On January 9th 2013 CSCS participated in the RSI RETE UNO radio program “Millevoci” to discuss the future of internet. Nicola Colotti invited CSCS associate director Michele De Lorenzi and two experts of new technologies, communication and internet Paolo Attivissimo and Alessandro Longo to try to answer questions such as “are computers going to to develop [...]
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the 4th HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2013. The conference will update attendees on the progress of Exascale in the European Union [...]
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
CSCS evaluated two PCIe attached SSD devices manufactured by Texas Memory Systems in terms of I/O bandwidth and IOPs. One of them is the recently launched “RamSan-70 Gorilla” card designed by Texas Memory Systems. This new card delivered the highest IOPS value ever measured at CSCS. In June 2011 CSCS already presented performance numbers for [...]
