers 12 TB of Flash capacity, 5 GB/s of bandwidth,
   and no single point of failure. Its proprietary 2D Flash RAID
   technology delivers a new level of High Availability and data
   protection for mission-critical data sets."

2011/12/08

[san-tech][03413] Re: Slide: HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011 (2011/12/06, 07)

Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:58:05 +0900
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2011年 12月 6、7と開催された:

HPC Advisory Council Stanford Workshop 2011, December 6-7, 2011
  http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/Stanford-Workshop/index.php

の講演資料が公開されています。

2011/12/04

[san-tech][03410] Slide: October 2011 Open Networking Summit (2011/10/17 - 19)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:19:50 +0900
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 2011年 10月 17日~19日に開催された

October 2011 Open Networking Summit
  http://opennetsummit.org/past_conferences.html

の講演資料等が上記 Webページで公開されています。

Two tutorials
Keynote Session
Power of SDN: Shaping the Future
SDN for Data Center Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
SDN for Enterprise Networks: Technology, Applications, Markets
Keynote and ONF Information session
SDN for Service Provider Networks: Technology, Applications, and Markets
Wrap up Panel: Opportunities and Challenges with OpenFlow/SDN in the Market Place

[san-tech][03409] "日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU(国際電気通信連合)の国際規格として採用"、2012/12/02

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:07:50 +0900
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株式会社日立製作所と株式会社日立プラントテクノロジーのプレスリリースです:


"日立が実証したデータセンタ冷却方式の選定基準が ITU(国際電気通信連合)
 の国際規格として採用"
 2011年12月2日
 株式会社日立製作所
 株式会社日立プラントテクノロジー
  http://www.hitachi-pt.co.jp/news/2011/pdf/20111202.pdf

[san-tech][03407] Slide: Server Design Summit 2011 (2011/11/29, 30)

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:26:44 +0900
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 2011年 11月 29、30日に開催された:

Server Design Summit 2011
  http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/

講演資料が公開されています。

Get the Server Design Summit Proceedings
  http://www.serverdesignsummit.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/Array_Pages/Entrance_Proceedings.html

[san-tech][03405] Re: 東大京大でスパコンメーカ交代

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:48:57 +0900
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京大次期スーパーコンピュータシステムについて Registerの記事です:

"Cray notches another XE6-Cascades super deal",
 Dancing the Japanese two-step,
 29th November 2011,
 The Register,
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/cray_xe6_cascade_super_kyoto_university/

2011/10/07

[san-tech][03398] "OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team from PLX Technology", 2011-10-05

Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:23:22 -0400
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"OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team from PLX Technology"
 Experienced R&D Team and Access to Intellectual Property to Speed Time
 to Market and Reduce Development Costs for Company’s Next Generation
 SSD Solutions
 2011-10-05
  http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/453

  "... today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire
   the UK Design Team and certain assets from PLX Technology, further
   strengthening the company’s global research and development team."

  "PLX's UK Design Team has built a reputation for designing innovative
   and reliable system-on-chip (SOC) solutions and the acquired
   engineering team’s expertise provides OCZ with additional resources
   for controller design. Through the acquisition of the engineering
   team and the license of intellectual property (IP), OCZ will be able
   to accelerate solid state drive development, reducing its time
   to market for next generation SSD products, while also reducing
   development costs."

2011/10/05

[san-tech][03396] "Red Hat to Acquire Gluster", October 4, 2011

Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:16:23 -0400
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"Red Hat to Acquire Gluster"
 *) Ushers in New Era of Software-Based Open Storage Platforms to
   Unify On-Premise and Cloud
 *) Adds Scale-Out Management of Unstructured Data to Red Hat Portfolio
   with Gluster's Disruptive Open Source Storage Solutions
 October 4, 2011
  http://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/press-release.html
  http://www.gluster.com/2011/10/04/red-hat-to-acquire-gluster/

  "... today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement
   to acquire Gluster, Inc., a leading provider of scale-out,
   open source storage solutions for standardizing the management
   of unstructured data. With this acquisition,"

2011/10/03

[san-tech][03395] Fusion-io: ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, Oct. 3, 2011

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:55:29 -0400
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Fusion-ioからのプレスリリースです:

"New Storage Class Memory Beats Fusion ioDrive On All Metrics"
 Next-Generation Enterprise Flash Product Delivers More Capacity,
 Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Better Performance, All at
 a Lower Cost: Introducing the New ioDrive2 from Fusion-io
 Oct. 3, 2011
  http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/new-storage-class-memory-beats-fusion-iodrive-on-all-metrics/
  http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1g1rrm/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioDrive2_FINAL.pdf

  "... today announced the next evolution of its ioMemory platform
   for powering application acceleration and data center optimization.
   The company that broke performance barriers, brought you the first
   enterprise MLC products, dramatically enhanced reliability metrics
   for enterprise flash, and redefined server side flash has done it
   all over again with the new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo."
.....
*) System level integration with the latest Fusion-io VSL 3.0 software
   subsystem

Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of the Universe, Sep. 29, 2011

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"Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of
 the Universe Announced by Authors from University of California,
 New Mexico State University"
 September 29, 2011
  http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/News.html

  "Two research articles describing the most accurate cosmological
   simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of
   the universe yet made" ... "The results calculated by the Bolshoi
   simulation - spectacular visualizations of what the universe was
   like at time steps 40 million or 80 million years apart - are
   being made publicly available to the world’s astronomers and
   astrophysicists..."

[san-tech][03394] Violin Memory: Violin 6000 Series & Violin 3220, Sep. 27, 2011

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:13:40 -0400
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2012/04/20
[san-tech][03534] Violin Memory vRAID Technology
  Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:29:45 +0900
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Violin Memoryから新シリーズと新製品の発表がありました:

"VIOLIN MEMORY LAUNCHES POWERFUL NEW PRODUCTS FOR CIOs TO BUILD
 THE ALL-SILICON DATA CENTER"
 "Rack in a Box" Reliability and Consolidation Advantages Poised to
 End the Reign of Mechanical Storage Arrays in the Data Center
 September 27, 2011
  http://www.violin-memory.com/news/press-releases/6000-2/

  "... today introduced the Violin 6000 Series flash Memory Arrays,
   the industry's first all-silicon storage systems with
   the reliability, performance and economics to be deployed
   as mission-critical primary storage."
.....
  "Violin also unveiled the new Violin 3220, doubling the storage
   capacity of the 3200 Series to 20 terabytes (TB) of SLC per
   3U shelf."

[san-tech][03393] QLogic: Highest Density, Most Flexible FC/FCoE Top of Rack (TOR) Switch, Sep 28, 2011

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:14:06 -0400
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QLogicからのプレスリリースです:

"QLogic Universal Access Point Switch Offers Highest Density,
 Most Flexible, Converged Solution for Storage and Data Networks"
 QLogic Universal Access Point Switches and iSR intelligent Storage
 Routers Provide Fabric Freedom to Connect Any Server, Any Network,
 Any Storage on Any Switch Port
 Sep 28, 2011
  http://ir.qlogic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=85695&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1610757

2011/10/02

[san-tech][03391] DDN: SFA10Kシリーズ強化 (SFA10K-X & SFA10K-E), 09.20.11

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:44:16 -0400
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DDNが SFA10Kシリーズを強化しました:

"DataDirect Networks (DDN) Delivers Highest Big Data Performance with
 SFA10K-X, World's Fastest Integrated Block and File Storage Appliance"
 Award-Winning DDN Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) Technology Embeds
 Applications and File Systems While Optimizing Bandwidth, IOPS and
 Capacity Utilization for Cloud and Content
 09.20.11
  http://www.ddn.com/press-releases/2011/datadirect-networks-ddn-delivers-highest-big-data-performance-sfa10k-x-world%E2%80%99s-f
  http://www.ddn.com/sites/default/files/10KXPR_FINAL.pdf

  "... today unveiled the Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) 10K-X,
   a leading integrated storage appliance that maximizes application
   performance while minimizing total cost of ownership for Big Data,
   cloud, and content-intensive environments."

