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Article: Profiling MPI Applications (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Sun March 1 2009) Sun's Yukon Maruyama and Marty Itzkowitz have published an article that describes the profiling of Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications with the Sun Studio Performance Tools. It starts with a...


Demystifying Persistent OpenMP Myths - Part I (Ruud's Weblog)

    (Sat February 28 2009) Unfortunately, the September 5, 2008 blog titled "The OpenMP Concurrency Platform" written by Charles Leiserson from Cilk Arts repeats some of the persistent myths regarding ...


Andy Bechtolsheim to Keynote ISC'09, June 23 in Hamburg (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Sat February 28 2009) The ISC'09 International Supercomputing Conference has published their conference program, which will kick off with a keynote by Andreas Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems Co-Founder. Full Story...


Update: Workshops - Migrating from LSF to SGE & SGE Administration, March 17-18 (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Fri February 27 2009) Workshops: Migrating from LSF to SGE & SGE Administration March 17-18 Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara 5101 Great America Pkwy Santa Clara, CA 95054 Phone: 408.200.1234 Sign Up Now for Univa UD's March W...


Blog relocation (Chris Quenelle's Weblog)

    (Thu February 26 2009) This blog is moving to a new home.  Please give it a try.  The new site is using WordPress, and I'm still a WordPress newbie.  So if you have any WordPress tips or tricks, let me know. ...


Register Now: Lustre User Group, April 16-17 (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Thu February 26 2009) Register Now LUG09 - Seventh Annual Lustre User Group Meeting April 16-17, 2009 The Cavallo Point Lodge Sausalito, California Registration is now open for the Lustre User Group, the premier event f...


IBM avoiding system comparison (BM Seer)

    (Thu February 26 2009) I'm seeing more articles from IBM trying to get customers too look at wrong things! Shame, Shame. What customers would like to know about CMT vs IBM POWER6: How does system performance compare? How ...


SPECpower_ssj obscuring important factors? (BM Seer)

    (Wed February 25 2009) The disclosure reports to SPECpower_ssj need to be redesigned. It seems to violate many of Dr. Edward Tufte (author of "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"). For review, they are basical...


Sun and HP Expanded Partnership Agreement: Solaris (BM Seer)

    (Wed February 25 2009) More support for Solaris: February 25, 2009 - Sun and HP announced an expanded multi-year partnership agreement that enables HP to distribute and support Sun's Solaris 10 OS. The top five x86/x64 bas...


2 for 1: Sun's 2009 Matching Grant Program for Education (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Wed February 25 2009) As reported on Inside HPC, Sun is offering savings of up to 50 percent on their latest technology with the Matching Grant Program for Education: With the 2009 Sun Matching Grant Program, you can sav...


HPCVL, February 14-21, 2009 (Ruud's Weblog)

    (Sat February 21 2009) February 14-21 I was in Canada to give two classes on parallel programming at HPCVL. The first session was held at the HPCVL facilities in Kingston, ON. February 18 I travelled to Toronto, ON. The sec...


Moore's Outlaws (The Observation Deck)

    (Thu February 19 2009) My blog post eulogizing SPEC SFS has elicited quite a bit of reaction, much of it from researchers and industry observers who have drawn similar conclusions. While these responses were very positive,...


C++ and OpenMP runtime libraries in Solaris (Chris Quenelle's Weblog)

    (Thu February 19 2009) There is a set of runtime libraries that are maintained by the compiler team, and delivered to Solaris so they can be made available in /usr/lib on all Solaris systems. The ones most lik...


Dell now understands importance of server utilization (BM Seer)

    (Wed February 18 2009) Even Dell is starting to get it. Server utilisation levels in a data centre are critical to advance overall performance, improving productivity, and reducing costs. In: http://www.dell.com/downloads/...


Galaxy Zoo 2 - you can help by looking at lots of cool images (BM Seer)

    (Wed February 18 2009) At lunch a friend told me about the launch of Galaxy Zoo 2. Galaxy Zoo 2 is a project where you can help by looking at actual images of galaxies taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) robotic t...


T2 crypto paper (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Tue February 17 2009) A paper on the UltraSPARC T2 crypto hardware and the Solaris cryptographic framework will be presented at the upcoming International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering. Details on the worksh...


