2013 GlobusWorld Talk

I am one of the speakers this year at GlobusWorld at Argonne April 16th-18th.

"Wishing on Wavelengths" -- The Dreams and Desires of a Centralized HPC Provider.

Space, Speed, Security:  the three S's for approaching centralized research storage.  Centralized resource providers at research institutions are faced with handling larger quantities of research data, forcing new approaches in management of petascale filesystems and backups.  These larger data requirements necessitate the creation/adoption/support of user-friendly transport methods that perform better than traditional tools, while maintaining higher levels of security (for authentication and client connections) to manage growing quantities of restricted data.

HP Eco Pod First Gear

Modular data centers are becoming more common. What started as modified shipping containers have no turned into complex prefabricated buildings in multiple parts assembled on site.

I recently had the joy of being involved with moving 6000 cores and 1/2PB of disk from a traditional data center, to an HP Eco Pod (now just HP POD 240a). The promise was lower cost to build, lower cost to cool, less time to deploy etc. Pictures after the break.

Linux Admin Job

Job posting at CAEN HPC where I work, no HPC experience needed (Ignore that in the posting). If you have managed a number of Linux hosts in a scalable automated manner, even if you are self taught, we want to hear from you: http://umjobs.org/job_detail/76182/os_programmer_intermediate

SC12 Salt Lake City

I will be at SC12 in Salt Lake. I will be floating around, and I will be watching my Twitter. If you want to get a hold of me that is where you should ping me. See you all there!

Job Posting at Michigan

Want to work with me at CAEN HPC? Want to work on the Flux Project?  We have a job posting in our group.

Apply Online: posting 76182.

Cyberinfrastructure Days

The 2012 Cyberinfrastructure Days will be November 7th and 8th. Registration is free.

I will be leading the"Advanced Computing on a Shoestring" session 2:30-3:15 on Thursday, though I will be at the entire event answering any XSEDE, Flux or other HPC questions.

When working with a limited budget, researchers who are interested in bringing a large amount of computing resources to bear on their work can find their options limited. In this session we will discuss a number of options for free or low cost computing resources for researchers. We will also discuss methods for getting the most out of your available resources. No prior advanced computing experience assumed.

I hope to see you at Michigan CI Days 2012.

Blue Waters for GLCPC Members

I recently was asked to note that applications for the Blue Waters machine for Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) are open and due October 31st (Halloween Cycles!).

This is great option to get Blue Waters cycles for smaller users.  This is kinda tongue in cheek as "small" is 5 million core hours.  Given that normal Blue Waters allocations are much larger this is a small large scale user.

See the notice below:

I am writing to you as President of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation to bring your attention to a call for proposals for GLCPC allocated computer hours on the new Blue Waters Machine.  As a member of the GLCPC, faculty at your institution are eligible to apply for an allocation of time reserved by NCSA for member institutions.  As XSEDE Campus Champions, I believe you may know faculty that are interested in this opportunity.

The call for proposals can be found at http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/bluewaters.html.

I would appreciate it if you could forward this information to the faculty on your campus that might be interested in submitting proposals for this unique opportunity.

 If you are a University of Michigan reader and want more information contact me at CAEN Advanced Computing.