[san-tech][03390] NetApp: 55PB (1TB/sec) Storage for LLNL Sequoia Supercomputer (20PF)'s Lustre, Sep. 28, 2011

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:59:39 -0400
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NetApp Eシリーズが、LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
で構築中の理論性能 20PF Supercomputer: Sequoia (IBM BlueGene/Q) 用
Lustre: 55PB (1TB/sec) のストレージに選ばれました:

"U.S. Department of Energy Selects NetApp as the Storage Foundation
 for One of the World's Most Powerful Supercomputers"
 September 28, 2011
  http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20110928-990734.html

  "... NetApp today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy
   (DoE) has selected the company to provide the storage foundation
   for its Sequoia supercomputer."
.....
  "To store and manage all of this critical data, LLNL will
   leverage a solution built on 55PB of NetApp E-Series storage
   that will provide over 1TB/sec to the Lustre file system."

[san-tech][03389] "Lustre 2.1 Released", September 30th 2011, Whamcloud Press Release

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:02:10 -0400
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Whamcloudから、Lustre 2.1リリースアナウンスがありました:

"Lustre 2.1 Released"
 September 30th 2011, Whamcloud Press Release
  http://www.whamcloud.com/news-and-events/lustre-2-1-released/

  "Whamcloud, a venture-backed company formed from a worldwide network
  of high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, today
  announced the release of Lustre 2.1 with better control over
  virtualized storage and wider platform support. It is the first full
  release of Lustre with Whamcloud and OpenSFS hosting the master
  codeline. Significant in this release, contribution rules have been
  greatly simplified to more openly encourage community contributions."

[san-tech][03388] Slide: European Lustre Workshop 2011 (2011/09/26, 27)

Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:59:08 -0400
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2011年 9月 26, 27日に開催された、

European Lustre Workshop 2011
 September 26-27, Paris, Pullman Paris Bercy Hotel
  http://www.eofs.eu/index.php?id=5

の講演資料が上記 Webサイトで公開されています。

PDF版 Agenda:
  http://www.eofs.eu/fileadmin/workshop2011/agenda_workshop_2011.pdf

2011/09/27

[san-tech][03386] "SDSC Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud", 09.22.11

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:13:57 +0900
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SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) のプレスリリースです:

"SDSC Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud"
 Web-based System Offers High Durability, Security, and Speed
 for Diverse User Base
 09.22.11
  http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR092211_sdsccloud.html

  "The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of
   California, San Diego, today announced the launch of what is
   believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system
   in the U.S., specifically designed for researchers, students,
   academics, and industry users who require stable, secure,
   and cost-effective storage and sharing of digital information,
   including extremely large data sets."

2011/09/23

[san-tech][03385] Slide: HEC FSIO 2011 Workshop (2011/0807 - 10)

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:49:34 +0900
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2011年 8月 7 ~ 10日に開催された、

High-End Computing File Systems and I/O (HEC FSIO) 2011 Workshop
 Sunday, August 7, 2011 ? Wednesday, August 10, 2011
  http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2011/

のプレゼンテーション資料がほぼ揃いました。

2011/09/21

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace", July 14, 2011

"DOD Announces First Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"

  "The Department of Defense released today the DoD Strategy for
   Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC).  It is the first DoD unified strategy
   for cyberspace and officially encapsulates a new way forward for
   DoD's military, intelligence and business operations."
.....
  ""The cyber threats we face are urgent, sometimes uncertain and
   potentially devastating as adversaries constantly search for
   vulnerabilities," said Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III.
  "Our infrastructure, logistics network and business systems are heavily
   computerized.  With 15,000 networks and more than seven million
   computing devices, DoD continues to be a target in cyberspace for
   malicious activity.""


"Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace"
 July 2011

[san-tech][03382] OpenStackの大容量ストレージサービス、Swiftの仕組みと使い方、2011/08/05, 09/20, TechTarget

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:40:52 +0900
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NTTデータの伊藤雅典さん連載の

OSSクラウド基盤 OpenStackの全て [全 7回]、TechTarget
  http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/1101/13/news06.html

から、

"OpenStackの大容量ストレージサービス、Swiftの仕組み" [第 6回]
 2011年08月05日 09時00分 UPDATE,
 伊藤雅典,NTTデータ, TechTarget
  http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/1108/05/news01.html

  "OpenStackのオブジェクトストレージサービス「Swift」の特徴、
   アーキテクチャ、利用するためのツールを紹介。Swiftは専用
   アプリケーションを用いて、大容量データを高速に取り扱うのに
   最適化されたサービスである"

  " 今回から2回にわたり、OpenStack ObjectStorage(Swift)の全体像と
   具体的な利用手順を紹介する。今回はSwiftの特徴、アーキテクチャ、
   利用するためのツールなどの全体的な紹介を行い、次回は具体的な
   利用手順について解説する。"

[san-tech][03381] Intel Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) に関する Blog, Sep. 15, 2011, Research@Intel

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:22:02 +0900
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[san-tech][03564] "Open-Silicon Announces Industry’s First Hybrid Memory Cube Controller IP", June 4, 2012
  Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:39:56 +0900
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IDF 2011でデモンストレーションされた Intel Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
についての Blogです:

"Reinventing DRAM with the Hybrid Memory Cube"
 September 15, 2011. Bryan Casper, Research@Intel
  http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/hmc.php

  "Today, Intel CTO Justin Rattner is demonstrating the Hybrid Memory
   Cube, the fastest and most efficient Dynamic Random Access Memory
   (DRAM) ever built. I want to give you some background on how
   and why we collaborated with Micron on this new memory technology."
.....

[san-tech][03379] Cache IQ:新興 NAS加速化キャッシュプラットフォーム, Sep. 19, 2011

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:31:39 +0900
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Cache IQ社が少しだけ製品アナウンスをしました:

"Cache IQ Announces Industry's First Smart NAS Acceleration Solution"
 RapidCache dramatically increases application performance and tames
 the out of control growth of network attached storage
 September 19, 2011
  http://www.cacheiq.com/about/company-news/press-releases-2/

  "Cache IQ, an enterprise storage solutions company, announced today
   the limited release of their RapidCache solution. This intelligent,
   high-performance network attached storage (NAS) caching appliance
   delivers enhanced performance to I/O intensive applications while
   relieving overburdened storage subsystems. RapidCache identifies
   applications' active data sets, and then uses a combination of
   DRAM and SSDs to dramatically improve performance."

[san-tech][03378] ScaleMP Announces Strategic Collaboration with AMD, Sep. 20, 2011

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:59:44 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
ScaleMPから AMD公式サポートのアナウンスがありました:

"ScaleMP Announces Strategic Collaboration with AMD:
 vSMP Foundation for AMD-Based Servers"
 Users can scale servers based on the AMD Opteron platform beyond
 four processors and 512GB RAM using vSMP Foundation
 September 20, 2011
  http://www.scalemp.com/scalemp-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-amd-vsmp-foundation-for-amd-based-servers

  "ScaleMP, ..., today announced a strategic collaboration with AMD
   for vSMP Foundation to support AMD Opteron processor-based servers.
   The collaboration enables users to scale AMD-based servers beyond
   four processors and create AMD Opteron processor-based systems
   with up to 512 processors and 64TB of memory."