The seminar on "Combinatorial Scientific Computing" at Schloß Dagstuhl in Germany (Ruud's Weblog)

    (Tue February 17 2009) This seminar was held February 1-6, 2009, at Schloß Dagstuhl in Wadern, Germany. The Dagstuhl seminars are small scale events. Attendance is by invitation only. The goal is to not only exchange info...


Schloß Dagstuhl in Germany, February 1-6, 2009 (Ruud's Weblog)

    (Sun February 15 2009) I was very fortunate to be part of a seminar on "Combinatorial Science and Engineering" held February 1-6, 2009, at Schloß Dagstuhl in Wadern, Gemany. In this personal section of my blog I ...


Trading off Efficiency for the Sake of Flexibility (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Fri February 13 2009) One of the most important features of MySQL is the support for pluggable storage engines. Since users use MySQL in different ways, one storage engine may not fit everyone 's needs. There are lots of ...


Need Inodes ? (Bizarre ! Vous avez dit Bizarre ?)

    (Fri February 13 2009) It seems that some old school filesystem still need to statically allocate inodes to hold pointers to individual files. Normally this should not cause too much problems as default settings account fo...


Chief Governance Officer for Cloud Computing (fintanr's weblog)

    (Wed February 11 2009) At Sun we take privacy very seriously, its an area which Michelle Dennedy lead as our Chief Information Strategy & Privacy Officer. Anyway Michelle announced yesterday that she is taking on a n...


OK - where do I start if I need to tune GlassFish? (Kim LiChong's blog)

    (Tue February 10 2009) Scenario: The hot new application you have deployed on GlassFish is expected to garner multitude of users who are going to hammer away at your application. Where do you start to optimize your perfo...


MySQL and UFS (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Mon February 9 2009) UFS has been the main filesystem on Solaris until the arrival of ZFS in 2004. UFS has been around since the SunOS 4.x days and is still quite widely used on Solaris. Although OpenSolaris uses ZFS by ...


bad benchmarks and other stories (fintanr's weblog)

    (Mon February 2 2009) I luckily managed to avoid having to deal with Spec-SFS during my days in performance, Bryan Cantrill has written a very nice eulogy for a benchmark. Well worth a read....


Eulogy for a benchmark (The Observation Deck)

    (Mon February 2 2009) I come to bury SPEC SFS, not to praise it. When we at Fishworks set out, our goal was to build a product that would disrupt the enterprise NAS market with revolutionary price/performance. Based on ...


Connector/J 5.0 to 5.1 gotcha (fintanr's weblog)

    (Mon January 26 2009) I moved a dev environment a little while back, and one of the gotchas I hit was a minor change between MySQL Connector/J 5.0 and 5.1. The support for select x as y type syntax is not actually valid u...


Irish Open Solaris Groups Meetup (fintanr's weblog)

    (Thu January 22 2009) Tim sent an announcement out yesterday to on the 18th IE-OSUG meeting, 7:30 PM @ The Vaults next Thursday Jan 29th. For those interested in hearing about my adventures in mac book land, be it with O...


The Hunter becomes the Hunted (The Observation Deck)

    (Thu January 22 2009) I recently came into a copy of Dave Hitz's new book How to Castrate a Bull. A full review is to come, but I couldn't wait to serve up one delicious bit of irony. Among the book's many unintentionall...


[crosspost A bit of trad part something or other] (fintanr's weblog)

    (Sat January 10 2009) Crosspost from my personal blog, but its worthwhile... Now honestly not everyone is related to an album releasing trad musician, but one of my colleagues just pointed me at his sister Orla Harringt...


command-not-found for OpenSolaris? (Chris Quenelle's Weblog)

    (Thu January 8 2009) Ubuntu has a cool feature where they publish an index of all the binaries on the system, and the package that each one belongs to.  When you combine this with the bash command-not-found hook, you...


Catching disk latency in the act (The Observation Deck)

    (Wed December 31 2008) Today, Brendan made a very interesting discovery about the potential sources of disk latency in the datacenter. Here's a video we made of Brendan explaining (and demonstrating) his discovery: ...


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