Posted in HPC, MPI on November 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Yes, still stuck in Rainland. This year’s SC was the best I ever attended to be honest. It felt like I know everybody and I was invited to two to three parties every evening (awesome). My work was presented at the MPI Forum BoF and the FASTOS BoF. I was also invited to present parts [...]
Posted in HPC, MPI, Science on November 15th, 2009 No Comments »
They should have called the place “Rainland” but ok, I brought an umbrella .
This week’s MPI Forum was very interesting! Marc Snir presented his convincing hybrid proposal. It’s really nice and orthogonal to the current standard. It needs some minor polishing and an implementation and seems ready to go.
We had some incremental discussions [...]
Posted in HPC, Science on November 8th, 2009 No Comments »
I finally finished a page where I put some topology maps of some of today’s supercomputers: http://www.unixer.de/research/topologies/. It has no real purpose, but it’s pretty! I hope you like it . Please let me know if you have a large system or know admins who are willing to donate topologies for my collection — [...]
Posted in HPC on November 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’ve been at the inauguration (dedication ceremony) of the new $32 Mio datacenter. I have to say this building is impressive for a data center and reminds me of my times in the German army. I think everybody would agree to call it “the bunker”. It is designed to withstand an F5 tornado, but it [...]