2011/09/19

[san-tech][03377] デル、最高45℃での使用も保証で外気冷却を支援、2011/08/24、@IT

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:40:02 +0900
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2012/03/25

[san-tech][03488] Slide: Green Grid Forum 2012 (March 6-7, 2012) & Free Cooling Map Update
--------------------------------------------------
デル株式会社のプレスリリースリストには見当たりませんが、

"複数の既存サーバやストレージを対象に
 デル、最高45℃での使用も保証で外気冷却を支援"
 2011/08/24、@IT
  http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/201108/24/dell.html

  " デルは8月24日、事業者や企業のデータセンターにおける外気冷却への
   取り組みを支援するため、同社の法人向けIT機器の保証でカバーする
   温度範囲を拡大したと日本で発表した。1機種に限定したものでなく、
   同社の複数の既存サーバ、ストレージ、スイッチなどに適用される。

    具体的には、年間の合計稼働時間のうち、10%までを室温5~40℃、
   湿度5~85%、1%までを室温-5~45℃、湿度5~90%、そして残りの時間を
   10~35℃、湿度10~80%の範囲で動かす場合、これがデルの製品保証範囲に
   含まれるというもの。常時45℃の稼働を保証するというものではない。
   目的が外気冷却の活用支援だからだ。"

複数の既存IT機器を対象製品として認定した:
  http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/201108/24/l_dell02.jpg

※積算温度モニタシステムみたいなものが必要になりそう。

[san-tech][03375] Pure Storage: the First All-Flash Enterprise Array, August 23, 2011

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:30:46 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

1ヶ月余り前の発表ですが、All-Flash Arrayストレージシステムメーカー
からのプレスリリースです;

"Pure Storage Breaks the Cost Barrier to Mainstream Flash Adoption
 in the Data Center with the First All-Flash Enterprise Array"
 All-Flash Array is 10x Faster, 10x More Power and Space Efficient,
 and Less Expensive than Traditional Disk-Centric Arrays
 August 23, 2011
  http://www.purestorage.com/our-company/pr-2011-08-23_2.html

[san-tech][03374] "Kaminario and Fusion-io Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise-class All Solid-State SAN Storage", Sept. 13, 2011

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:21:05 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Kaminarioという All Solid-state SAN Storage Solutionsメーカーと
Fusion-ioとの協業プレスリリースです
※Kaminarioの新製品プレスリリースも同日です (後述します)。

"Kaminario and Fusion-io Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise-class
 All Solid-State SAN Storage"
 Kaminario K2 storage embeds Fusion-io technology, addressing
 enterprises' I/O- and latency-bound applications
 Sept. 13, 2011
  http://www.kaminario.com/company/press-releases/Kaminario_and_Fusion-io_Collaborate_to_Deliver_Enterprise-class_All_Solid-State_SAN_Storage
※Fusion-ioからのプレスリリースはありません。

  "Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance, all solid-state
   SAN storage for accelerating critical business applications,
   today announced that it is teaming up with Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO),
   a provider of a shared data decentralization platform, to develop
   and market the next-generation Kaminario K2 storage, the industry's
   first all solid-state SAN storage."
.....
  "As part of the companies' collaboration, Kaminario will incorporate
   the Fusion ioDrive Duo as a memory accelerator in its all
   solid-state SAN storage and its Scale-out Performance Storage
   Architecture (SPEAR). Kaminario and Fusion-io will also team up
   to bring the Kaminario K2 family of products into joint customer
   environments. These combined efforts reinforce the companies'
   commitment to remove the barriers enterprises currently face
   in obtaining high performance and highly available SAN storage
   at a price point that makes sense."

[san-tech][03373] Quantum to Expand StorNext Appliance Family, Sep 08, 2011

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:21:17 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

Quantumから StorNextアプライアンスがアナウンスされました:
※StorNext Applianceは初めてでは?

"Quantum to Expand StorNext Appliance Family to Simplify Big Data
 File Sharing and Archiving"
 New offerings will allow industry-proven StorNext software
 to deliver unparalleled data management performance, flexibility
 and cost-effectiveness
 Sep 08, 2011
  http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=69905&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=1604740

  "Quantum Corp. ....., today announced it is adding new products to
   its StorNext appliance family. The expanded family will use the power
   of StorNext and market-leading hardware to offer predictable
   high-performance file sharing and archiving in purpose-built
   configurations of metadata controllers, expansion appliances and disk,
   and archive enabled libraries."

High-performance metadata controller
*)The recently announced StorNext M330 is the first in a series of
  metadata controller appliances from Quantum.

Expansion appliances and disk
*)StorNext G300 Scale-Out Gateway Appliance
*)The scalable StorNext QM1200, QS1200 and QD6000 Storage Systems
  StorNext QM1200 Storage System will be ideal as fast disk for metadata.
  The StorNext QD6000 will scale to over 1 PB of data in a single array
※Expansion appliances and diskの URLsは未だのようです。

Fast, economical archives
*)The StorNext Archive Enabled Libraries can be purchased with as few as
  41 activated slots or as many as 5,000 activated slots, protecting
  data sets that can range from 60 TB to over 7.5 PB.

[san-tech][03372] IBM 100 petaOPS Supercomputer出願特許公開、September 8, 2011

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:07:59 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
IBMが 2011年 1月 10日に出願した特許書類が、2011年 9月 8日に公開され
ました (特許成立ではありません):

Title: MULTI-PETASCALE HIGHLY EFFICIENT PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER
United States Patent Application: 20110219208
Kind Code: A1
Inventors: Asaad; Sameh ; et al.
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
Publication Date: September 8, 2011
Filed Date: January 10, 2011
  http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20110219208&OS=20110219208&RS=20110219208
※↑The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Imagesをクリックすると出願書類イメージとなるはずですが、私の場合
ブラウザー (Chrome) との相性問題か、分量の問題かで上手くいきません。
※A4 (Letter?) で、649枚です。460枚程度は図表です。
※後述する民間サイトでも PDFファイルを入手出来ますが、画像 PDFなので
単語検索出来ません。上記 URLはフラット HTMLです (ただし読み難い)。

[san-tech][03371] Broadcom to Acquire NetLogic Microsystems, September 12, 2011

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:48:55 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
既にご存じの方も多いと思いますが:

"Broadcom to Acquire NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., A Leader in
 Network Communications Processors"
 September 12, 2011
  http://www.netlogicmicro.com/News/pr/2011/11-09-12merger.asp
  http://investor.broadcom.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=604481

  "Broadcom Corporation ....., and NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
   (Nasdaq: NETL), a leader in high performance intelligent
   semiconductor solutions for next generation networks, today
   announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement.
   Under the agreement, NetLogic Microsystems shareholders will
   receive $50 per share in a transaction of approximately
   $3.7 billion, net of cash assumed."

