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July 22, 2014 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
July 15, 2014 at HPC's AFter School Special (ORIGINAL)

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

June 4, 2014 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
May 28, 2014 at Leverage Big Data 2014: HPC Has a New BFF (ORIGINAL)

Leveraging Big Data 2014: HPC Has a New BFF

Leveraging Big Data 2014: HPC Has a New BFF

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Leverage Big Data conference put on by Tabor Communications. Following a non-traditional conference format, this conference brings together a curated, cross-disciplinary industry leaders, executives and vendors for several days packed full of keynotes, panels, assigned “boardroom” case study discussions, one-on-one meetings and social events. The result […]

Filed Under: Big Data, HPC Tagged With: bff, Big Data, Bob Cratchit, CDC, Cloud, confirmation bias, data, data overload, false correlation, flu, Gartner, Google, help wanted, HPC, hype cycle, Leverage Big Data, nomenclature, people, Pokémon, Scrooge, Simpson's Paradox, Tabor Communications, talent shortage

April 18, 2014 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
April 11, 2014 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

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

March 10, 2014 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
March 3, 2014 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

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

February 25, 2014 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
February 18, 2014 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

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

February 21, 2014 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
February 14, 2014 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

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

November 29, 2013 by Trev Harmon 1 Comment (REPOST)
November 22, 2013 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

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

November 19, 2013 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
November 12, 2013 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

HPC Evolved

HPC Evolved
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series SC13

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series SC13In 1966 with little fanfare, Douglas F. Parkhill published a book outlining “[a]lmost all of the modern-day characteristics of cloud computing (elastic provision, provided as a utility, online, illusion of infinite supply)”.1 This book, The Challenge of the Computer Utility, published nearly a half-century ago, […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cloud, HPC Tagged With: administrator, Apache, bespoke, Big Data, bridges, Catalyst, Cloud, custom, Douglas F. Parkhill, exhibitor forum, future, HPC, HPC Cloud, LLNL, perspective, SC, technical computing, The Challenge of the Computer Utility, tools, YARN

May 21, 2013 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment (REPOST)
May 21, 2013 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

Formula 1 and HPC

Formula 1 and HPC

you: Yes, yes, we know. The F1 guys use HPC to model their cars. Old news. me: True, but that isn’t my point. you: It’s not? me: No. This is more about how HPC is like Formula 1. you: Because it’s *fast* right? 🙂 me: Umm… No… you: 🙁 Alright Mr. Hoity-Toity Smarty-Pants, what’s your […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Anish Kapoor, Cloud, community, F1, Formula 1, HPC, NASCAR, Olympics, scheduling, Steven Redhead, technology spillover, World Cup

April 9, 2013 by Trev Harmon 2 Comments (REPOST)
April 2, 2013 at Adaptive Computing (ORIGINAL)

Customizable vs. Bespoke – Why HPC Cloud Struggles

Customizable vs. Bespoke – Why HPC Cloud Struggles

It was the late 18th century, and man was harnessing the power of steam. The Industrial Revolution was underway, a movement that would forever change the face of the earth for both good and bad. In the middle of this cataclysmic change, an invention was born that would inspire Charles Babbage‘s Analytical Engine, the forerunner of modern […]

Filed Under: Cloud, HPC Tagged With: Analytical Engine, bespoke, BOINC, Charles Babbage, Cloud, COTS, custom, Debbie Allen, Henry Ford, HPC, HPC Cloud, Industrial Revolution, Jacquard loom, Moab

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