[lug] BLUG Meeting Announcement 2012-11-08

[Davide Del Vento]

Thanks I'm glad you liked it.
If you are interested in the latest and greatest of that kind of
stuff, this it's SC12 week, check the announcements on sites like
http://www.hpcwire.com/ (e.g. Intel has released the MIC to the
public, calling it "Xeon Phi Coprocessors").
The top500 list also got an update, and Yellowstone ended up at the 13
position. There are only other two systems like it in the top100 (in
Germany and Spain) in peer supercomputing centers. The vendor made 3
more, but they sold them to DoD, which I'll bet would be very
secretive, so the bottom line "Google can't help with the issues we
encounter" stands.
Cheers,
Davide

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Jose Luis Salas
<joseluis.salas09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Dave it was a great presentation.
>
> Best Regards!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Davide Del Vento
> <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>> as promised here are the slides of my talk. ODPs are easier to
>> cut-and-paste, have vector graphics and high resolution jpgs etc. If
>> you only care about the links, PDFs are much lighter and more portable
>> (as the name says :-)
>> Other than that, they are the same.
>>
>> This year talk:
>> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/Yellowstone.pdf 3.1MB
>> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/Yellowstone.odp 7.2MB
>>
>> 2009 talk (I couldn't find it anywhere else on the web):
>> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/supercomputing.pdf 5.7MB
>> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/supercomputing.odp 8.1MB
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions!
>> Davide
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Boulder Linux <boulderlinux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     http://lug.boulder.co.us/calendar.html
>> >
>> > The November Boulder Linux User Group meeting is coming up.
>> >
>> >    Talk : Yellowstone, the New Linux-based supercomputer at NCAR.
>> >
>> > Speaker : David Del Vento
>> >
>> >    When : 7:15 p.m. on Thu, Nov 08, 2012
>> >
>> >   Where : Applied Trust, 1033 Walnut St, Bulder, CO 80302
>> >
>> >           Applied Trust is on Walnut Street in downtown Boulder. It is
>> >           the door just west of Amante Coffee.
>> >
>> >     Map : http://lug.boulder.co.us/meetings.html
>> >
>> > Parking : Parking on the street is free after 7pm and there are 2 public
>> >           garages on Walnut at $1.25/hour and bike parking on the
>> > sidewalk
>> >           in front of the office.
>> >
>> >     Bus : Less than 2 blocks from Broadway which is served by the Skip
>> > busses.
>> >           Less than 4 blocks from the Boulder Transit Center which
>> > serves
>> >           almost all routes.
>> >
>> >
>> > Summary of 'Yellowstone, the New Linux-based supercomputer at NCAR.'
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Yellowstone is the latest NCAR's supercomputer and it marks many changes
>> > for supercomputing at NCAR. As always it's the largest machine to date
>> > to
>> > be deployed at NCAR, but it's using "commodity technology" such as x86
>> > processors and Linux which are unusual entries for supercomputing at
>> > NCAR.
>> > Of course a supercomputer can't be "just" commodity, so there are many
>> > hardware and software tricks that Yellowstone has in its sleeves, and
>> > that
>> > this talk will unveil some. Four software "tricks" may be useful to
>> > normal
>> > Linux deployment, so you may learn something good to know even if you
>> > don't run a supercomputer. The building accommodating the machine is
>> > also
>> > brand new, and using the latest and greatest technology itself, so I
>> > will
>> > describe them too.
>> >
>> >
>> > Pre meeting food
>> > ----------------
>> >
>> > Food will be available at the meeting location, so please show up around
>> > 6:45 pm
>> > and join us for a bite to eat. We'll start the meeting about 7:15.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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> Jose Luis Salas
> CompTIA Linux+ Certified
>
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