[san-tech][03369] 小型のシリコンフォトニクス光源を開発、2011/09/16、富士通

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:44:00 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
日本のメーカーも頑張っています:


"CPU間の大容量光インターコネクトに向けて小型のシリコンフォトニクス光源を開発"
 光送受信器の送信部小型化と温度調整機構の不要化により、
 大容量光インターコネクトの実現に一歩前進
 2011年9月16日
  http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2011/09/16.html

  "株式会社富士通研究所は、CPU間での大容量・高速通信を可能とする光による
   インターコネクト(データ伝送)を実現するために必要となる、光送受信器用
   の小型シリコンフォトニクス光源を開発しました。

   従来は、光送受信器に搭載される、光を放つシリコンフォトニクス光源と、
   光源から発せられた光に情報を乗せる光変調器に温度変化が起こった場合、
   光源の発振波長と光変調器の動作波長にずれが生じることにより、光に情報が
   乗らなくなる懸念がありました。そのため常におたがいの動作波長を一致
   させるための温度制御が不可欠でした。今回、光源の波長と光変調器の
   動作波長を自動的に一致させる機構を新しく取り入れることで、従来技術では
   必要であった温度調整機構を不要とすることに成功しました。この技術により、
   光送受信器の送信部において小型化および従来比2分の1の低消費電力化が
   可能となります。

   今回開発した技術により、小型で低消費電力な光送受信器を CPUパッケージに
   搭載可能になります。将来のエクサフロップス級スパコンやハイエンドサーバ
   などにおけるCPU間の光インターコネクトへの適用により、超高速コンピュータ
   の実現が期待されます。"

  "本技術の詳細は、9月14日(水曜日)から16日(金曜日)までイギリス・ロンドン
   で開催された国際会議「8th Group IV Photonics (GFP 2011)」にて発表いた
   しました。"

※英語版 (USA、UK) プレスリリースは未だのようです。

[san-tech][03368] 2011/10/28 (金):インテルソフトウェアカンファレンス東京

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:06:30 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
以下の日程で、インテルソフトウェアカンファレンスが東京で開催されます:

会 期:2011年 10月 28日(金) 10:00~17:10 (9:00受付開始)
会 場:シェラトン都ホテル東京 (東京都港区白金台)
主 催:インテル コーポレーション、インテル株式会社
定 員:400名
参加費:無料(事前登録制)
対象者:並列化のための新しいテクノロジーやツールを使用して、
マルチコア・プロセッサー向けにアプリケーションの並列化および
最適化に取り組むソフトウェア開発者
(セッションで主に使用するプログラミング言語:C/C++/Fortran)
  http://www.intelsoftwareconferencejapan.com/tokyo.html

[san-tech][03367] "Koomey's Law: Computing efficiency keeps pace with Moore's Law", SEPTEMBER 13, 2011, InfoWorld

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:26:37 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
"Koomey's Law: Computing efficiency keeps pace with Moore's Law"
 Computers have historically doubled in energy efficiency every
 18 months, according to new study
 SEPTEMBER 13, 2011, InfoWorld
  http://www.infoworld.com/t/green-it/koomeys-law-computing-efficiency-keeps-pace-moores-law-172681

Koomey's Lawグラフ (Computations per kWhと年代):
  http://www.infoworld.com/sites/infoworld.com/files/media/image/KoomeysLaw.PNG

2011/09/08

[san-tech][03366] HDS Announces Acquisition of BlueArc, September 7, 2011

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:23:03 +0900
--------------------------------------------------

"Hitachi Data Systems Announces Acquisition of BlueArc"
 September 7, 2011
  http://www.bluearc.com/storage-news/press-releases/110907-Hitachi-Data-Systems-Announces-Acquisition-of-BlueArc.shtml
  http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/press-releases/2011/gl110907.html

  "Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), ..... today announced
   a significant milestone in its strategy to give customers
   seamless access to all data, content and information with
   the acquisition of BlueArc Corporation, ..... Building upon
   a successful 5 year OEM partnership, Hitachi Data Systems and
   BlueArc will give customers the unmatched combination of
   Hitachi enterprise-class quality, reliability and support with
   innovative, highly scalable, high performance BlueArc network
   attached storage (NAS). "

2011/08/31

[san-tech][03364] Texas Memory: 10 TB of eMLC Flash in 1U, August 23, 2011

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:53:07 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
少し前の発表ですが、

"Texas Memory Systems Brings RamSan High Performance and High Reliability
 to eMLC Applications"
 August 23, 2011
  http://www.ramsan.com/company/pressReleases/146

  "The RamSan-810 leverages 33 years of design expertise in record-setting
   performance and reliability for the eMLC Flash storage market. It packs
   10 Terabytes into a 1U enclosure with 4-GB/s bandwidth and 320K random
   IOPS. For read-heavy enterprise applications, the RamSan-810 offers
   Tier-0 performance and reliability at Tier-1 prices."

[san-tech][03363] Fusion-io ioCache = ioDrive + ioTurbine, Aug. 29, 2011

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:46:49 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
早くも製品化です。

"Fusion-io Unveils ioCache Virtualization Solution"
 Fusion's ioTurbine Software and Customized ioMemory Accelerator
 Virtualizes Flash to Deliver Affordable Performance for
 Virtualizing Data-Intensive Enterprise Applications
 Aug. 29, 2011
  http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-unveils-iocache-virtualization-solution/
  http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1e8imv/docsPress/PR_FIO_ioCache_8.26.11.pdf
.....
  "When deployed in a VMware environment, Fusion's ioTurbine software
   dynamically provisions ioMemory capacity and I/O performance across
   multiple virtual machines (VMs) by using Fusion's VSL OS Subsystem
   to house and serve data for each VM.  Tight integration of VSL's
   host-based flash management and ioTurbine's cache management
   eliminates otherwise redundant mapping functions, maximizing I/O
   performance and adding a critical and previously missing piece
   to virtualized IT environments - a plentiful supply of scalable,
   low-latency I/O."

  "Through this approach, Fusion-io unites the benefits of flash and
   cache without the overhead costs created by integrating each
   technology through traditional architectures using storage
   protocols and embedded processors. This solution avoids the need
   for expensive, performance-oriented networked storage systems,
   SSD arrays and memory appliances that struggle to deliver
   performance from the far end of a network, instead allowing
   enterprises to use cost optimized shared storage systems."
.....
  "Available exclusively in bundles with ioTurbine software,
   Fusion's ioCachedelivers 600GB of capacity optimized to support
   the majority of virtualized application workloads. "

2011/08/30

[san-tech][03362] Citrix: Cloud.comをオープンソース化、8/29/2011

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:37:25 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Citrix社が、2011年 7月に買収した Cloud.comをオープンソース化しました:

"Citrix Opens Up the Cloud for VMware Customers"
 Latest Release of CloudStack Brings the Leading Open Source Cloud
 Platform to VMware vSphere and OracleVM Users
 8/29/2011
  http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=2315523

  "Citrix Systems today announced a new edition of CloudStack, which
   will feature enhanced support for both the VMware vSphere and
   Oracle VM hypervisors, enabling VMware and Oracle customers
   to manage their virtualized servers as a highly available, scalable
   cloud computing environment.  Citrix CloudStack is not just
   a traditional enterprise server virtualization platform with
   cloud management layered on top, it is a production-ready, free
   and open source cloud infrastructure platform that helps providers
   of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services
   that are scalable, secure, and open by design.  The new release is
   based on the same CloudStack solution that has been used by some of
   the world's largest and most successful public clouds to roll out
   new cloud services up to 50 times faster and at one-fifth the cost
   of alternative solutions(1).  This is the first release of
   the product since Citrix acquired Cloud.com in July."

