ISC’13 will the feature second HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Challenge as an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. The competition will feature small teams that compete to demonstrate the incredible capabilities of state-of- the-art high-performance cluster hardware and software. In a real-time challenge, teams of six undergraduate and/or high school students [...]
John Biddiscombe and Jerome Soumagne presented at the last HPC Advisory Council workshop in Lugano techniques for data staging for in-situ processing and parallel IO/Coupling of HPC applications: Parallel IO is used by HPC applications to quickly export data to disk, but the time/space taken to save and reload the results for post-processing is often [...]
Hussein N. Harake presented at the HPC Advisory Council in Lugano how CSCS is moving without service disruption data from the old location in Manno to a new building in Lugano. Both locations are a few kilometers kilometers away from each other. To to this CSCS is running GPFS over Obsidian LongBow. Introduction: Move from [...]
Stefano Gorini (CSCS) presented at the HPC Advisory Council in Lugano the storage of CSCS based on a GPFS / HSM solution. The GPFS filesystem at CSCS QFS/SAM-FS to GPFS TSM Migration Data topology (file size range as a function of last access time) TSM/HSM Open issues Future plans (please apologize for the low audio [...]
At the last HPC Advisory Council Workshop in Lugano Hussein N. Harake presented how the storage disaster recovery is implemented at CSCS based on HSM solution of IBM. Contents: Overview of CSCS resources Disaster Recovery Requirements Data & File Systems Archiving and Backup Solution Backup & Restore The challenging part
