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

2012/04/13

[san-tech][03526] SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Tutorials: 2012 Spring Edition

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:45:33 +0900
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SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Tutorialsの 2012 Spring版が
公開されています:

SNIA Tutorials
Spring 2012 Tutorials
  http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/2012/spring

[san-tech][03525] Intel SSD 910 Series: PCIe-based 400GB and 800GB, April 12, 2012

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:36:10 +0900
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2012/05/20
"Intel SSD 910 Review: PCI Express-Based Enterprise Storage"
 July 3, 2012, Tom's Hardware
  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-910-benchmark-performance,3226.html

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2012/05/20
"Intel SSD 910 PCI Express SSD Performance Review"
 May 04, 2012, HotHardware
  http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Intel-SSD-910-PCI-Express-SSD-Performance-Review/

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2012/04/26
[Links]: Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews, 2012/04/23 (22) & Intel acquires Cray's Interconnect Technology, 2012/04/24
 
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2012/04/16
[san-tech][03529] Slide: Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Beijing (April 11-12, 2012)
 
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 2012/04/13

"Intel's SSD 910: Finally a PCIe SSD from Intel"
 4/12/2012, AnandTech
  http://www.anandtech.com/show/5743/intels-ssd-910-400800gb-mlchet-pcie-shipping-in-1h-2012
  http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/910/announcement/Intel-SSD-910-Exploded-3-layers-copy.jpg
  "... The first PCB features either two or four SAS SSD controllers, jointly
   developed by Intel and Hitachi (the same controllers are used in Hitachi's
   Ultrastar SSD400M). These controllers are very similar to Intel's
   X25-M/G2/310/320 controller family but with a couple of changes.
   The client controller features a single CPU core, while the Intel/Hitachi
   controller features two cores (one managing the NAND side of the drive
   while the other managing the SAS interface). Both are 10-channel designs,
   although the 910's implementation features 14 NAND packages per controller."

  http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/910/announcement/arch.jpg
   "In front of the four controllers is an LSI 2008 SAS to PCIe bridge. There's
   no support for hardware RAID, each controller presents itself to the OS
   as a single drive with a 200GiB (186GB) capacity. ..."

"Intel's 910 PCIe SSD Enterprise Flash Controller Takes Aim
 At The Datacenter Storage Market"
 April 12, 2012, The SSD Review
  http://thessdreview.com/latest-buzz/intels-910-pcie-x8-2-0-enterprise-flash-controller-takes-aim-at-the-datacenter-storage-market/

"Intel penetrates PCIe flash biz with long-lasting hardness"
 Duracell-Bunny-styled SSD 910 goes on... and on
 13th April 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/13/intel_910/


"インテル、高性能、高耐久性、高信頼性を提供するインテルR SSD 910 シリーズを発表"
 2012 年 4 月 13 日
  http://newsroom.intel.com/community/ja_jp/blog/2012/04/12/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB-%E9%AB%98%E6%80%A7%E8%83%BD-%E9%AB%98%E8%80%90%E4%B9%85%E6%80%A7-%E9%AB%98%E4%BF%A1%E9%A0%BC%E6%80%A7%E3%82%92%E6%8F%90%E4%BE%9B%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB-ssd-910-%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%82%92%E7%99%BA%E8%A1%A8

"インテル SSD 910 シリーズに関する仕様は以下の通りです。
 価格は OEM 向け出荷価格です。小売製品の価格は異なります"
  400 GB: 0.75GB/s/1GB/s: @162,490 円
  800 GB: 1GB/s/2GB/s:    @325,060 円
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Intelから PCIe-based SSD (910 Series) の発表です:

"Intel Solid-State Drive 910 Series Delivers High Performance,
 Endurance and Reliability for Data Center Tiering and Caching"
 April 12, 2012
  http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/04/12/intel-solid-state-drive-910-series-delivers-high-performance-endurance-and-reliability-for-data-center-tiering-and-caching
Intel SSD 910 Series
  http://newsroom.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-4753-2230/Intel-SSD-910-angled_view_sm.jpg

New Intel 900 SSD Family Expands SSD Product Line with PCIe Interface SSD
for Accelerated Data Center Storage