2011/08/29

[san-tech][03361] Re: Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 Proceedings (2011/08/09 - 11)

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:51:09 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
[san-tech][03341] Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 (2011/08/09 - 11)
  Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:36:15 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
↑で紹介した David Floyerさんの記事が更新されました:

"2011 Flash Memory Summit Enterprise Roundup
 Last Update: Aug 28, 2011, Wikibon
 Originating Author: David Floyer

[san-tech][03360] Intel Cilk Plus is now available in open-source and for GCC 4.7!, August 9, 2011

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:15:58 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Intelから C/C++を拡張した並列言語 Cilkがオープンソースとして公開され
ました。Cilkの発音は "silk" です (以下の MITサイトから)。

Intel Cilk Plus
  http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus/
"Intel Cilk Plus is now available in open-source and for GCC 4.7!"

"Parallelism as a First Class Citizen in C and C++, the time has come."
 August 9, 2011, Intel Software Blogs
  http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/08/09/parallelism-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-c-and-c-the-time-has-come/

[san-tech][03359] The SSD Review (SSD情報サイト)

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:56:50 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
SSD情報サイトです:

The SSD Review
The Worlds Dedicated SSD Resource and Review Site
  http://thessdreview.com/

About Us
  http://thessdreview.com/background/
"The SSD Review was officially launched and available to the public
 on March 28, 2010."

"The roots of the site can be traced back to August 29, 2007 when
 the Publisher, Les Tokar, published the first review of a solid
 state drive on the internet with his review of the Sandisk U5000
 32Gb SLC SSD."
.....
"All original articles are published here at The SSD Review
 in order to assist in an understanding of how fast we are
 progressing in the world of SSD storage."

2011/08/28

[san-tech][03358] Panasas Webinar: "pNFS-Are We There Yet?" (Aug. 24, 2011)

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:02:14 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2011年 8月 24日の Panasasの Webinar: "pNFS-Are We There Yet?" の
ビデオが公開されています:

WEBINAR: PNFS - ARE WE THERE YET?
  http://www.panasas.com/news/webinars/pnfs-are-we-there-yet

YouTube
"WEBINAR: pNFS-Are We There Yet?"
 Panasas pNFS Update
 2011/08/24, PanasasHPC, 50:35, 720p
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTu6VxRrQM

  "NFS has been the standard protocol for NAS systems since the 1980s.
   However, with the explosive growth of Linux clusters running
   demanding technical computing applications, NFS is no longer
   sufficient for these big data workloads. After years of development
   effort, driven by Panasas and others, pNFS is now just around
   the corner and promises to dramatically improve Linux client
   I/O performance thanks to its parallel architecture.

   Geoffrey Noer, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Panasas
   presents this on-demand webinar -- "pNFS: Are We There Yet?""

2011/08/25

[san-tech][03356] 白色LEDで 100Mbpsデータ転送 (100Mbps by white-light LEDs)

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:17:15 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
EUのプロジェクトで白色 LED可視光を利用して 100Mbpsのデータ転送に
成功しました:

"Data are traveling by light"
 Research News August 2011
 Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT

  "Regular LEDs can be turned into optical WLAN with only a few
   additional components thanks to visible light communication
   (in short, VLC). The lights are then not just lighting up, they
   also transfer data. They send films in HD quality to your iPhone
   or laptop, with no loss in quality, quickly and safely."
.....
  "... since scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for
   Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin,
   Germany, have developed a new transfer technology for video data
   within the scope of the OMEGA project of the EU, its
   implementation in real life is getting markedly closer. At the
   end of May, the scientists were able to present the results of
   the project in Rennes, France. They were able to transfer data
   at a rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) without any losses,
   using LEDs in the ceiling that light up more than ten square
   meters (90 square feet). The receiver can be placed anywhere
   within this radius, which is currently the maximum range.

2011/08/23

[san-tech][03354] Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility, August 23rd, 2011

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:54:10 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
まだ GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2レベルですが、

"Gluster Announces Apache Hadoop Storage Compatibility in Latest
 GlusterFS Release"
 August 23, 2011

  "... today announced the release of GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 which
   includes compatibility for Apache Hadoop. This latest enhancement
   to GlusterFS uses the standard file system APIs available in Hadoop
   to provide a new storage option for Hadoop deployments. With this
   new feature, GlusterFS is the first open source, POSIX-compliant
   file and object storage solution that works with Hadoop. Compatible
   with existing MapReduce-based applications and with the ability
   to co-exist with HDFS, this new functionality opens up data within
   Hadoop deployments to any file- or object-based application,
   providing a broad new range of options for big data deployments."

2011/08/21

[san-tech][03352] Slide: Titan Summit (Cray XK6, 20PF Peek), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), (2011/08/15 - 17)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:27:50 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
こちらも US DOE HPC関連ですが、Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilityの
次期 HPC: Titan (20PF Peak, Cray XK6, Opteron + GPU)についてのワークショップ
資料が公開されました:

Titan Summit
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), August 15 - 17, 2011
  http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/event/titan-summit/

"The summit will provide a forum for current and prospective users
 to meet with OLCF staff and industry vendors to discuss Titan,
 the next-generation leadership-class computational resource, and
 a significant step towards exascale computing at the OLCF.  Users
 are encouraged to present their application plans for scaling
 to exascale."

[san-tech][03351] Slide: US DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection (2011/08/16 - 19)

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:04:23 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
US DOEの HPC関連ワークショップの

12th Workshop on the DOE
Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection
August 16-19, 2011

講演資料が公開されました。

2011/08/19

[san-tech][03350] Slide: US DOE 2011 Workshop on Architectures II: Exascale and Beyond: Configuring, Reasoning, Scaling (2011/08/08 - 10)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:50:38 +0900
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[san-tech][03349] Slide: US DOE 2011 Workshop on Architectures I: 
Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research, Gaps in our Thinking (2011/08/02, 03)
  Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:40:41 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
先に [03349] 紹介した

2011 Workshop on Architectures I: Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research,
Gaps in our Thinking
  http://www.orau.gov/archI2011/default.htm

の関連ワークショップの資料が公開されています:

2011 Workshop on Architectures II: Exascale and Beyond: Configuring,
Reasoning, Scaling, 8/8/11 - 8/10/11
  http://www.orau.gov/archII2011/default.htm

 "The goal for this workshop will identify ways that we can abstract
   architectures, in general, to meet the ever-changing complexities
   inherent in exascale (and beyond). This workshop will be essential
   in molding our path forward in hardware and software architectures
   design space exploration, including simulation and emulation modeling
   and their role in developing and implementing abstract machine models.
   Moreover, we believe that such methodologies will prove insightful
   in discovering what could and should be included or changed in next
   and future generation hardware. Scholars from both DOE and non-DOE
   communities will participate. Together we will identify machine
   abstractions, their idealized primitives, and view of memory. It will
   be informative to discuss and debate the realization of these
   abstractions. Moreover, given an existing real system and/or subsystem,
   how do we do explain its machine abstraction and would this abstraction
   be sufficient to explain the performance attributes of exascale?"

