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The UberCloud Experiment Shows Why #HPCmatters

The UberCloud Experiment Shows Why #HPCmatters
This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series #HPCmatters

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series #HPCmattersEvery year when we gather for SC, we wait with bated breath for the announcement of the next Top500 list. It’s our own little celebration of the ever-growing size and power of the high-end supercomputers. We use these systems to answer some of the most […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: community, HPC, HPCmatters, Pong, Top500, UberCloud Experiment

Siri and the Machine, or the Future of HPC

Siri and the Machine, or the Future of HPC
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series #HPCmatters

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series #HPCmattersI was sitting in my hotel room this morning, working on my laptop. Given that it was just me, I thought a little music would be nice. Picking up my iPhone, I flicked it on and held down the button to summon Siri to ask […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Beverly Crusher, E. M. Forester, future, gelato, handheld devices, HPC, HPCmatters, Internet of Things, LibriVox.org, London, NCSA, perspective, SC, Siri, Star Trek, The Machine Stops

The Five Credentials of Moab

The Five Credentials of Moab

Central to much of what Moab does is the concept of credentials. Credentials play a pivotal role in how many policies are not only defined, but actually carried out by the scheduler. They define how and by whom the system is accessed and used. One could even say they are at the heart of scheduler […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: access control, account, class, credentials, group, HPC, Moab, ownership, policies, qos, TORQUE, user

Perspectives and Personas

Perspectives and Personas
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series #HPCmatters

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series #HPCmattersRight now I am in India, a land of beauty filled with wonderful people. It has been said India is an assault on all of your senses, I believe that is true. The colors, sounds, flavors and smells exude the essence of foreign and exotic […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business, Cloud, HPC Tagged With: administrator, developer, engineering, growth, HPC, HPCmatters, human, India, people, persona, perspective, Ralph Waldo Emerson

HPC’s After School Special

HPC’s After School Special

Between ISC and HP-CAST (held Friday and Saturday this year), I had several speaking opportunities, wherein I mostly talked about our release of Moab 8.0, and the many new features and improvements it provides to our customers. However, participating as one of the panelists on Disruptive Technologies, I had the opportunity to discuss where I […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cloud, HPC Tagged With: ARM, Big Data, Cloud, community, D-Wave, future, GPU, HP-CAST, HPC, HPC Cloud, ISC, quantum computing, technical computing

MoabCon 2014: You Should Have Been There

MoabCon 2014: You Should Have Been There

Hopefully, you were one of the many people who attended MoabCon this year in beautiful Park City, Utah. If you weren’t, there’s really only one thing I can say, You really missed out. Really, you did. It was a wonderful few days filled with inspiring stories, new innovations, exciting futures, good friends and, of course, […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Big Data, Bohemian Rhapsody, Cloud, HPC, HPC Cloud, Jason Bucholtz, karaoke, Matt Britt, Moab, Moab Task Manager, MoabCon, Nitro, party, Queen, TORQUE, Troy Baer

Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part III

Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part III
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Understanding Moab Scheduling

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Understanding Moab SchedulingIn the final installment of this series, I’m going to give two step-by-step examples of how Moab actually schedules jobs. The first will show a fairly standard scenario, while the second will include preemption. If you don’t recall how the Moab scheduling cycle […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: backfill, Cloud, HPC, job, Moab, preemption, qos, reservations, scheduling, scheduling cycle, workload

Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part II

Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part II
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Understanding Moab Scheduling

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Understanding Moab SchedulingWhy is the system slow? In Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part I, I discussed the Moab scheduling iteration and the different stages it passes through. Today, we are going to look at answering the above question by learning about the command that allows the […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Cloud, G.I. Joe, HPC, iteration, licensing, mdiag, Moab, poll interval, requests, reservations, resource managers, scheduling, scheduling cycle, statistics, triggers

Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part I

Understanding Moab Scheduling: Part I
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Understanding Moab Scheduling

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Understanding Moab SchedulingWith MoabCon, Adaptive Computing’s yearly user conference, just around the corner, I thought I’d revisit the subject of a well-received talk I gave two years ago at the conference. This will be done in three parts covering the Moab scheduling cycle, the proper […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Cloud, components, credentials, geometry check, HPC, iteration, Moab, optimize, ordering, policy check, poll interval, requests, reservations, resource managers, scheduling, scheduling cycle, sort, statistics, sub-components, weight, workload

SC13: HPC Evolving

SC13: HPC Evolving
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series SC13

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series SC13As I mentioned last week, this afternoon I was able to speak to a wonderful audience at the SC13 Exhibitor Forum. This particular track at the conference is rather interesting, as it really is put on as an opportunity for vendors to pretty much brag […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Big Data, Cloud, convergence, Counting Crows, Douglas F. Parkhill, exascale, exhibitor forum, Hadoop, HPC, HPC Cloud, Mrs. Potters Lullaby, MTBF, petascale, SC, technical computing, The Challenge of the Computer Utility, workflow

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