2012/04/12

[san-tech][03523] 04/20 (金) 18:30-:Oracle Solaris ナイト・セミナー#2

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:10:59 +0900
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2012年 4月 20日 (金) 18:30から

Oracle Solaris ナイト・セミナー#2
  http://atnd.org/event/solarisns2

が開催されます。

主  催:日本オラクル
開催場所:オラクル青山センター
申し込み:上記 ATND経由 (定員:90名)

[san-tech][03524] Report: Many-core Network Processors for High Performance Cyber Protection, 2011 Sep 01, SNL

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:47:43 +0900
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かなりマニアックな報告書 (第一報) です (32 pages):

"Investigating the Effectiveness of Many-core Network Processors
 for High Performance Cyber Protection Systems. Part I, FY2011."
 Publication Date: 2011 Sep 01, Update Date; 2012 Jan 26
 Robert E. Benner, et al. Sandia National Laboratories
  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?&osti_id=1029789

Abstract
"This report documents our first year efforts to address the use of
 many-core processors for high performance cyber protection. ..."

[san-tech][03522] SGI NAS - Modular Open Storage (ZFS), April 10, 2012

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:21:07 +0900
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SGIから ZFSを採用した NASシステムが発表されました:

"SGI Resets the Bar on Network Attached Storage"
 April 10, 2012
  http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2012/april/nas.html

  "... today announced the introduction of SGI NAS, a powerful,
   no-compromise, full-featured enterprise-class open storage solution
   that delivers maximum flexibility to IT managers who must master
   the challenges of inexorable data growth. As the first fully integrated
   solution in the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage product family, SGI NAS
   provides organizations with a full-featured platform that can start small
   and yet scale to multiple petabytes of unified storage according
   to business demands. ..."

2012/04/11

[san-tech][03521]"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs", April 10, 2012, Datanami (Re: Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets)

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:29 +0900
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2012/06/03

"立教大学 経営学部、日本初産学協同によるビッグデータの授業を開講
 ~データ・サイエンティスト育成に力を入れているEMCジャパンが講義に協力~"
 2012年5月22日
  http://japan.emc.com/about/news/press/japan/2012/20120522-1.htm

  "本授業は、立教大学 経営学部 国際経営学科3年次生向けに開講される
   BBP (Bilingual Business Project) (*1) の一環として、2012年の前期の
   授業の中で2012年5月28日から7月9日まで実施されます。EMCジャパンが
   講義を支援し、ビジネスにおけるビッグデータの効果的活用について議論
   します。本授業では、学生が自ら想定顧客を決定し、ビッグデータを活用
   した新しいビジネスモデルやユースケースの提案を最終目標とします。
   最終講義では、グループ単位で成果を発表し、EMCジャパンが評価を実施、
   それをもとに学生への単位が認定されます。"
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2012/04/15

Learning From Data - Online Course, Caltech
  http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

A real Caltech course, not a watered-down version
Broadcast live from the lecture hall at Caltech

*)Introductory Machine Learning course
*)Free, live broadcast online
*)Taught by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa
  http://work.caltech.edu/paper/CaltechNews.pdf
*)Prerequisites: Basic probability, matrices, and calculus
*)Live Q&A and online homeworks
*)Scoreboard ranking of participants

Outline
"This is an introductory course on machine learning that covers
 the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. ..."

Lecture  1: The Learning Problem (Tuesday, April 3)
.....
Lecture 18: Epilogue (Thursday, May 31)

Recorded Lectures
  http://work.caltech.edu/previous.html
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Datanamiの特集記事です:

"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs"
 April 10, 2012, Datanami
  http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-10/six_big_name_schools_with_big_data_programs.html

紹介されているプログラムへのリンクです、特徴は記事を参照して下さい。

2012/04/10

[san-tech][03519] "Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta Now Available", April 9, 2012

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:02:15 +0900
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2012/04/11 

Red Hat Storage 2
 2.0 Release Notes
 Release Notes for Red Hat Storage Beta 1
 Edition 1
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2/html/2.0_Release_Notes/index.html
Chapter 2. What is New in this Release?
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2/html/2.0_Release_Notes/chap-2.0_Release_Notes-Whats_New.html

