Plexxi Gets Involved with Data Center Pod Architecture
Aligned Data Centers is using all of Plexxi's main products.
Alibaba Recruits Microsoft Big Data Expert For AliCloud
He used to work in Microsoft's Bing Search group.
Complexity – My Friend, My Enemy
Over my years of network engineering, I've learned that the fewer features you can implement while still achieving a business goal, the better. Why? Fewer features mean fewer things that can potentially go wrong. The less that goes wrong, the higher the network uptime.Worth Reading: What’s the deal with online journalism?
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Datanauts 041: The Value Of GitHub For Operations
The Datanauts talk about why and how operations folks can take advantage of Git and GitHub, share tips, and explore why they arent just for developers. The post Datanauts 041: The Value Of GitHub For Operations appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Dreaming Of 100 Exaflops In 2030
The supercomputing industry is as insatiable as it is dreamy. We have not even reached our ambitions of hitting the exascale level of performance in a single system by the end of this decade, and we are stretching our vision out to the far future and wondering how the capacity of our largest machines will scale by many orders of magnitude more.
Dreaming is the foundation of the technology industry, and supercomputing has always been where the most REM action takes place among the best and brightest minds in computing, storage, and networking – as it should be. But to …
Dreaming Of 100 Exaflops In 2030 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Short Cuts
It was going to be a long evening, anyway—the flight check bird was coming in, and both Instrument Landing Systems (ILSs) needed to be tuned up and ready for the test. So we took some downtime, split into two teams, and worked our way through each piece of equipment—Localizer, Glide Slope, each marker in turn, VOR, TACAN—to make certain each was, as far as we could measure, sending the right signals to the right places. If flight check found even the smallest variance off what the ILS systems were supposed to be providing, they could shut the airfield down “until further notice.”
The team I was on was driving across one of the many roads out on the airfield, trying to catch up with the other half of the shop to find out what they had done, and what needed to be done. Off in the distance, we noted someone standing in the middle of a field between the roads, waving vigorously. We changed direction, driving across the bumpy field, through grass as high as the top of the hood (Base Ops was planning a burn, so they’d left the grass to grow a bit higher than normal). As Continue reading
In Situ Analysis to Push Supercomputing Efficiency
As supercomputers expand in terms of processing, storage, and network capabilities, the size and scope of simulations is also expanding outward. While this is great news for scientific progress, this naturally creates some new bottlenecks, particularly on the analysis and visualization fronts.
Historically, most large-scale simulations would dump time step and other data at defined intervals onto disk for post-processing and visualization, but as the petabyte scale of that process adds more weight, that is becoming less practical. Further, for those who know what they want to find in that data, using an in situ approach to finding the answer …
In Situ Analysis to Push Supercomputing Efficiency was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
New Blog: Route-SPF
Johnny Britt has started blogging over at route-spf.net (I guess he’s just going to write about link state… 
). He’s just put his first post up, linked below. This one is worth watching for good material.
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