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 [...]
Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Infrastructure for HPC to be held on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by Empa. Here below you find a description of the forum and a few key questions as guideline [...]
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 [...]
Sustainability is an important not only for ICT in general but also for HPC. Next year Zurich will host an important conference about ICT for Sustainability. If you are interested in contributing to the conference, then now it is time to submit your papers. ICT for sustainability is about utilizing the transformational power of Information [...]