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HPC songs – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. I took somewhat severe liberties with some of the originals … apologies to the original authors. Viewed 7533 times by 3146 viewers. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. Notify me when new comments are added. Avatars by Sterling Adventures. BBGM (Deepak Singh's blog). James Cuff's blog. James Cuff's blog. Data use or abuse.

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Big Data – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. Scalableinfo 60 bay Unison with these: 3.6PB raw per 4U box. Raw Unapologetic Firepower: kdb from @Kx. Systemd and non-desktop scenarios. So we’ve been using Debian 8 as the basis of our SIOS v2 system. Debian has a number of very strong features that make it a fantastic basis for developing a platform … for one, it doesn&...See here, whi...

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Scalable Informatics 13th year anniversary on Saturday – scalability.org

http://scalability.org/2015/07/scalable-informatics-13th-year-anniversary-on-saturday

Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. Scalable Informatics 13th year anniversary on Saturday. We started the company on 1-August-2002. I remember arguing with a senior VP at SGI over his decision to abandon linux clusters in Feb 2001. That was the catalyst for me leaving SGI, but I was too chicken to start Scalable then. I thought I could do better than them. We tried raising...

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Been there, done that, even have a patent on it – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. Been there, done that, even have a patent on it. I just saw this. About doing a divide and conquer approach to massive scale genomics calculation. While not specific to the code in question, it looked familiar. Yeah, I think I’ve seen something like this before … and wrote the code to do it. It was called SGI GenomeCluster. Later on, a nu...

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Joe – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. An article on Python vs Julia for scripting. OpenLDAP sssd … the simple guide. M&A time: HPE buys SGI, mostly for the big data analytics appliances. I do expect more consolidation in this space. There aren’t many players doing what SGI (and the day job) does. The story is here. The interesting thing about this is, that t...Color me impres...

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Clouds – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. Raw Unapologetic Firepower: kdb from @Kx. New SIOS feature: compressed ram image for OS. It is 2016 … why am I fighting with LDAP authentication in linux? Why doesn’t it just work? Ok … very long story that boils down to us trying to help a customer out. I am trying to avoid the “lets just add another user to /etc/passwd&#...TL;DR version...

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Landman’s Laws – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. Without further ado, here they are. Landman’s (first) Law. Landman’s (second) Law on benchmarking. Landman’s (third) Law on internet discussions. Landman’s (fourth) Law on generalization:. S law of crappy designs:. A bad design or implementation is going to suck most of the time. Corollary to above law:. Also known as Technical Debt.

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Build debugging thoughts – scalability.org

http://scalability.org/2015/07/build-debugging-thoughts

Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. That we use for providing up to date and bug-reduced versions of various tools for our appliances. Have a number of internal testing suites. These suites do a pretty good job of exercising code. When you build Perl, and the internal modules and tools, tests are done right then and there, as part of the module installation. Since I drive m...

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Insanely awesome project and product – scalability.org

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Not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy. I want to be an HPC star. Knockin on PetaFLOPs door. Insanely awesome project and product. This is one of Scalable Informatics FastPath Unison. Systems, well the bottom part. The top are clients we are using to test with. More soon. This is just insanely exciting stuff. Capability class to an insane degree. Viewed 47842 times by 2375 viewers. Categorized in: Storage. July 27, 2015.