[san-tech][03349] Slide: US DOE 2011 Workshop on Architectures I: Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research, Gaps in our Thinking (2011/08/02, 03)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:40:41 +0900
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以下のワークショップの講演資料が公開されています:

2011 Workshop on Architectures I: Exascale and Beyond: Gaps in Research,
Gaps in our Thinking
  http://www.orau.gov/archI2011/default.htm

  "It has been approximately two years since DOE and DARPA completed their
   "ground breaking" exascale reports. In July 2010, the DARPA UHPC program
   was started. Four teams were funded to research and develop ExtremeScale
   designs. Various computer vendors have claimed that they are investigating
   the designs of exascale computers (IBM, HP and SGI). Several DOE labs are
   also investigating exascale designs (LBL, Sandia). The purpose of
   this workshop is to address the hardware and software architecture
   challenges for developing exascale computers. It would be very informative
   to revisit the exascale studies and explore what has been learned and
   to discuss research gaps. To achieve this goal we will meet and discuss
   the lessons learned from these various activities."

2011/08/18

[san-tech][03346] Slide: 2011 Gordon Summer Institute (2011/08/08 - 12)

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:32:45 +0900
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First Flash Memory-based Supercomputerをうたい文句とした、SDSC Gordonの

Get Ready for Gordon - Summer Institute, August 8 - 11, 2011
2011 Gordon Summer Institute Agenda

の講演資料が公開されました。以下の Webページからダウンロード可能です:

[san-tech][03345] Xsigo Server Fabric, August 15, 2011

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:58:59 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Xsigoプレスリリースやビデオの前に、後半で紹介する The Registerの記事を
先に読んだ方が解りやすい気もしますが、まずはプレスリリースから

"Xsigo First to Market with Virtualized Server Fabric to Enable Cloud
Data Centers"

Xsigo Server Fabric lets enterprise IT managers and cloud providers
provision new services 10x faster at half the cost of operation
Xsigo leapfrogs switch and port-based legacy vendors Cisco, Brocade
and Juniper with fully virtualized network connectivity
August 15, 2011

"Xsigo Systems today announced the Xsigo Server Fabric, the industry's
first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.
The Xsigo Server Fabric enables one-click network connections from
virtual machines to any data center resource - including servers,
networks, storage, and other virtual machines - to accelerate
the management of virtualized data centers."

2011/08/16

[san-tech][03344] SmartOS from Joyent (ZFS, DTrace, KVM (OS-based virtualization (Zones)), Crossbow)

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:35:03 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Sun DTraceの開発功績で、Technology Review, MITの TR35に選出された
Bryan Cantrill氏が移籍した Joyentから、(illumosベースの) SmartOSが
一般公開されました:

"Joyent Announces SmartOS With KVM: An Open Source, Modern Operating System"

 KVM on SmartOS provides entrepreneurs and enterprises highest performance
 and profit potential through best of breed cloud technologies
 August 15, 2011

  "... today announced that it has ported KVM to its operating system,
   SmartOS. SmartOS turns any server into a highly efficient,
   multi-tenant application hosting platform.  The open source project
   offers innovative tools for application developers looking for
   reliable, resilient storage and efficient virtualization that
   Joyent has tuned and hardened for modern, data-intensive real-time
   (DIRTy) application deployment."

2011/08/15

[san-tech][03299] 2011/08/25(木):SS研 HPCフォーラム2011 「ペタスケール HPC技術が支える地球科学」

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:54:55 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2011年 8月 25日(木)、サイエンテフィック・システム研究会 (SS研) により、
SS研 HPCフォーラム 2011
ペタスケールHPC技術が支える地球科学
  http://www.ssken.gr.jp/MAINSITE/activity/sectionmeeting/sci/2011-1/program.html
  http://www.ssken.gr.jp/MAINSITE/activity/sectionmeeting/sci/2011-1/program.pdf
が開催されます。
※申込み:Webページ経由  [受付期間:7/22(金)~8/15(月)]

2011/08/12

[san-tech][03342] 次世代スーパーコンピュータ「京」ビデオ、ディスカバリーチャンネル&BS-TBS

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:40:37 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
少し前のビデオですが、富士通さんサイトで以下の 2本のビデオが公開されています:

動画で見る、「次世代スーパーコンピュータ」

"日本発 次世代スーパーコンピュータ「京」"
  ディスカバリーチャンネル (2011年 3月 21日初回放送)
  5分 59秒、ダイジェスト版 (英語+日本語字幕等)

"夢をカタチにするスーパーコンピュータ"
  BS-TBS (2010年 12月 18日放送)
  6分 23秒、ダイジェスト版 (日本語)

「次世代スーパーコンピュータ」

[san-tech][03341] Slide: Flash Memory Summit 2011 (2011/08/09 - 11)

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:36:15 +0900
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2011年 8月 9日~ 11日に開催されていた:

Flash Memory Summit 2011 Proceedings, August 9 - 11, 2011

2011 Program At-a-Glance
Preview Program

の Slideが公開されています。

[san-tech][02826] Virident tachIOn (PCIe SSD):住友情報システムが代理店契約

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:12:57 +0900
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住友情報システムさんが、Fusion-ioとは別の PCIeベース SSD専門会社の
Virident社と代理店契約を結びました:

"Virident Systems Expands Global Reach to Japan with Sumisho Computer
 Systems", Nov. 15, 2010
  http://www.virident.com/news_10_11_15_sumisho.php

  "announced a new partnership with Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation
   (SCS), a leading provider of solutions and services to the Japanese
   enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) market. In partnering
   with SCS, Virident will leverage the Tokyo-based firm's expertise in
   the Japanese enterprise market and gain a local provider of
   enterprise-class systems."

2011/08/10

2011/09/10 (土) 「三好甫先生記念計算科学シンポジウム」

-------------------------------------------------
2012/04/15
 
講演集・展示
   http://www.hpfpc.org/miyoshi-sympo/proceedings.html

"このページには当日のご講演プレゼンテーション,展示コーナー,
会場と懇親会の様子を用意しましたのでご覧ください."

-------------------------------------------------
~わが国スーパーコンピュータの来し方・未来を語る~一日として
「三好甫先生記念計算科学シンポジウム」を開催いたします.
  http://www.hpfpc.org/miyoshi-sympo/

講演会・懇親会 参加登録
  http://www.hpfpc.org/miyoshi-sympo/touroku.html
参加申込方法:
事前登録へのご協力をお願いいたします.
8月10日(水)までにお申し込みください。
==================================================

Take a Bath!


2011/08/09

Laleham Park, England, 2009/11


[san-tech][03339] SIGGRAPH 2011でも Fusion-io, Aug. 8, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:05:41 +0900
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Fusion-ioのプレスリリースです:

"Fusion-io Teams Up with NVIDIA, Tweak Software and Thinkbox Software
 to Accelerate Entertainment Production"

 Innovative Industry Leaders Unlock Performance to Unleash Creativity
 in Digital Content Creation Tools Showcased at SIGGRAPH 2011
 Aug. 8, 2011

[san-tech][03337] IBM: NCSA Blue Watersキャンセルだ!, Aug. 8, 2011, Effective August 6, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:39:33 +0900
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※Blue Waters Interconnect Network情報追加 (09 Aug 2011 21:13:59 +0900)

あれまぁ、

"Blue Waters Update-NCSA/IBM Joint Statement"
 Aug. 8, 2011, Effective August 6, 2011

  "IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide
   the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications'
   Blue Waters project."

  "NCSA is confident that its goal of building a sustained-petascale
   supercomputer remains achievable in a timely manner. NCSA is
   coordinating with the National Science Foundation to ensure project
   continuity and that the goals of the project are achieved."
.....
  "IBM will return money received to date and NCSA will return equipment
   delivered by IBM per terms of the contract."