Red Hat Storage 2
 User Guide
 Using Red Hat Storage Beta 1
 Edition 1
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2/html/User_Guide/index.html
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Red Hatから Red Hat Storage 2.0の Beta版がアナウンスされました:

"Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta Now Available"
 April 9, 2012
  http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/4/red-hat-storage-20-beta-now-available
.....
  "The beta of Red Hat Storage 2.0 previews several key innovations,
   including:"

  *)Unified File and Object Access: Red Hat Storage 2.0 now provides
    the industry's first release of file storage designed to integrate
    seamlessly with object storage, offering organizations greater
    information accessibility, within a single, centralized storage pool;
  *)Big Data Storage Infrastructure: ...
  *)Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ...
    XFS file system (Red Hat's Scalable File System Add-On) ...
  *)Performance Enhancements: ... (NFSv3) performance optimization;
  *)...Red Hat Storage as a storage layer for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  *)Improved Manageability: ...
  *)Improved Reliability: ...

  "If you're interested in learning more about the beta for
   Red Hat Storage 2.0, please contact rhs2.0-beta@redhat.com."

[san-tech][03518] "MySQL at Twitter", April 9, 2012: Twitter: MySQL拡張をオープンソース化 (Optimize MySQL for SSD-based machines等)

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:31:12 +0900
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Twitterが社内で使用している My SQL拡張をオープンソース化しました;

"MySQL at Twitter"
 April 9, 2012, Twitter Engineering Blog
  http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/mysql-at-twitter.html
  "MySQL is the persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data:
   the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves.
   Due to our scale, we push MySQL a lot further than most companies.
   ... we have decided to open source our MySQL work on GitHub under
   the BSD New license. ... Some of the work we’ve done includes:"

*)Add additional status variables, particularly from the internals of InnoDB
*)Optimize memory allocation on large NUMA systems
*)Reduce unnecessary work through improved server-side statement
  timeout support
*)Export and restore InnoDB buffer pool in using a safe and lightweight method
*)Optimize MySQL for SSD-based machines, including page-flushing behavior
  and reduction in writes to disk to improve lifespan

Twitter MySQL wiki
  https://github.com/twitter/mysql/wiki
twitter/mysql, GitHub
  https://github.com/twitter/mysql

[san-tech][03517] Re: "The Magellan Report on Cloud Computing for Science", Dec 2011 (Re: Magellan, US DOE Cloud Project)

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:59:25 +0900
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2012年 3月 27, 28日に開催された DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory
Committee(ASCAC) Meetingでの発表資料です (44 Pages):

"Final Report on Magellan and Update on Advanced Networking Initiative"
 Kathy Yelick
 Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences Lawrence Berkeley
 National Laboratory
 Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley
  http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/meetings/Mar12/ANI-Magellan-ASCAC12.pdf

[san-tech][03516] "Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration", April 9, 2012 & Lustre 2.2, March 15, 2012

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:34:42 +0900
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2012/04/15
"Interview: EMC Speeds Lustre Integration with Whamcloud"
 04.13.2012, insideHPC.com
  http://insidehpc.com/2012/04/13/interview-emc-speeds-lustre-integration-with-whamcloud/
  "To get the full story, I caught up with Percy Tzelnic from EMC's CTO
   Office and the SVP Fast Data Group."
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ちょっと驚き:

"Press Release: Whamcloud and EMC Collaborate on PLFS and Lustre Integration"
 April 9, 2012
  http://www.whamcloud.com/news/whamcloud-and-emc-collaborate-on-plfs-and-lustre-integration/

  "... The relationship between the two companies began over a year ago
   and promotes the open source availability of Lustre. Whamcloud and EMC,
   a fellow member of the OpenSFS consortium, are extending their
   collaboration for an additional year.

   Whamcloud and EMC will continue working together to provide deeper
   integration between the Parallel Log-structured File System (PLFS)
   and Lustre. ..."

2012/04/09

[san-tech][03515] Oak Ridge HPC Operational Assessment Report, CY 2011, February 2012

Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:58:42 +0900
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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilityの CY 2011 (2011/01/01-12/31)
Operational Assessment Report (OAR) です:

"High Performance Computing Facility Operational Assessment,
 CY 2011 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility"
 February 2012, 89 Page
 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science
  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=1036210