関連記事 (と言っても上のプレスリリースがメイン)

"IBM Cancels Blue Waters"
 Aug 8, 2011, insideHPC

[san-tech][03336] New EMC Disk Library for Mainframe, The industry’s fastest mainframe VTL for z/OS, August 8, 2011

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:10:06 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
EMCのプレスリリースです:

"New EMC Disk Library for Mainframe is First Integrated Solution
 for All Tape Use Cases"

 EMC DLm6000 2x Faster than Competition and Reduces Reliance
 on Mainframe Tape
 August 8, 2011

News Summary
  *)The new DLm6000 is the only solution that can address the full
    range of mainframe tape workloads with a single, consolidated
    all-disk system
  *)Designed for use in IBM z/OS environments, the new EMC DLm6000
   is the industry's fastest mainframe VTL
  *)Integrates EMC VNX7500 and/or EMC Data Domain DD890 storage
    systems to support all mainframe use cases
  *)Matches different workloads to the most appropriate storage

[san-tech][02806] "EMC Acquires Bus-Tech", November 10, 2010

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:24:40 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
"EMC Acquires Bus-Tech", November 10, 2010

  "... today announced it has acquired Bedford, Massachusetts-based
   Bus-Tech, Inc. Bus-Tech is a privately held provider of VTL
   (Virtual Tape Library) solutions that utilize open systems disk
   storage to store and retrieve mainframe tape data. Bus-Tech
   products enhance EMC solutions for mainframe batch processing,
   backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and data archiving
   applications. Bus-Tech now becomes part of the rapidly growing
   EMC Backup Recovery Systems division, which delivers next-generation,
   disk-based backup and recovery solutions. The acquisition is not
   expected to have a material impact to EMC GAAP and non-GAAP EPS
   for the full 2010 fiscal year."

2011/08/07

London Eye, 2009/11


[san-tech][03335] OpenDRAC (Re: "Ciena's Dynamic Resource Allocation Controller Released As Open Source Software", 2010/06/03)

Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:18:37 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
一年以上前の投稿への自己レスですが、Ciena Dynamic Resource Allocation 
Controller (DRAC)、元は Nortelの技術は、既に

OpenDRAC
the Open Dynamic Resource Allocation Controller

サイトが用意され、すでに OpenDRAC 4.1.0 (June 2011) が公開されてました。

[san-tech][03334] Slide/Video: NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III (2011/04/07, 08)

Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:57:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2011年 4月 7、8日に開催された

NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III
Agenda
※下は Bioへのリンク付き

のハイライトビデオとスライドが公開されています。

2011/08/06

Runnymede, England, 2009/10 [4]

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[san-tech][03332] Intel: クラウドと組み込み研究に $30Mを CMUに投資、2011/08/03

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:28:59 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
(OpSIS) 設立
  Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:37:53 +0900
で紹介した、

> 関連していると思われる Intel Press Release
> "Intel Labs to Invest $100 Million in U.S. University Research"
>  2011/01/26
> ----------------------------------------
> First Center Hosted by Stanford, Focused on Visual Computing
> NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
> *)Intel Labs announced $100 million cash investment in U.S. university
>   research over the next 5 years, marking a new model of collaboration
>   for the organization.
> *)Funding will support a number of Intel Science and Technology Centers;
>   the first such center will be led by Stanford University and focus on
>   next-generation visual computing.
> *)This new model of university-lead research is expected to provide U.S.
>   researchers with up to 5 times more funding from Intel Labs compared
>   to the previous approach, and enable engagements across a broader set
>   of universities.
> ----------------------------------------

で設立される研究機関は 

Intel Science and Technology Center 

と呼ばれ、

[san-tech][03330] カナダ政府 ITコストを削減:データセンター統合 (300 => 20)、E-mail system (100 => ONE) 等

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:48:18 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
カナダ政府が、ITコストを削減を打ち出しました:

"Government of Canada to Reduce Information Technology Costs and
 Save Taxpayers' Dollars"
 August 4, 2011, Government of Canada

  "On behalf of the Government of Canada, the Honourable Rona Ambrose,
   Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for
   Status of Women, along with the Honourable Tony Clement, President
   of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Federal Economic
   Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, today announced
   measures to streamline and identify savings in
   Information Technology (IT) through Shared Services Canada."

[san-tech][03329] Linux 3.0で pNFSサポート?

Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:05:28 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
以前紹介した Linux 3.0
 2011-07-22
  http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0

では全く触れてませんが、Panasasの Blogでは、

"PARALLELISM GOES MAINSTREAM"
 July 29, 2011, Submitted by Barbara Murphy
  http://panasas.com/blog/parallelism-goes-mainstream
.....
  "...  Just to show that things do not move fast in the standards world,
   the IETF approved the first Internet Draft for the pNFS standard in 2008
   and finally by June 2011, pNFS for files and objects was only then
   included in latest kernel (version 3.0).

   The release of Linux Kernel 3.0 was a huge industry milestone.  Finally
   another hurdle to take full advantage of Parallelism has been removed
   with the standardization of pNFS as the long term file system of choice
   for HPC applications.  However it will likely be at least one more year
   before pNFS is in the hands of users as it still requires Linux software
   vendors to include it in commercial releases."

[san-tech][03328] "Erasure Coding - The New Approach to Data Archiving", August 4th, 2011, SiliconANGLE

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:38:44 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Wikibonに CTOの David Floyer氏が、Erasure Codingについて投稿している
のを、SiliconANGLEが取り上げています:

"Erasure Coding - The New Approach to Data Archiving"
 August 4th 2011, SiliconANGLE
.....
  "Now, says Wikibon CTO David Floyer in a new article on Wikibon.org,
   an emerging data archiving approach called Erasure Coding, based on
   a fairly complicated mathematical analysis, promises very secure data
   archiving in the public cloud at an order-of-magnitude less cost than
   the three-data-center approach. The trade-off is that data access is
   slower, although certainly much faster and easier than access to data
   archived on tape. And it avoids the issues of media obsolescence
   as well as deterioration that plague older tape-based data."

2011/08/05

[san-tech][03327] OCZ: Next Generation Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD, August 2, 2011

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:01:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
OCZから、PCI Expressベース新機種 (第二世代) のアナウンスです:

"OCZ Technology Launches Next Generation Z-Drive R4 PCI Express
 Solid State Storage Systems"

 The Z-Drive R4 Provides the Ultimate Solution for Big Data and
 Cloud Computing Applications by Coupling Enterprise-Class Power
 Fail Protection with Benchmark-Shattering Performance
 August 2, 2011

  "today announced the release of Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express
  (PCIe) storage solutions designed to dramatically accelerate
   enterprise applications and significantly reduce total cost of
   ownership in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 product line features
   OCZ's second generation proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture
   (VCA) 2.0, providing the utmost in performance, flexibility,
   durability and enhanced reliability features, allowing data centers,
   for the first time, to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary
   tier one storage solution."

[san-tech][03326] "Fusion-io to Acquire IO Turbine", Aug. 4, 2011

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:21:26 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
既にご存じの方も多いと思いますが、

"Fusion-io to Acquire IO Turbine"

 Combined Software Solution to Significantly Enhance Performance
 in Virtualized Environments
 Aug. 4, 2011

  "... today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement
   to acquire IO Turbine, Inc., a provider of caching solutions for
   virtual environments. Under terms of the agreement, Fusion-io will
   pay up to approximately $95 million, subject to purchase price
   adjustments, for all outstanding securities of IO Turbine."

2011/08/03

[san-tech][03325] Googleは 900,000サーバと推定 (Re: "Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010",..., August 1, 2011)

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:09:54 +0900
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[san-tech][03324] "Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010", 
Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., August 1, 2011
  Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:25:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
よく調べたら、このレポートが以下の記事等の、Googleが 900.000台のサーバを
導入している根拠となっています。

"Report: Google Uses About 900,000 Servers"
 August 1st, 2011, Data Center Knowledge
  http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/01/report-google-uses-about-900000-servers/

"A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency"
 Aug. 1, 2011, GigaOM
  http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-sneak-peek-into-googles-servers-energy-efficiency/

  "A report from data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey, published
   on Monday morning, gave a rare glimpse into some educated estimates
   for how many servers and how much electricity Google uses, and how
   energy-efficient those custom servers are."

確かに、

"Table 4: Educated guesswork about electricity used by Google's servers"
 (Page 23)

で、2000年、2005年、2010年の各種情報 (サーバ台数、各種機器の BkWh等) を
一覧にしています。沢山の注釈付きですが。


[san-tech][03324] "Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010", Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., August 1, 2011

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:25:29 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2008年に "Worldwide electricity used in data centers" を公開した、
Jonathan G. Koomey博士 (Consulting Professor, Stanford University) の
最新レポートです:

"Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010"
 August 1. 2011, Analytics Press.
  http://www.analyticspress.com/datacenters.html

いきなり最後を引用:
  "In summary, the rapid rates of growth in data center electricity use
   that prevailed from 2000 to 2005 slowed significantly from 2005 to 2010,
   yielding total electricity use by data centers in 2010 of about 1.3%
   of all electricity use for the world, and 2% of all electricity use for
   the US."

レポート (24 Page) ダウンロード URL
  http://www.mediafire.com/?zzqna34282frr2f

[san-tech][03323] eBay Installs 100 TBs of Nimbus Flash & Nimbus Unveils Next Generation S-Class Flash Memory Systems, August 2, 2011

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:59:45 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
eBayが Nimbus Data Systemsから 100TB Flash Storage System を VMware用
として導入しました:

"eBay Installs 100 TBs of Nimbus Flash Memory Storage for Virtualization"

 World-class virtualization deployment sees provisioning times slashed 
 from 40 minutes to 3 minutes with Nimbus S-Class systems
 August 2, 2011

  "...  today announced that eBay, the world's largest online marketplace,
   has deployed more than 100 terabytes of Nimbus S-Class flash memory
   to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The scale of
   the Nimbus deployment at eBay, which started with one system and
   expanded to 12 systems in less than one year, makes it among
   the world's largest consolidated deployments of network-attached flash
   storage for virtualization today."

2011/08/02

[san-tech][03322] ScaleMP: STREAM’s Triad function was just over 2.25 TB/s, August 01, 2011

Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:55:18 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
現在
ScaleMP
に接続できないので、BUSINESS WIRE経由のプレスリリースです:

"ScaleMP Places Among Top Three Worldwide on Stream Benchmark"

vSMP Foundation Achieves Outstanding Sustainable Memory Bandwidth
 August 01, 2011, BUSINESS WIRE

  "...  vSMP Foundation claimed the top three results for the STREAM
   synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth
   (in MB/s) in high-performance computers. The result achieved for STREAM's
   Triad function was just over 2.25 TB/s."

[san-tech][03321] IBM Redpaper(Draft): "Smarter Data Centers: Achieving Greater Efficiency"

Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:29:42 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
まだ Draftレベルですが、IBM Redpaperです:

"Smarter Data Centers: Achieving Greater Efficiency"
 Last Update: 2011/07/29, Planned Publish Date: 2011/08/31

  "This IBM Redpaper publication can help your IT organization as
   it begins the journey to becoming a smarter data center. IBM wants
   to help others, particularly our clients, to chart a course to reap
   the benefits of lower costs and improved sustainability that running
   a green data center can provide. Understanding what is possible can
   speed your journey to an optimized smarter data center with
   sustainability designed into both the IT and facilities
   infrastructures. Although this paper is not all inclusive, it provides
   a quick start for going green in data centers. It also provides
   additional pointers and information. You can use this paper as
   a guide to becoming more energy efficient."

[san-tech][03298] 2011/08/02, 03: IDEMA国際ディスクフォーラム 2011「HDDの新たな挑戦」

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:43:49 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
2011年 8月 2(火)、3(水)、IDEMA Japanによる
国際ディスクフォーラム (DISKCON JAPAN) 2011
「HDDの新たな挑戦」
が開催されます。

2011/08/01

[san-tech][03320] Re: Open Cloud Principles by Open Cloud Initiative & CLOUD2 by TechAmerica Foundation

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:07:39 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------

VCE (VMware, Cisco EMC共同プロジェクト) は、Cloud2をサポートするそうです:

"VCE Helps Government Agencies Embrace the Cloud"

 VCE Chairman and CEO Michael Capellas Serves as Federal Cloud Commission
 Co-Chair, Offers Final Report on How the US Government Can Accelerate
 the Adoption of Cloud Technologies

 Jul 26, 2011
  http://www.vce.com/pdf/media/vce-pr-2011-07-26-federal-cloud-commission.pdf
  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vce-helps-government-agencies-embrace-the-cloud-2011-07-26
※↑HTML版

  "VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company, announces its support
   for the TechAmerica Federal CLOUD2 Commission report which was officially
   released today in Washington D.C. at the National Press Club.
   The TechAmerica CLOUD2 Commission is a group of over 70 thought leaders
   from industry, government and academia brought together to generate
   recommendations for accelerating adoption of cloud technologies in
   the US Government." ...


[san-tech][03318] Fusion-ioを使用した場合の White Paper: "STATISTICA Performance with Fusion ioDrive", June 2011

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:10:52 +0900
--------------------------------------------------
Fusion-io ioDriveに関する、StatSoft, Inc.の White Paper (3 Page) です:

"Fusion-io Unleashes CPUs, Reduces I/O Bottleneck to Accelerate StatSoft
 Data Analysis Software"

 White Paper from StatSoft Details 300-500% Performance Improvements and
 Latency Reductions in Testing Fusion ioMemory with STATISTICA Software
 July 28, 2011

  "... today announced that StatSoft, provider of a comprehensive
   array of data analysis, data management, data visualization and
   data mining technologies, recently tested Fusion's ioMemory platform
   with its flagship STATISTICA software, comparing Fusion ioDrives
   to disk-based storage components."

[san-tech][03317] SSDの信頼性 ("Investigation: Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?", July 29, 2011, Tom's Hardware)

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:43:46 +0900
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HDDの信頼性評価は難しいのですが、SSDも同様です:

"Investigation: Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?"
 July 29, 2011, Tom's Hardware

  "Does a lack of moving parts translate to higher reliability?
   That's the assumption many enthusiasts and IT professionals make
   about SSDs. We go straight to the data centers using these devices,
   dig into failure rate statistics, and suggest otherwise."

2011/07/31

Runnymede, England, 2009/10 [3]

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[san-tech][03315] Open Cloud Principles by Open Cloud Initiative & CLOUD2 by TechAmerica Foundation

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:37:11 +0900
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Open Cloud Initiativeのプレスリリースです (後半は CLOUD2関連です):

"Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing"
 07/26/2011

  "Today the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization
   established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced
   its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its
   purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater
   cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus
   on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in
   the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those
   requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of
   community consensus."